The Common Standards set guidelines for what the topics and skills that students should cover according to their grade. While planning classes, teachers have to factor in the Common Standards and fit them into their course agenda. Here to help teachers easily plan course by keeping Common Standards in view is a website called Common [...]
Any high school or college student will know just how involved chemistry can be. Protons, neutrons, electrons, electron shells, covalent bonds – the list goes on and on. Therefore, it’s almost a no-brainer to have some sort of reference material at the ready whenever you’re allowed to have it. Interestingly enough, a high school senior [...]
Finding the right college for yourself is not an easy task. You can very easily choose the wrong college and end up paying more tuition than you need to. Choosing the right college is a complicated process. You need to factor in the environment of the college, the degrees it is offering, know how those [...]
Often teachers find it problematic to manage the huge number of student assignments and quizzes they get. At times like parent-teacher meetings, pulling out a student’s quiz from a big stack can be time-consuming. Here to help is a tool called Three Ring. Three Ring is a free to use smartphone application that offers versions [...]
Do you find yourself forgetting homework assignments? Well that is obviously not good for your grades. Maybe you thought your iPhone was a distraction for getting your homework done, but with myHomework, that will not be a problem anymore. This application will help you keep track of everything you need to keep track of your [...]
Flash cards are a great way to memorize things. If you are preparing for an exam where there are formulas or facts to remember, then you might want to create and use flash cards. StudyBlue is one studying source that helps you do this. StudyBlue is a web service that helps you study by letting [...]
College students could always use great books as reference material. The same applies to travellers and businessmen who could all use valuable information in the books they need. A site that helps you download such books for free is “Bookboon.” Bookboon is a free to use website that lets you download eBooks. The eBooks are [...]
Flash cards are probably the most effective visual tools for learning. However, it takes time to create them manually or print them out. Fortunately, FauxFlash is a cool study tool that lets you create highly visual flash cards on-the-fly. With this, you can generate flash cards, share it to the community, or browse and download [...]
Do you have an upcoming exam on a particular topic? Or perhaps you would like to quickly learn about a topic without extensively researching it? In such cases, you will find a website called Easy Notecards to be very helpful. Easy Notecards is a free to use web service that provides notecards on particular topics [...]
AP (Advance Placement) exams help you in college by automatically being eligible for certain courses and skipping the prerequisite courses. This helps save not only time but money as well. Here to help you find the colleges and courses corresponding to the AP tests you took is a web service called “MyEdu Credit Finder.” MyEdu [...]
Would you like to know how human organs look, or how your arteries and veins are laid out within the circulatory system? Then you should check out Bodymaps. This flash-based app offers a comprehensive 3D map of the human body that you can easily zoom through and manipulate. Browse through Bodymaps by clicking through the [...]
When you leave home to start living in your college’s dorms, you need to leave prepared. You need to ensure you have all the necessities packed for your stay in the dorm. Here to help organize your packing is a web service called College Packing List. College Packing List is a free to use website [...]
Making a citation or attribution online, be it for a school paper, a blog, or a straight news article, is very important. It is a big part of recognizing the ideas and thoughts of other writers that helped shape your piece of writing. However, the Internet has not yet found a way to easily cite [...]
With lots of stuff going on, colleges can be an overwhelming experience for many people. MyEdu is a simple tool that helps you organize and manage your college education online so you don’t lose track of things. Once you sign up for free and add your college information, the tool lets you create a degree [...]
Do you need somebody to help you complete a task? Are you willing to pay for it? If you answered yes to both, then you need to pay a visit to Agent Anything. It is a wonderful website that helps you outsource errands or tasks to students. You can post a task on the site [...]
Teaching or studying multiple college courses is not an easy task. But assignments, quizzes, and regular interaction with the class are made much easier thanks to Class.io. It is a simple and free to use web service that helps simplify course management. You can set up a course, invite students to enroll online, and then [...]
I’m a big fan of history. A lot of my ‘online time’ is spent reading archaeological articles and the latest discoveries in the field. Today I’ve got a great educational website for History to share with you all: the site is the History Channel’s own History.com. History.com, with its fitting name, is the perfect online [...]
Which part of the body is called ‘pectoralis major’? That and other similar questions about the human anatomy can now be quickly answered thanks to Google Body Browser. Google Body Browser is Google’s latest educational tool. It is a completely detailed outline of the human body. On the left you will find a slider that [...]
Corkboard is a free to use website that provides you with a virtual corkboard where you can create and edit sticky notes as a group. You can add a ‘sticky’ note anyplace on the board by clicking on an empty space. The note can be resized using the small arrow in the bottom right corner [...]
Plagiarism is a serious offence ““ it can get a writer fired and a student expelled. Teachers and editors often have to check work submitted to them for plagiarism. To give them a hand in this, Plagiarisma was created. Plagiarisma is a simple and free to use website that tests a given text for plagiarism. [...]