Ditch the Backpack: 100 Essential Web Tools for Virtual Students | eLearning Gurus While learning at home offers great opportunities for working on your own time and schedule, it can also offer drawbacks when it comes to working with others or getting immediate help on a problem. Whether you need help, collaboration, or just want a little extra knowledge when completing your assignments, these web tools will help you find what you need. From note taking to researching to staying organized, the following resources will have you making top grades in your classes. Collaboration Studying online doesn’t mean you have to lose out on the brainstorming and social connection. Zoho Show. Bookmarking and Note-Taking Internet research is a great way to find information for your assignments. Del.icio.us. Writing Tools From spell checkers to bibliography creators to word counters, these tools will help you write like a professional. orangoo. Research Google Reader. Study Tools Everyone can use a little extra help when it comes to those difficult classes. Quizlet. Mind Mapping VUE.
Celebrating Women’s History: 100 Amazing Libraries and Collections on the Web | eLearning Gurus Women have played a big and sometimes under-appreciated role in the shaping of history in the United States and around the world. Take part in celebrating the achievement of brave, smart, and determined women from all countries and time periods by learning about women’s history online. There are numerous sites on the web, many through libraries and archives, that can provide you with access not only to information but to documents, photos and first hand accounts of women as well. Here is a list of 100 places to start looking to learn more about women’s history. Libraries and Archives Check out these large collections and libraries for a huge range of photos, documents and other information on women’s history. The Women’s Library: This UK-based library is home to an incredibly extensive collection of resources on women’s history. Government Resources The U.S. government is a great source for information about women’s history. Suffrage and Women’s Rights Special Collections Photos Documents
Learning to Think Critically From the author: Despite great strides in our understanding, the average person still does not understand science in the facts or in the practice, and instead fills the void with pseudoscience. This reflects a worldview that values an emphasis on commonly accepted, traditional lore, and a general disinterest in the role of science and reason in our lives. Science is perceived by the media, government, and popular conciousness as something that happens to other people. This is unacceptable. Those who value science can not retreat into their academic towers. I have a message and a challenge to all viewers. Watch the full documentary now (playlist - 2 hours, 18 minutes)
Well, At Least There Was Good Stuff to Read: The Books of the Decade Anybody remember how anxious and thrilled we were in those last months of the 20th century? When we weren't at war and we had a budget surplus and it looked like Al Gore would be president? The prospect of a 21st century filled with new technologies, new art and literature loomed large and bright. But now, as we look back at what was decidedly a shitty decade for an incredible variety of people in an equally incredible variety of ways (evictions/invasions/bombings/etc), it's surprisingly hard to be pessimistic about the books that assessed, satirized, dramatized and distracted us from the events of the past 10 years. Goethe said that the decline of a nation's literature is the precursor to that nation's fall, and with this look back at the books that defined the decade, we'd like to tell Goethe to suck it. To be clear: there were plenty of bad books over the course of the decade, as well.
30 Websites that Pay You to Contribute an Article, Instantly “Thanks to your list of 110 sites that pay writers, I just sold one of my blog posts (originally written for Wording Well) to Income Diary for $150 USD. I just wanted to say thanks for that resource! ” – Lorraine Reguly In this article, I’ll be listing 30 unique websites that will pay you to contribute an article to them. While there are websites that give you a part of the revenue your article generates, it is often difficult for writers wanting to make quick cash to benefit from this websites. Get the UPDATED 2015 Version of this List: The new updated version of this list includes 110 websites that PAY writers, and it is updated and verified for 2015. The good thing about most of the sites listed below is that they also allow you to include a bio with a link back to your website. Note: A few years after publishing this list, I’ve compiled and published a more recent one that features 46 additional websites that will pay you to write. Here are 30+ sites that pay you to write an article.
Eight Secrets Which Writers Won’t Tell You Image from Flickr by Lazurite This is not particularly relevant to the post, but I’m getting an awful lot of comments telling me, often a little snarkily, “it’s ‘THAT’ not ‘WHICH’”. The “don’t use which for restrictive clauses” rule comes (as far as I can tell) from Strunk and White. Plenty of authors, including Austen, have used “which” exactly as I use it in the title. It’s very commonly used like this here in England, so I’m guessing my comments are coming from US readers. There was never a period in the history of English when “which” at the beginning of a restrictive relative clause was an error. I thought about putting “that” in the title – but I like the sound of “which” between “secrets” and “writers”. And with that out of the way, enjoy the post! A few years ago, I’d look at published writers and think that they were somehow different from me. They were real writers. I’m going to go through eight secrets. Secret #1: Writing is Hard The truth is, though, that writing is hard.
