Thursday, April 12, 2012

Hippo Campus

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     Hippocampus is a free online tutoring site that can help you on your assignment if you are struggling. This site provides several different types of subjects such as math, science, social science, and humanities. This site’s goal is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on subjects that ranges from high school to college educational level. This site can be used for your economic class if you are having trouble on finance. It will provide a colorful and neat way for you to learn about finance. It also separates different topics that are related to finance so you would easily be able to find the different topics that you have trouble in that relates to finance. You'll finish your homework on time and plus, you'll get an A! 

Youthink!

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     Youthink is a free site that offers information about global issues. You can share your stories for the community to see. This site allows you to be able to be more involved with local or global affairs and understanding more about current events that are very important for you to know. It also expands your knowledge about the outside world, so you wouldn’t be left ignorant. This site can be used for your English class; specifically your Current Event Project. When you find an article on cnn.com that you don’t understand, you can search up the issue on YouThink to help further your knowledge about the issue. This will make you more knowledgeable on your subject and help you do well on your presentation.  

Quizlet

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      Quizlet is a free online flashcard maker where you can create study materials for all types of classes. Not only can you create flashcards, you can also send the flashcards you made to your friends and help them study as well! It also provides other flashcard sets that were created by other users as well, so if you are in need of some studying, you can search up the subject you need and the flashcards may be there for you, ready to use! This site can be used for your biology class for your cell structure assignment. This site already has a cell structure flashcard set, so you may use it to study the vocabulary to help you on your assignment and at the same time, getting you ready for the test!

Discovery

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     Discovery education is a free student resource site that brings life into your education. It contains interactive games, videos, virtual labs and tutoring that are designed to help you be more knowledgeable about the subject you are struggling on. This can be used for your trigonometry class for your trigonometric expressions homework assignment. You click on webmath on Discovery, click on Trigonometry and Calculus and then you click on trigonometric expressions. You type in the expression and it will solve it for you and it will also illustrate, step by step, how it got the answer. You will be able to understand your homework assignment and get an A on your test!

Wikibooks


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     Wikibooks is a free online site where you can access textbooks, annotated texts, instructional guides, and manuals. So far, wikibooks contain 2,444 books in total but it is still growing! Wikibooks contains myriad of subjects that ranges from computing to social sciences. Wikibooks can be used for your physics class for your homework. If your assignment is on kinematics: displacement, velocity, and accelerations, then you may go on wikibooks and search for the physics study guide! It will teach you what you need to know and then you’ll be on your way to finishing your homework and getting your A!

Tinypic


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    Tinypic is a free photo and video hosting site that is quick and easy to use! When you upload a file, it gives a short and easy url which you can use to send to your friends, family, or teachers. Tinypic allows the users to upload and host jpg, png, gif, and tiff files and that also automatically resize the image for you if it is too large to be uploaded. Tinypic also allows a wide range of video formats, from 3g2 to xvid, which you can use to upload your video. Tinypic can be used for your English class when you are given a Religion project, which is a project that gets students to go into depth with the religion they are assign. If you are in a hurry, you can use Tinypic, since it does not require you to create an account to use, to send multiple pictures and videos to your group members to use for the project. The link would be easy to remember since they are often short. So, all the images and videos that you are planning to use for the project will all be in one convenient place for your group members to find.  

Sheppard Software


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    The Sheppard Software is a free site that brings the fun into education! This site provides educational games for kids of all ages; whether if you need to strengthen your geography or even your math, these games on Sheppard Software will bring that to you since this site offers a wide range of subjects such as: history, language arts, science, and math! This site does not only provide games, it also has activities and quizzes that tests your abilities on a certain subject as well. This free site could be use for your Algebra I class on an assignment that is all about integers so if you forgotten about your integers you can go on Sheppard. It will provide fun free games that give a great review on pre-Algebra concepts that will be proven useful during Algebra 1!

Doodle

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    Doodle is a free schedule making site which can help students schedule a date where they can meet up with their group members during a project. The features on doodle are plenty such as being able to connect with Google calendar, which is extremely convenient because you don't need to constantly switch back and forth between your calendar! There is also a MeetMe Page. A MeetMe Page is a page where a person can have an overlook of your schedule so if they want to meet up with you, they would know when you're busy and when you're not. Doodle is a great site that could be used for U.S. History class when given a review project. This review project requires the group members to grade the Constitution in a report card format. Since this project is made for groups, doodle could be handy in this situation because you can schedule a date where you can meet up with your group members and they can answer back if they could meet on the specific date you have assigned. If not, you can reschedule, simple as that!  

Bubbl

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     Bubbl is a free brainstorm map software which is created students to easily create one online instead of doing it on paper. This site allows various ways to create your bubble map since it gives you the freedom to move the bubbles where you see fit. It has other features such as having the ability to change text; whether you want it bold, italicized, or even underlined, you will be able to do that on bubbl.us. This makes it easier to differentiate the topic title from the description on your bubble map. This site can be used for your U.S. history class when given an essay assignment. If your essay assignment is about describing the Civil War, you can draft your essay on bubbl.us. You can start with putting your main topic as “Civil War” and branch out into different topics which will become your topic sentence in your essay as well as the key ingredient for your thesis.
         

Prezi

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     Prezi is a free presentation software that was created to make presentations more enjoyable. Instead of using a plain powerpoint where you click through tedious, boring slides, Prezi has zoomable canvas that visually captivates your audience to be more engaged with your presentation by moving from one point in your presentation into another point by zooming into it. Prezi also has other unique features which you can use to enhance your presentation such as being able to import media files from Youtube or images from Google to even being able to add a storyline to create a cinematic feel. Prezi can be used for a variety of classes such as English. I have used Prezi in my English class before for a current event project. I was able to present the article for my project in the presentation just like a powerpoint and at the same time, keep my audience interested through Prezi’s zoomable canvas feature.