Five winning stories will be selected by a panel of judges, and the winning entrants will each receive an Amazon Kindle 2 as well as Dragon NaturallySpeaking upgrades for three years.
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Dragon Naturally Speaking has absolutely changed my life! I am what you might call a cyber professor, I teach Humanities and Anthropology to students around the world entirely online. In order to make a living this way, I have to teach a lot of classes. With the volume of students I teach, I read a lot of e-mails, grade a lot of papers, and facilitate many discussion boards every week. When my classroom-based colleagues ask me what my secret is, I tell them quite simply that it is Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Dragon allows me to effectively and efficiently provide my students with the attention and feedback they deserve. It works with all of my learning management systems, and I can navigate the web with ease. Of course, Dragon Naturally Speaking has been invaluable in preparing manuscripts and articles for publication. If my coursework were not made so much easier by Dragon, I would hardly have time to do any publishing at all.
But Dragon Naturally Speaking, for me, is not just about doing my job faster and better, it is about promoting a new kind of academic lifestyle, one where the classroom is the world for both my students and myself. I would estimate that since I started using Dragon NaturallySpeaking I have seen my income go up by at least a third, my stress levels have dropped dramatically, and best of all my students get better, fresher feedback. I am able to earn a decent living in an academic job market that has left many of my colleagues under employed and with little hope. In addition, I can work from where ever I want, and enjoy a great deal of mobility. Dragon NaturallySpeaking allows me to confidently promote the viability of online teaching to people who may otherwise fear dim prospects of employment in today's tough job market.