Dr. Rankin, professor of History at UT Dallas, a forward-thinking professor open to the intelligent use of new media...

• wanted to know how to reach more students and involve more people in class discussions both in and out of the classroom;

• had heard of Twitter...

• collaborated with the UT Dallas, Arts and Technology - Emerging Media and Communications (EMAC) http://www.emac.utdallas.edu faculty

Watch the interesting video clip that was created at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WPVW...

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pdfs are one of the most popular document formats as, regardless of platform (apple, windows, lynux etc.), they can be accessed using free pdf readers.

However securing pdfs is not that easy. Learning providers (especially smaller ones), practitioners and learners alike, won't want to purchase the relatively expensive Adobe Acrobat software just to encrypt their documents; so this is where PDFProtect comes in.

PDFProtect is a free online tool that lets users easily password protect PDF...