Archive for the 'Study Tools' Category

Free Audio Learning Resource From LearnOutLoud

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 in Student Resource, Study Tools | No Comments »

LearnOutLoud offers extensive audio and video learning resources such as audio books, lectures, speeches, sermons and interviews that can be use by students for their research project or speech preparation. These can be downloaded for free through your computer and even portable digital media player.
Among the topics that are available for free are poetry, short [...]

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Learn Foreign Language And Help Your Brain To Be Sharper

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 in Study Tools | No Comments »

It is true that learning a new language helps your brain to be sharper and since iPod can also be used as a studying tool, I would like to recommend a web resource that can help you learn a new language during your spare time or while waiting for your next class. I am referring [...]

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iPod As Studying Tool?

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 in Study Tools, Studying Tips | No Comments »

Why not? iPod is basically a music or video portable player but because of the explosion of online educational materials all over the web, iPod became a valuable tool to access these educational materials anytime and anywhere. No wonder that iPod is now being distributed by some universities to their students.
Also,  there are already lots [...]

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Easy Way To Review And Prepare For Exam

Saturday, April 12th, 2008 in Examination Tips, Study Tools | No Comments »

Based on my experience, the easiest way for me to prepare for my upcoming examinations is to review by conducting a test-like questionnaire or a review material that has a question and answer format. This is faster and allows me to cover all the topics that are included in the exam. For me, this is [...]

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Here’s How To Repair Your Corrupted Office Documents

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 in Study Tools, Studying Tips, Writing Tips | No Comments »

Have you ever experienced opening your MS Word, MS Excel or MS PowerPoint files and can not access them anymore? Well, I know how frustrating it is especially if the file contains important data about your existing school project or research work.
These circumstances really happen once in a while and the reasons vary from one [...]

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Cool Aid For Your Typing Needs

Monday, February 4th, 2008 in Study Tools, Writing Tips | No Comments »

Do you sometime need to type an entire book to create a new document that is in MS Word format but constrained in time to type all those pages? If you have a scanner, you can convert them into text document at a fraction of time by using the OCR or Optical Character Recognition software.
Don’t [...]

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Free Online Trivia Quizzes To Enrich Your Mind

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 in Student Resource, Study Tools | No Comments »

Whether young or old, knowing facts and trivia about culture, science and world is always fun. In fact it is actually exciting to answer short quizzes about these topics once in a while. I have found one great resource of online trivia quizzes that can be enjoyed by everybody.
It is found in the World Book [...]

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Online Bookmarking Site For Studying Purposes

Saturday, January 12th, 2008 in Study Tools | No Comments »

You probably heard about bookmarking sites such as CiteULike,  del.icio.us,   reddit,  Simpy, Furl, Stumbleupon and many others. These sites are popular because of their ability to tag and bookmark web pages on the Internet.
But did you know that you can actually use these bookmarking sites for your studies? You can store and organize your online [...]

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Good Virtual Library For Students

Friday, January 11th, 2008 in Researching Tips, Study Tools | No Comments »

It is true that not all students are good researchers and so, there are times when students who are not that good in researching ended up with incomplete or poorly researched homework. And with the explosion of advertisement all over the World Wide Web, many of us get nothing but a load of commercialized search [...]

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Online Tool For Writing Papers

Thursday, December 6th, 2007 in Study Tools, Writing Tips | 1 Comment »

As I am browsing around, I found another online studying tool that students can use when they are researching and writing papers. The website is CiteULike, a free online tool to help you save and organize references that you will be suing on your research paper.
By just several clicks, you can easily compile all the [...]

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