Students Can Get Microsoft Office 365 for Free
Starting on December 1st, Universities that license Office Education for their faculty and staff can offer students Office 365 ProPlus for free.
Turn Chrome Into a Research Hub With These Extensions
The Internet is a wonderful resource for students, but these Chrome extensions can make the process of finding, marking up, organizing, and citing information a million times easier.
6 Great Tech Tips to Beat College on a Budget
There are some easy ways to get free textbooks, study more efficiently, and cut the time it takes to write a paper in half. Despite growing criticisms of the "value" of a degree, this generation has the best chance to make the most out of a course. Technology has enabled us to speed up just about every other industry and create the kind of efficiency man could only dream about two decades ago. So why not apply it to academic life?
5 Ways Tech Can Help You Foster Better Study Habits
It's been a while since I've been in school, but I know a few friends who are still studying their way towards graduation. It amazes me how many tools currently exist out there to aid in the study process - tools that I would've loved to make use of back before I earned my degree. Unfortunately, my time for improved study habits is over, but you can still benefit!
The Best 10 Google Docs Tips For Teachers As They Go Back To School
Back-to-school time is underway, and I'm sure you teachers are already balancing your lives, your classroom, and your pesky administrations. What could make life just a little bit easier for you? Google Docs, my dear educator friend. Google Docs. Below, we have ten awesome tips to help you out when handling your students and their parents. Some of them you may know, but others, you very well may not.
4 Online Courses You Could Take Instead Of Going Back to School
Going for a university education is an expensive proposition. There's no doubting that. For most people, this is totally worth it. The advantages that having a degree to your name totally outweigh the crushing indebtedness that usually accompanies it. That's not to say that there aren't any compelling alternatives online. Here are four online courses that are giving traditional bricks and mortar institutions a run for their money.
Bite The Entrepreneurial Bug By Taking 7 Free Online Courses On How To Start A Business
In any 21st century job, the work is hard and the hours are long. Thankfully, there’s a secret mantra revealed to the truly courageous – if you are not in a perfect job; create one for yourself. That’s where you stop swimming with the current and dare to go against it. Without a life jacket. From the cubicle cave you get to dunk yourself in the choppy waters of entrepreneurship. Here are seven free online entrepreneurial courses to put the building blocks in place.
How To Use Google Forms To Create Your Own Self-Grading Quiz
Are you a teacher or trainer? Someone involved in a hiring process? Do you need to check somehow that other people have the skills or knowledge that you expect them to? Well, you're going to love what you can do using Google Forms. You can create a self-grading test for whatever your purposes are. That's powerful!
5 Study Skills Every Online Student Needs to Have for Beating Failure
It's not the content, the professors, or the assignments by any means. Actually, it's the format. With online courses, everything relies on you. There's no schedule to follow, no classes to sit through, no professors to face in person... Nothing like that. That's why we've put together five skills you should learn when taking on such a course for yourself.
Recordium Highlights & Annotates Your Voice Recordings [iOS]
If you're a student or someone who regularly records lectures, meetings, or music, a new feature rich iOS app called Recordium allows you to manage, highlight, annotate, edit, and share recordings right from an iPhone - the app runs rings around Voice Memos when it comes to what can be done with audio. Two years ago, I highlighted and reviewed Blue Microphone's Blue FiRe as the best audio recorder app for the iPhone, but Recordium now surpasses it.
Learn How To Take Notes While Watching An Online Video With VideoNot.es
Some ideas are so simple that you are left wondering why anyone didn’t think of it before; especially Google which has YouTube under its large umbrella. The idea I am talking about here relates to taking down notes while you are watching a video. Anyone who has done an online educational course with video lectures, or let’s say, has taken the help of a video tutorial will vouch for the value of note taking while watching a video.
10 Amazing Ways For Teachers & Tutors To Use Twitter In Education
Twitter like all other social media is a virtual Aladdin’s cave. It is a gateway to riches. But just like in the story, this Aladdin’s cave is also booby-trapped. Use it right and you will come away the genie of knowledge ready to do your bidding. Use it wrong and you will be a casualty of wasted time. So, ‘rub’ it just right.
4 Wonderful Educational iPad Apps for Kids
There are wonderful educational apps out there, many of which cost $10, $20, or even more. I’m not here to say they’re not worth it – you’re going to pay much more for a textbook – but it’s also possible to find cheaper apps that nonetheless provide a great learning experience for kids of all ages. For the list below, I tried to stick to apps that cost $5 or less, and all except one offer a free version too.
Cerego - A Powerful Learning Service That Tries To Make You Smarter [500 Reader Invites]
Learning is a subject often fraught with frustration, angst, and pressure. But it really doesn’t have to be that way. The traditional school system, conceived long before the advent of computers and modern learning methodologies, isn’t really the best way to learn. There are many tools and methods that improve on what’s available in most schools today, but in this post I’d like to introduce you to one specific contender called Cerego.
Conquer Your Next Research Project The Easy Way With These Tools
Whether you’re in school or you have a job, you likely have or will have to research at one point or another. And if you’re like most people, you will have to do it several times. But research is a daunting task. Research is a hard enough task without excellent tools to help collect, save and organize your information. Why make it harder than it has to be? Use these tools on your next research project and I guarantee you won’t be disappointed.
How To Visualize Ideas, Information & Data Using Sketchnoting
If you're a student or someone who takes notes a regular basis, you may be interested in a fun and even artistic movement called Sketchnoting. Sketchnoting is like notetaking, but it includes visual notes as well as words. It's a way of conceptualizing ideas, information, and other data on paper (or a digital tablet) beyond the traditional text medium of outlining. Sketchnoting, or visual notetaking, is for clustering information and capturing big ideas.
3 Free Online Universities To Help You Get By Without A Degree
Education is such a valuable things these days, and with the power of the Internet, there is no reason people should be without it. However, with all this information flying around, it can be a little difficult rooting out the bad facts from the good ones. With that said, a few websites have set out to provide decent education in the format of online universities. However, what makes it great is that these websites offer all of their material for free (well, for the most part).
10 Excellent iPad Apps For School
We are seeing more and more iPads in schools. They offer all kinds of possibilities for new ways to teach students. Because they are so portable, it is much easier for students to bring them anywhere they go, and bring the learning with them. The iPad is even useful for young students because of its intuitive, easy to understand user interface. Almost anyone can pick one up and know exactly how to use it.
Memorize Anything In Double Quick Time With AnyMemo Free [Android]
If you thought that flash cards (or flashcards) were only for students in vocabulary training, you wouldn’t be more wrong. Flashcards can be used to memorize anything that requires retention through repetitive repetition; and that by its very definition anything you want to learn and commit to memory. True, flashcards gained their name and fame with phonics and spelling testers, but try it out on anything which you want to learn, and you have your most effective study guide.
3 Tried-And-True Tips For Buying Cheap Textbooks
The start of my fall semester classes is approaching faster than I want, marking the inevitable end of a spectacular summer for me. That doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy the process of getting ready for school like obtaining new supplies and textbooks. As a veteran textbook buyer, I get pretty cheap textbooks thanks to a few things I have learned from being in school for so long.