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Engage Audiences with Gamification
RunRev CEO looks at the uses of multimedia and mini-games to enliven apps in business, education and the boardroom.

Gamification

When I attended the Campus Technology conference in Boston this summer, I was struck by the many technology challenges facing educators. The generation gap between teachers and students has never been wider. Students these days are used to interacting with video games and interactive social media, rather than the more traditional passive media, such as the TV or even books. Smartphones and handheld devices are brought into the classroom by the overwhelming majority of students, and these often represent a further challenge to educators trying to keep students focused on the subject they are trying to teach.

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Tips and tricks from RunRev forums

Recursive hamsters, rename your new buttons, or learn how to dig out info about variables within variables... just a tiny sample of the wisdom available on the RunRev community forums. Join in and share the love.

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RR Sponsors MacTech

Get a special deal on passes to MacTech in November, courtesy of RunRev. We'll be exhibiting there and have secured a discount for customers booking via our purchase link.

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Convert data into an array

Converting tab delimited data to an array can be confusing at first. Read about a few ways one could go about it, including reordering of tabular data, simple two row tables and a complex example.

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