Study Skills
There are many useful software applications that can help you with your note taking, and exam revision.
Listed here you will find some sites and apps recommended by learning professionals. They are divided into categories.
Organisers
An online to-do list with email and sms reminders. Analyzes dates, priorities, time estimates to create a customized schedule of the best use of your time. You can even print a booklet that will fit in your pocket. Has collaboration tools so you can easily work with other people on shared projects.
If you already use a task manager, Toodledo can import tasks from many sources.
Instantly create as many different dashboards as you'd like to, track all your latest interests. The most awarded startpage where millions of people around the world personalize and publish all aspects of their daily digital lives.
A mind-mapping tool that enables your mind-maps to be embedded in your own web page, blog or post, "Wise it" (linking documents to it) or "Share it" to anyone in the world.
Flash cards
"Study less, remember more!" Cramberry helps you study with online flash cards. Make cards on Cramberry, or choose from a catalogue of free public flash cards. Presents cards at intervals for maximum retention, analyzes your progress and shows you cards you need to study. Available for i-phone etc.
On Line Dictionary and Word Associations
Looks up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts.
Produces diagrams reminiscent of a neural net.
Learn how words associate.
Searching the Internet
Snippy
A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.
Presentations
Tagxedo Like Wordle, but you define the shape your end-product makes; so a paragraph about football can be shaped like one.
Listed here you will find some sites and apps recommended by learning professionals. They are divided into categories.
Organisers
If you already use a task manager, Toodledo can import tasks from many sources.
Flash cards
On Line Dictionary and Word Associations
Produces diagrams reminiscent of a neural net.
Learn how words associate.
Searching the Internet
Snippy
Selects text from Web pages. Simply click on the little Snippy icon in the taskbar notification area, and mark out the region of the screen that you want to copy. The cut-out image will now be in your clipboard, and you can paste it in another application. If you are cutting out a portion of an Internet Explorer window, the URL will also be copied to the clipboard – it states your sources for you!
Show Them What's Important - The Awesome Highlighter!
Makes it easy to show the important parts of any web page. Highlights text which you can save, copy and paste the url, send on by email.
Presentations
Tagxedo Like Wordle, but you define the shape your end-product makes; so a paragraph about football can be shaped like one.