List of Educational Web 2.0 Apps to Jumpstart Your Productivity
There are lots of great web 2.0 apps aimed at students. Here is a list of 25 apps to jumpstart your productivity and help you become a better student today.
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1. Organization
College Ruled - This site will allow you to create a class schedule and a private message board for classmates that you can link to from Facebook.
Myschoolog - Web 2.0 app that lets students create schedules and organize their school life online.
30 Boxes - This easy to use online calendar from 30 Boxes gives you the ability to plot your calendar and track RSS feeds in one spot.
Groupvine - Great organizing tool for study groups and other campus organizations.
Backpack - Award-winning web 2.0 app that lets you prepare schedules, calendars, files and information that you can share with other people.
2. Note Taking
SyncNotes - Create, manage and synchronize your notes with SyncNotes' free service.
The Awesome Highlighter - This time-saving web 2.0 app lets you highlight text on web pages, and then generates a link to a new page showing the same text with highlights.
Note Mesh - NoteMesh is a web 2.0 app that allows college students in the same classes to share notes online using a wiki set-up.
mynoteIT - Take notes, upload notes, scan notes, share notes and access notes from your mobile phone with mynoteIT.
Short Text - Create, share and store notes online with ShortText.com.
3. Homework
Gradefix - A quick and convenient homework management system from Gradefix.
Google Docs - Create, upload, share and store documents, spreadsheets and presentations with this beta tool from Google.
OttoBib - This site will automatically configure your bibliography using one of five styles: APA, Chicago, MLA, BibTeX or Wikipedia.
Calcoolate - This web 2.0 app is for students who need help calculating complex mathematical equations.
Flashcard Exchange - Print flashcards, create flashcards and study online with Flashcard Exchange, the world's largest flashcard library.
4. Research
Diigo - This web 2.0 app is a research tool, an online highlighter and a knowledge-sharing community.
Zotero - Zotero is a Firefox extension that lets you collect, manage and cite research.
Scholarpedia - A free encyclopedia written and reviewed by scholars around the world.
del.icio.us - One of the most popular bookmarking tools on the web, del.icio.us lets you bookmark websites and tag them for easy retrieval.
WhatsOnMyBookshelf - This site allows you to meet people with similar reading interests and trade books using a simple point system.
5. Networking
Facebook - Facebook was started for students and is still one of the finest social networking sites for students on the web.
YackPack - YackPack lets you record and store audio messages that only a select group of people can access--a great way to communicate with fellow classmates.
The Campus Center - This social networking site is great for students wishing to connect with other people in their major and create study groups with people around the world.
Campus Bug - Campus Bug is a social learning network that provides education and social networking tools.
The Student Center - A networking and student resource site just for students from Student.com.
