Scholastic

Graphing

• Graph Paper Generator– Make your own Graph Paper
• Plot.ly– A very rich online graphing tool.
• Spurious Correlations – Funny examples of how some graphs can be misleading

Statistics Calculators

• GraphPad Stat Calculators – Clean and user friendly.
• VassarStats – Ugly, but deep functionality.
• Statistics Calculators – Very extensive list of online calculators.  May be hard to parse for novice users.

Citations

• Citation Machine– makes correctly formatted citations, you pick the style and put in the info

File Conversion

• Zamzar– converts any file format to any other file format and email’s you the result

Office Suites

• Open Office– a free, software based alternative to Microsoft Office
• Zoho– a crazy comprehensive, web based suite of office applications
• Google Docs– a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation utility, drawing program and survey maker. Free with a google account.

Presentation Utilities

• 280 Slides– an online slideware maker.
• Prezi– Prezi is like the cool kid that Powerpoint wants to be when it grows up.

Time Management

• Google Calendar– Keep track of your life

.pdf viewers/makers

• Acrobat Reader– From the folks who created the .pdf
• Cute pdf– A program that allows you to create .pd files without purchasing adobe acrobat
• Primo pdf– Another free .pdf utility

Web-Site Creation

• Google Sites– make a website, as easy as a full featured html editor can be.
• WordPress – Another site for making websites

Web Browsers and E-Mail Clients

• Firefox– because Internet Explorer is terrible
• Google Chrome– because Firefox is getting a bit bloated
• Thunderbird– like Outlook, only free.

Operating Systems

• Ubuntu– the world’s most friendly Linux distribution

Web References

• Study Skills– Quite Comprehensive
• Reading Strategies– Textbooks aren’t always the easiest things to read
• WolframAlpha– Never be stumped by a math problem or anything requiring data ever again
• The Wikimedia Foundation– Wikipedia, Wiktionary, The Commons, so, so good!
• The Encylopedia of Life– Endeavors to have a page for every organism ever described by science.
• Archive.org– Where the internet is stored.
• Searchschool– Are you searching as efficiently as you could be?

Maps

• National Atlas
• Global Map Data – from the International Steering Committee for Global Mapping

Free Time

Media Players and Audio Utilities

• Songbird– like a free version of iTunes
• Audacity– a full-featured audio editor. You could make an album on this program
• VLC Media Player– Plays every kind of media file under the sun
• The Aviary Suite– I’m still shocked that this exists

Media

• Pandora– Makes radio stations that play songs like the ones you tell it to

Interesting Sites

• Lifehacker– Go here and you will learn something useful
• Boing Boing– Go here and you will learn something interesting
• Subzin – Find any movie quote
• If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel – Explore the actual size of the solar system

Arts & Crafts

• ReadyMech– Cardstock, printer, and patience are all that are required.
• Spirograph – It’s an online spirograph! Re-live your childhood.

Games

• The Kingdom of Loathing– An Adventurer is You!
• Freerice– Trivia that feeds hungry people
• GWAP– Games that make computers smarter
• Phylo– a collectible card game of life