Category: Life
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50 most frequently looked up words on the NYTimes
N.Y. Times mines its data to identify words that readers find abstruse » Nieman Journalism Lab If The New York Times ever strikes you as an abstruse glut of antediluvian perorations, if the newspaper’s profligacy of neologisms and shibboleths ever set off apoplectic paroxysms in you, if it all seems a bit recondite, here’s a…
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8 Tuition-Free Colleges
mental_floss Blog » 8 Tuition-Free Colleges 8 Tuition Fee Colleges During difficult economic times, the cost of higher education leaves many students wondering if they can afford to go to college. Here are eight schools that offer tuition-free educations.
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10 Online Learning Tools for Students
From MakeUseOf, one of the sites I have recently found, and found extremely useful, there is this article here. What a great post about tools that actually can impact a student’s learning.
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21 Excellent Web Apps For College Students
Dumb Little Man posts this article on what tools and web sites make sense for college students. Find them posted at http://www.dumblittleman.com/2008/12/21-excellent-web-apps-for-college.html
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Opening Up Education
Opening Up Education Today’s the pub date for a book that’s important not only for its scholarship but for how that scholarship is being delivered to the reader. Opening Up Education is a collection of papers by scholars that explore how open access – the free, online availability of materials – can transform education. The…