Category: Academia
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Reading journal articles
One of the most frequent tasks given to undergraduate and graduate students is reading or critiquing research articles. Often, you will be tasked with reading more than one paper at a time, so having a technique for quickly reading and understanding the article is of paramount importance. My mentor, Dr. Abesamis, gave us some tips…
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Zotero Highlighting Colors
Many of us want to capture important information when reading research articles. Doing this on paper is straightforward; you take a highlighter pen and annotate manually. However, in today’s digital age, we often read electronic versions of journal articles using digital devices (e.g., tablets, laptops, e-readers). Extracting information from these articles and organizing them can…
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What is “blue carbon”?
Blue carbon is carbon that is stored and captured by the oceans. The ocean is a significant carbon sink of our planet. Blue carbon ecosystems are the coastal habitats like mangroves, seagrass meadows, and tidal marshes that play a vital role in capturing CO2 in the atmosphere. CO2 is incorporated in autotrophic biomass and moved…
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Text to Speech
Adding audio narration is now essential to deliver content for consumption (e.g., eLearning materials and audio guides). In this post, I introduce you to some of the easiest ways to generate audio narrations, i.e., from text to speech. Here are some of the easy-to-use free tools that can generate decent-sounding audio from text: Based on…