Study Hacks » Patterns of Success for Students Work Accomplished = Time Spent x Intensity April 8th, 2014 · 31 comments The Straight-A Method In the early 2000′s, I was obsessed with study habits. Something I uncovered during this period is that high performing undergraduates, as a general rule, seem to internalize the following formula: Work Accomplished = Time Spent x Intensity This formula helps explain why some students can spend all night in the library and still struggle, while others never seem to crack a book but continually bust the curve. (This is how I avoided all-nighters, for example, during my three year stretch of 4.0′s as an undergraduate.) From Campus to Corporation I’m mentioning this phenomenon because of the following observation: The above formula applies to most cognitively demanding tasks. In other words, intensity affects the productivity of a knowledge worker as much as it helps the GPA of a college student. Read more » The Student Passion Problem March 2nd, 2014 · 39 comments The Double Degree Read more » Time Blocking
The Power to Will: Nietzsche and Becoming Free Reaching Out The will to power is not essentially political; it aims beyond politics towards a more subtle possession. The will to power is articulated as a higher expression of the will to live, as opposed to the will to survive. Rather, it is struggle itself, the will to raise oneself up, out joyfully from nothingness, into higher and more rarefied regions of becoming. Is consciousness an expression of the will to power? But what power? At the moment when humanity itself is realizable, it is already too late for us to realize it. Whereas, without ever becoming subject, the will to power is the very production of subjectivity. Like this: Like Loading... Websites For Students: 10 Online Learning Tools When I was in elementary school I was very annoyed by all this studying. But my idea and hope was that once I was done with school, I would also be done learning. I couldn’t wait. Thus I was rather irritated when I heard that my dad had to complete training for his job to learn new things. Some 20 years later I’m still a student and I know I’ll never get done learning. 1. Dynamic Periodic Table This periodic table helps in keeping elements apart. Periodic Table of the Elements This periodic table is more compact than the previous one and it’s great for a quick summary for each element. 2. Foldit Foldit is not really a tool you’ll need for your everyday biology class. Simon has reviewed the tool in detail in his article Foldit – Solve Puzzles for Science. 3. Mathway This is an online tool that will help solve your maths challenges. Varun previously wrote about Mathway – A Step By Step Mathematics Problems Solver. SpeedCrunch (Windows, Mac, Linux) 4. LiveMocha VerbaLearn 5. wePapers
50 Education Technology Tools Every Teacher Should Know About Technology and education are pretty intertwined these days and nearly every teacher has a few favorite tech tools that make doing his or her job and connecting with students a little bit easier and more fun for all involved. Yet as with anything related to technology, new tools are hitting the market constantly and older ones rising to prominence, broadening their scope, or just adding new features that make them better matches for education, which can make it hard to keep up with the newest and most useful tools even for the most tech-savvy teachers. Here, we’ve compiled a list of some of the tech tools, including some that are becoming increasingly popular and widely used, that should be part of any teacher’s tech tool arsenal this year, whether for their own personal use or as educational aids in the classroom. Social Learning These tools use the power of social media to help students learn and teachers connect. Learning Lesson Planning and Tools Useful Tools
A mnemonics and memory improvement resource One of the widest held explanations of how memory operates, is that impulses from different areas of the brain and from the senses, enter the limbic system (situated in the central area of the brain), and are then passed through the mamillary body. These memory impulses then travel around the fornix, to terminate at the hypocampus and the cingulate gyrus. These limbic structures are the ones that it would seem are responsible for the recording and the retrieval of memories. It also has been found, that damage to these structures is the cause of many of the more acute forms of amnesia. Learning curves A useful phenomenon to understand as a prelude to mnemonics, is that of learning curves. Basically what the above diagram illustrates, is that information studied at the beginning and at the end of a study period, is far more readily recalled than is information studied in the middle. Primacy and Recency effects State dependent learning Or for a KINDLE download Click here
A List of Books | 623 of the Best Books ever Written Top 14 websites for students 100 Incredible Lectures from the World's Top Scientists Posted on Thursday June 18, 2009 by Staff Writers By Sarah Russel Unless you’re enrolled at one of the best online colleges or are an elite member of the science and engineering inner circle, you’re probably left out of most of the exciting research explored by the world’s greatest scientists. But thanks to the Internet and the generosity of many universities and online colleges, you’ve now got access to the cutting edge theories and projects that are changing the world in this list below. If you’re looking for even more amazing lectures, check out our updated list for 2012 with more talks from great minds. General Let the world’s top scientists explain exactly how they do their job when you listen to these lectures. Science and Engineering From materials science to the study of thermodynamics, learn more about the science of engineering here. WTC Lecture – collapse of WTC Buildings: Steven E. Biology and Medicine Chemistry Physics and Astronomy Earth and Environment Technology Science and Business