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Backyard Brains. Anatomy Dissection Videos Video Lecture Course - StumbleUpon. 30 fast mental math Tricks : EasyCal Secrets of Mental Math techniques. Modlab. 10 Open Education Resources You May Not Know About (But Should) This week, the OCW Consortium is holding its annual meeting, celebrating 10 years of OpenCourseWare.

The movement to make university-level content freely and openly available online began a decade ago, when the faculty at MIT agreed to put the materials from all 2,000 of the university’s courses on the Web. With that gesture, MIT OpenCourseWare helped launch an important educational movement, one that MIT President Susan Hockfield described in her opening remarks at yesterday’s meeting as both the child of technology and of a far more ancient academic tradition: “the tradition of the global intellectual commons.” We have looked here before at how OCW has shaped education in the last ten years, but in many ways much of the content that has been posted online remains very much “Web 1.0.” But as open educational resources and OCW increase in popularity and usage, there are a number of new resources out there that do offer just that. How to Write a Great Term Paper in One Evening | StudentHacks.org. If you’ve ever procrastinated like I have, you’ve probably had to research and write an entire term paper in one night.

It’s not the ideal way to write, but I’ve been able to write some of my best papers during this time. I’m not sure if it’s the adrenaline or what, but writing things last minute seems to be the muse that I need. Anyway, if you ever find yourself staring at a blank word document at like 10 p.m. – and your paper is due the next day – this blog entry is just for you. I’ve included an approximate time length for each step below. These are just approximations that will obviously fluctuate with your particular assignment.

The purpose of setting times for each task is to quickly move your paper along. Step 1: Relax Your Mind (15 Minutes) Before you get started on this paper, I want you to relax your mind. Step 2: Develop a Great Thesis Statement (45 minutes) Alright, once you’re relaxed it’s time to focus your attention on writing a great thesis statement. Recommended Reading.