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The NCTI web site offers a wealth of information and tools that highlight challenges, opportunities and solutions for learning and assistive technology researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs. It is also the hub, a connecting point, for our community. This section provides an overview of the site, explains how its features can help you, and offers instruction for how to use them.

Getting Around

You can access the main features of the NCTI web site from links on its masthead, which appears on every page. Think of it as a control panel that enables you to navigate between our products, services, events and more.

You can access primary areas of the site from the main navigation menu.

The site map, below, describes what you will find in each section of the site:

Home Page
Our home page offers the latest news and information from NCTI. Visit often to learn about upcoming events, tools,  videos and stories about successful learning and assistive technology innovators.

About
Find out about NCTI’s mission, work, Advisory Board, and thought partners.

Products
Browse through a collection of NCTI-authored publications, products and tools to support members of our community working on innovative learning solutions for individuals with special needs.

Services
Learn about our services for researchers, product developers and entrepreneurs.

Events
Find out about events and funding opportunities specifically in the field of learning and assistive technology.

Trends and Topics
Explore the latest trends in technology and learn about topics of importance to learning and assistive technology innovators.

Press Room
Read about NCTI activities reported in the press. If you are writing a story, find out how to contact us.

Help
Learn more about our web site and its features. The Help section will help you make the most of your visit here.

What You Can Do Here

The NCTI web site is more than a place to come for information. It is a place learn from others and share your own expertise and perspectives. To support a culture of interactivity, inside our community and beyond, we have integrated a set of tools that you can use to flag useful content, share your discoveries with others, ask questions and tell us what you think. Some tools are available to all visitors. Others are accessible only to community members. Membership in our online community is totally free and all tools are free.  Join by clicking here.

Look for the following tools around the site:

Comments

On many of the posts within the NCTI site, we invite you to leave comments, respond to a burning question, or weigh in on a topic of common concern. Look for an opportunity to share you perspectives at the bottom of these pages.Visit the Comments hep page  to learn more about this function.

Social Bookmarks

Social Bookmarking provides a tool for storing, organizing, searching, and managing links to web pages you visit. If you subscribe to a social bookmarking service such as del.icio.us or Digg, you can use NCTI’s bookmarking function to  flag web pages and blog posts that you find useful or interesting, and access them from a computer almost anywhere.  Using social bookmarks, the links you save help others by adding to a web-wide catalog of useful links by topic.  If you prefer to use the traditional bookmarking function provided by your browser, you can do that too.  Visit the social bookmarks help page to learn more about this feature.

Send To Colleague

When you run across content that intrigues, inspires or informs you, or if you find a funding opportunity or story that you want to share with a colleague, our Send To A Colleague function can help.   Sending a link from our site is as easy as entering an email address, then clicking the send button. Visit the Send Page to Colleague help page to learn more about this feature.

Page Ratings

Content ratings help everyone in NCTI’s online community to find the best content quickly, and provide information to NCTI staff for improving the web site.  Look at the number of stars to see how others have rated the contents of a page.  NCTI online community members can guide others toward the best available ideas by rating content.   Visit the Content Ratings help page to learn more about this function.

Subscriptions

Instead of checking the NCTI web site for new information on a topic or trend of interest, you can have the updates come to you by subscribing to it using RSS (Really Simple Syndication).  If you have software capable of reading RSS feeds (MS Outlook 2007 does, for example), or belong to a web site like Feedburner, keeping tabs on the latest NCTI content is really simple.  Visit the Subscriptions help page to learn more about this function.