STUDENT WEB TOOLS

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STUDENT WEB TOOLS
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STUDY AIDS

• Bibliomania
• www.bibliomania.com
• Study guides to frequently assigned books,
  written by Oxford and Cambridge grads
• Babelfish
• www.babelfish.altavista.com
• Translates between every language since Sanskrit

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Study Aids

• Easybib
• www.easybib.com
• A quick way to create APA or MLA style
  bibliographies
• Grammar Girl
• http//grammar.quickanddirtytips.com
• Quick answers to common grammar questions

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Study Aids

• Google Docs
• http//doc.google.com
• More efficient than sending papers back and forth
  for group projects
• Knight Cite
• www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/KnightCite
• Accurate citation creator for APA, MLA, or
  Chicago style

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Study Aids

• PDF Online
• http//Pdfonline.com
• Turn documents into PDF files
• Word Reference
• www.wordreference.com
• Foreign language online dictionary

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FINDING SCHOLARSHIP MONEY

• Fast Web
• www.fastweb.com
• Great place for scholarships
• Finfo
• www.finfo.com
• Financial info for comparing schools and cost of
  living
• Student Aid
• www.studentaid.ed.gov
• Government site for loans and grants

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Finding

• Tuition Coach
• www.TuitionCoach.com
• Educates about college costs and formulates a
  financial game plan
• Dorm Room Biz
• www.dormroombiz.com
• Make money selling stuff

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Search Research

• Dog Pile
• www.dogpile.com
• All the best search engines complied into one
• Google Scholar
• http//scholar.google.com
• Simply way to search for scholarly material
• Internet Archive
• www.internetarchive.org
• A digital library of Internet sites, displayed as
  they were on any given day in history.

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Etc

• Google Calendar
• http//calendar.google.com
• Organize your life and text messages can be sent
  to your phone
• Pick-A-Prof
• http//pickaprof.com
• Make educated choices about professors by reading
  what other students think
• Rate My Professors
• http//ratemyprofessors.com
• Check out other student opinions

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College Planning Web Sites

• http//www.quintcareers.com/teen_college.html
• http//www.ecampustours.com/
• http//www.collegetidbits.com/
• http//www.makingitcount.com/students/start/defaul
  t.asp