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No matter if you are attending school, college or self-teaching yourself, your Mac can be a valuable tool to help you accomplish your goals. We’ve rounded up 9 fantastic apps which will help you to teach and organize yourself better than ever, hopefully getting you on the road to improving your knowledge. Whether you’re wanting to learn a language, improve your math, or structure an academic course, there’ll be something for you in today’s roundup.!

9 Amazing Mac Apps to Help You Learn

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ClassMarker: Free Online Test Creator

http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/classmarker/ ClasssMaker is an easy to use online test creator app makes it easy to create online tests and quizzes, and then invite others to take participate. You can create multiple choice, true false, free text, short answer, fill in the blank and punctuation quizzes. And the best thing, there is no limit on the number of tests a sing use can create.
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PaperRater: Instantly Proofread & Check Your Paper For Plagiarism

One of the most boring things that comes with being a student is proofreading your own paper. Diligent students should make sure that their work is well-written, original, coherent, and grammatically correct. PaperRater is a web service that helps you with that. It can quickly check your paper for plagiarism, proofread and detect grammar or spelling mistakes.

KhanAcademy: A Great Source For Learning Through Videos

The internet is a great source of information. For students, in particular, the internet can prove to be a great help. There are countless educational resources that help students with their homework and learn new concepts. http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/khanacademy-source-for-learning/
Posted by Site Administrator in Online Learning May 7th, 2009 Learning new skills and expanding your knowledge doesn’t have to cost you an arm and a leg. There are loads of free resources on the Web that can help you find instructional videos, tutorials and classes to learn a wide variety of skills from fixing basic car problems to speaking another language. With 100 sites to choose from, you’re bound to find something here that will help you learn just about anything you could want. General Tutorials These sites offer a wide range of tutorials and videos.

100 Amazing How-To Sites to Teach Yourself Anything | Rated Colleges

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These college study tips are to help students learn how and when to study, and tips and tricks you can use to get ahead. Studying for college is no fun, but if you plan your time correctly and get your work done, you will have more time for fun such as college parties. College Study Tips Create Mnemonics Mnemonics are devices that can help you memorize formulas, key concepts, definitions, etc.

College Study Tips for College Students - CollegeTips.com

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News Links

Here they are, just the links, for those of you who don't want to make your own paper. The good thing about this page is that it is updated as often as the form page, so you'll always have the latest links to periodical information sources on the Internet. Enjoy! The numbers in brackets ([ ]) are the percentage of CRAYON newspapers that included that news source. There is also a list sorted by popularity among CRAYON subscribers.

12 Dozen Places To Educate Yourself Online For Free

http://www.marcandangel.com/2010/11/15/12-dozen-places-to-self-educate-yourself-online/ post written by: Marc Email All education is self-education. Period. It doesn’t matter if you’re sitting in a college classroom or a coffee shop. We don’t learn anything we don’t want to learn.

101 Excellent Resources And Tools For Students Of Any Age | Brain Training 101

Whether you’re a student just starting the school year or you’re a lifelong learner like me, you’ll find resources, tools and a ton of fun stuff to stash in your virtual backpack. If you find these resources helpful, please share this post with your friends. I would greatly appreciate it. Before you begin, make sure you Grab Your Free Brain Training Power Pack . http://www.braintraining101.com/101-excellent-resources-for-students-of-any-age/
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. Enjoy, and good luck with the new semester. 1.

10+ Web Tools To Save Your Butt In School

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Powerpoint has produced more bad design in its day that perhaps any other digital tool in history with the possible exception of Microsoft paint. In this post we’re going to address the epidemic of bad presentation design with ten super practical tips for designer better looking and more professional presentations. Along the way we’ll see a number of awesome slide designs from Note & Point along with some custom examples built by yours truly. Let’s get started! Also be sure to check out 10 Tips for Designing Presentations That Don’t Suck: Pt.2! Not a Designer?

10 Tips for Designing Presentations That Don’t Suck: Pt.1

Dear valued user, In 2010, Cramster joined forces with Chegg. Since then, we've been hard at work building the best of Cramster into Chegg. We are proud to unveil a better experience built for students and experts just like you; you'll find this on Chegg.com. Thank you for coming to our site. It's been a joy to deliver you the best online homework help experience at Cramster, and you can expect more of the same at Chegg!

Homework Help from Cramster | Math, Algebra, Physics, Chemistry, Science, History, Accounting, English

Don't Pay for Technology: 25 Freebies for Students

Jun 29, 2009 In today's economic climate, paying for technology isn't prudent, and for some students, it isn't even an option. Fortunately, there are plenty of freebies on the web that can help with document creation, research, writing, storage, collaboration, studying and more. Here are 25 free web apps and software programs that may be useful to students. Document Creation
If you’re a professional who likes to be intellectually stimulated and you enjoy keeping up with the latest news and breaking trends, the internet provides you with an endless choice of carefully curated sites to visit. Today, we bring you six of them that we believe are leaps and bounds above the rest. These sites will not only educate you on topics ranging from business and technology to art and design, they’ll motivate you to find your own, original ideas and see them through. They’re culturally relevant, they’re idea driven and most of all, they’re deeply inspirational. TED is short for three incredibly important subjects in our modern world; technology, entertainment and design.

Top 6 Sites that Inspire and Educate