education/learning

FacebookTwitter
more education

It’s a new year, and the beginning of a new semester in school. Students who didn’t do so hot last year have probably made a New Year resolution to improve their grades. To help you all with the next semester, I’ve decided to make a list of extremely helpful web tools that will make school easier for all the struggling students out there.

10+ Web Tools To Save Your Butt In School

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-web-tools-to-save-your-butt-in-school/
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/journalism/sources.html

Journalism-Research Tools-The Library

Use these research tools to find information related to Journalism from sources such as scholarly articles, books and encyclopedias. Archival Collections and Primary Sources

150 Free Textbooks: A Meta Collection

http://www.openculture.com/free_textbooks Try Audible Now and Get A FREE Audio Book! Free textbooks (aka open textbooks) written by knowledgable scholars are a relatively new phenomenon.
If you've never truly considered writing a book, take another look at the rubbish filling bookshelves at airport kiosks. http://www.soyouwanna.com/soyouwanna-publish-book-1093.html

publish a book?

http://www.nerdparadise.com/litcomp/silly/20pagepaper/ Posted on: 10 Cado 7:0 - 5.27.29 So you've procrastinated again.

Nerd Paradise : How to Write a 20 Page Research Paper in Under a Day

History Teachers Turn Pop Songs Into the Coolest Visual Lessons Ever

http://gawker.com/5703727/history-teachers-turn-pop-songs-into-the-coolest-visual-lessons-ever Two Hawaiian teachers have taken a new approach to teaching their students by reworking lyrics to popular songs by artists like Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, Gwen Stefani and more into some seriously cool visual history lessons ever.

Education Article :: 100+ Google Tricks for Teachers

It's Google's world, we're just teaching in it. http://www.teachhub.com/100-google-tricks-teachers

BEGINNER'S GUIDE ...

http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~schmitzr/bgz.htm © 1995 Dharman Craig PressonAll Rights Reserved
http://www.highexistence.com/positive-psychology/

Positive Psychology: Analyzing Happy People

For centuries, psychology has done one thing: attempted to fix the unhealthy, depressed and insane.
http://www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooks Try Audible Now and Get A FREE Audiobook! Download hundreds of free audio books, mostly classics, to your MP3 player or computer.

Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free

Intelligent people have unnatural preferences and values that are novel in human evolution

March 29, 2013 1:38 pm | A specially-adapted “tactile helmet”, developed by researchers at the University of Sheffield, could provide fire-fighters operating in challenging conditions with vital clues about their surroundings. The helmet is fitted with a number of ultrasound sensors that are used to detect the distances between the helmet and nearby walls or other obstacles. These signals are transmitted to vibration pads that are attached to the inside of the helmet, touching the wearer's forehead. March 29, 2013 1:21 pm | Lignocellulosic biomass is the most abundant organic material on Earth and could supply the sugars needed to produce advanced biofuels that can supplement or replace fossil fuels.

Why we should teach philosophy to kids

Via the BPS Research Digest : A recent study on the long-term benefits of the Socratic method .

U.S. government web sites you didn't know you could use

Click to view Overlooked and difficult to find, there are hundreds of thousands of U.S. government web sites that can help you accomplish a variety of tasks. At the right federal .gov destination you can locate historical documents, keep tabs on Congressional happenings, view presidential paperwork, and a whole lot more.