Research and Study Tools For College Students
Thursday October 16th 2008, 2:08 pm
Filed under: College, College Students, Research, Resources, Studying, Technology, University

Regardless of what sort of term system your school utilizes, at this point every college student in the land is up to their eyebrows in the hard damn work portion of their college education. Here’s a list of some of the tools that have elicited the most enthusiastic responses from college students around the blogosphere, along with some sites I thought were useful:

Doing the Research

ChunkIt
Google Book Search
Google Reader
Google Scholar
OEDb’s Research Beyond Google
Scholar Search Engines
WorldCat

Collecting the Research

Del.icio.us
Fireshot
PDFCreator

Resources

EnhanceMyWriting
How to Write a Term Paper
Idea Generator
LibrarianChick
Library Research Guide
Research 101

Bibliography

BibMe
EasyBib
EndNote
OttoBib
Zotero

Taking Notes

Evernote
Google Notebook
mynoteIT

Organization (Not Forgetting Stuff)

Google Calendar
Remember the Milk
30 Boxes

Study Tools

Flashcards
How to Study: A Brief Guide
Study Guides and Strategies
Quizlet

Office Suites (the writing, presenting and spreadsheet parts)

Google Docs (free)
Microsoft Office (not as free)
Zoho (free)

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“notebooks” image: presentsandlaw.com




Please consider adding StudyStack.com to your excellent blog about study tools. StudyStack provides flashcards entered by its community of users. All flashcards also get used to generate the following activities (to help students not get bored studying and to help their brain connect with the information in additional ways)

crossword
hangman
scrambled word
study table
study stack
matching
bug match
fill-in-the-blank

You can also put your flashcards on your cell phone, iPod, or PDA.

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