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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Use Penn State E-mail for Turnitin, on the...

We want to remind students and instructors to always use their official Penn State e-mail for their Turnitin account. Penn State e-mails include your Access Account userid plus “psu.edu (e.g....

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Random Word Accessibility Tips, on the site...

There are lots of standard strategies for making more accessible Word files, but even so I have learned some new tricks this week. Tip 1: Right Click to Modify Heading Styles Using heading styles in...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, , on the site EJP10s Pop Life

Sometimes, it’s hard to understand how a new medium fully functions

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Just curious if anyone has tried to use...,...

Just curious if anyone has tried to use embedded fonts in their CSS. I am trying to link to fonts on PASS space. I think the code is correct, but the font is not changing. Would it be allowed?

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Elizabeth Pyatt commented on the post, Just curious if anyone has tried to...

This fix worked – thanks. FYI – The fonts I needed to embed contain foreign language characters, so I’m glad this worked.

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Embedded Fonts htaccess Update, on the site...

htaccess Fix Since Penn State just rolled out its Word Press service, I thought I experiment with font embedding with SIL webfont kits I uploaded into one of my directories on another server. The good...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, OK I'm back with the embedded font...

OK I’m back with the embedded font question. I am able to get the embedded fonts to work on Chrome, Safari and IE, but Firefox is still a problem. Is there any fix for that? I had the embedded fonts...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Hello world /hɛlo wrld/, on the site A...

Now with Gentium Font power

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Turnitin GradeMark Used in Penn State Law...

This week, Teaching and Learning with Technology group published an interview with Nicole Chong and Michelle Vollmer of the Dickinson Law School about their use of Turnitin Grademark, particularly the...

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Elizabeth Pyatt commented on the post, OK I'm back with the embedded font...

The site in question is https://sites.psu.edu/wildlinguist/. It looks like Firefox/Mac isn’t working with embedded Google fonts either. Would it be possible to upload font files or approved font files...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Pronunciation Observations from PBS Latino...

I’ve been watching the PBS series Latino Americans and of course paid close attention to the Spanish language. So my main observations were: Code Switched Pronunciation The narrator generally spoke...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Turnitin Seminar Video Posted, on the site...

Instructors interested in learning more about Turnitin can view the video Introducing Turnitin recorded at a recent ITS Training Seminar.

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Turnitin Cloud Submit Allows Some Uploads...

The Turnitin service now includes the ability for students and instructors to upload documents from either their Google Drive or Dropbox accounts. Which Documents? Any Google Drive document that a...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Accessibility Workflow in Higher Ed vs...

We’ve been trying out a few products to accessify documents, particularly PDF documents. We have to admit the products work and the vendors are very supportive, but I have been struck at how vendors...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Analyzing Facebook Posts, on the site A...

The MIT Technology Review published an article about a Penn study analyzing Facebook posts to find correlations betweeen words/phrases and your demographic and personality profile. The actual study is...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Coming Soon, on the site Accessibility at...

Our site in WordPress

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Unauthorized!, on the site Triads on Corgis...

A triad is a type of text found in Middle Welsh and Old Irish in which knowledge is organized into groups of three in a single category. Below are some sample of triads from the Llyfr Coch Hergest (Red...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Turnitin Now Accepts PowerPoint, on the...

As of November 19, 2013 students can upload PowerPoint documents into Turnitin course assignments. The files will be converted to PDF but can submitted to the Originality Report and marked up with the...

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Coming Soon, on the site SCOLA

A revised version of the SCOLA site may come here soon Current information is at http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/scola/

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Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Descriptive vs Prescriptive Standards, on...

Descriptive and Prescriptive Grammars A useful distinction linguists make in describing grammars is “prescriptive” vs. “descriptive” grammars. Simply put, the difference is the prescriptive grammar is...

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