Best Web Apps and Resources for College Students
Posted on 01. Sep, 2009 by srikanth in Internet Tools
College students are increasingly reliant on computers for online research, job search, assignments etc. Sometimes, students might have to spend money of software, but why would you want to do that? There are free alternatives available for almost every purpose.
Many of the free applications are web apps that help you organize your stuff with ease. Utilizing web applications will not only increase your overall productivity but also help you save extra space on your computer.
Here are some handy web based applications and resources for college students to collaborate and share documents online, keep track of assignments, improve vocabulary, takes notes and more.
The Apps
Design your Dorm: It is a web-based 3-D interior design tool that allows college students to customize their dorm room interiors and purchase their favorite room selections online.
WatchKnow: WatchKnow is a non-profit online community that enables you to create and share free, innovative and educational videos. It provides 1000′s of educational videos organized into various categories.
Mynoteit: An online note taking tool for students. It allows you to take and store your notes online. You can even edit and revise notes with peers.
Tuxpi: Instantly makes a wanted poster with your own picture and text. It includes many photo effects you can try out!
Calcoolate: Web based online scientific calculator with unit conversion and financial currency conversion functionality. It automatically displays the history of previous calculation results.
AllFreeEssays: Search for essays, term papers and reports written by students for free! It contains thousands of quality essays, book reports, and research papers sorted by respective topics.
Coursepedia: It enables you to search college courses at one place. Users can search for courses by class, school or career.
Science books online: Lists free science e-books, textbooks, lecture notes, monographs, and other science related documents. All texts are available for free reading online, or for downloading in various formats.
Open library: Open Library is a project of the non-profit Internet Archive. Its an extensive book cover resource, featuring over 23 million books available in different languages.
Vocabsushi: VocabSushi is an ideal website for anyone looking to learn vocabulary and have fun doing it. It’s an interactive vocabulary builder enabling you to learn new words based on their usage in daily news.
Slideserve: It enables you to easily upload and share PowerPoint presentations either publicly or privately with others. You can even email the presentations to friends and embed them for social networking sites and blogs.
PowerTyping: It’s a free web based typing tutor for Qwerty and Dvorak keyboards. It also provides you with free typing lessons, games and exercises to practice.
Flash Card Machine: Web application that enables users to easily create interactive web-based study flash cards and share them with others.
Graphing calculator: Enables you to quickly create complex graphs.
Docshare: Is a social document sharing community enabling you to easily find, upload and share documents. You can download, print and embed the documents as well.
by Srikanth AD from Firefox Ninjas
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