7 Ways to Use the iPad to Help Students Excel at School
We are approaching the era where students don't have to carry stacks of thick heavy books to school anymore. Everything will be digitized and available at the tip of students' fingers, inside the iPad. Not wanting to waste any more time, some schools have already adopted the iPad as their learning tool, while students and educators are slowly figuring out the best way to utilize the iPad for education.
Organize Your Research With The New Standalone Zotero
One of Zotero’s biggest cons is that it works only within Firefox. This means you have to be running Firefox and use it to save the articles you find. As long as I was using Firefox, this was not a big issue, but when I switched to Chrome for a while, it became quite cumbersome. This is why I was delighted to find out that Zotero have come up with Standalone Zotero Alpha.
Make Skim Your Ultimate Reading & Study Tool For PDF Files [Mac]
Though Apple's PDF reader and image correction application, Preview, is a highly used default program on the Mac, a third-party alternative reader, Skim, pushes Preview to the side when it comes to advanced study and annotation tools and features. A slew of additional annotation tools and document management features have been added.
3 Websites To Purchase Electronic College Textbooks
One of the biggest shocks for me when I first enrolled in college was the insane cost of textbooks. Unfortunately, there is really no way to cut out this problem, but if you don't want to carry around some ratty textbooks with you everywhere you go, there is the option to buy them in an electronic format.
OpenStudy - A Collection Of Online Study Groups On All Subjects
Are you a current student? A homeschooler or homeschooling parent? Have you decided to keep learning and to always be a student? Have you ever dreamed about the ideal study group? Well, OpenStudy has too, and they're determined to make it happen. It is a collection of study groups based on topic and it's an ideal way to meet your peers from all corners of the world.