Web+Tools+for+Students

**http://www.evernote.com/** **http://notely.net/** **http://www.mygrademate.com/** **http://backpackit.com/** Study Better @http://www.studyrails.com/view/render_page StudyRails is perfect for those who have trouble blocking out distractions when it comes time to study. The site lets users schedule study time and alerts them (by text message) when it is time to drop everything and hit the books. @http://www.diigo.com/ When you are reading books for class, you probably use a highlighter and sticky notes to mark off the passages that are of particular note to what you are studying. This site allows the user to perform and save these same tasks online. [] There is a slight learning curve involved, but once you get use to them, one of the best ways to organize your thoughts and research is through mind maps.**
 * Stay Organized **
 * Evernote is one of the best note taking applications available, allowing you to sync notes between the web, your phone, and any computer.**
 * Notely is a complete, end-to-end solution for taking notes and staying organized. Students are provided with a course and assignment calendar, note-taking tools, and to-do lists. Notely can keep you on top of your schoolwork and assure that you never miss a due date.**
 * GradeMate is a free online organizer made with students in mind. With it you can create to-do lists, manage due dates, keep track of grades, and even collaborate with fellow students.**
 * Initially designed for business users, Backpack is also a great way for students to keep research organized. Backpack is sort of like a single page wiki that lets you keep files, images, notes, and to-do lists in a single place and share them with fellow student.

@http://docs.google.com/?pli=1 Google Docs is one of the best online word processing and spreadsheets applications available, and it offers great collaboration features that allow you to work together on group assignments. @http://etherpad.com/ EtherPad takes collaborating on written documents to a completely new level by allowing a group of people to edit a document at the same time and actually see what everyone else is writing //as they write it//. When used by multiple people meeting in person or combined with a VoIP app like Skype, EtherPad can be an amazing collaboration tool for group studying or hashing out who is doing what on a group project.
 * Work and Collaborate **

@http://www.sliderocket.com/ It would be hard to get through your school career without being required to give a presentation, and one way to make your presentation more memorable is with a great set of slides. SlideRocket is an awesome online presentation building tool that lets you create beautiful, multimedia-rich presentations that are accessible from anywhere. Also check out Empressr.

@http://www.wikidot.com/ If you’re working in a group project, you’ll want to keep everyone on the same page, and one of the best ways to organize your thoughts as a group is by using a wiki. WikiDot is a great, simple, wiki hosting solution that students can utilize to create an unlimited number of wiki pages to organize their projects and group research.

Cite Right @http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=23927330784 This Facebook application from the Online Computer Library Center lets you search the world’s largest library catalog by title, author, subject, or ISBN and get properly formatted citations in APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA, or Turabian style.

@http://www.easybib.com/ EasyBib is one of the most popular online bibliographic tools, letting you automatically create citations in APA, Chicago/Turabian, and MLA styles. Over 218 million citations have been generated using the site since 2001.

@http://www.zotero.org/ If need to cite your work in a more obscure style, then check out Zotero. This Firefox extension automatically collects your research sources and then lets you create citations in any of one of over a thousand different styles. Zotero also lets you take notes on your sources and is available in over 30 different languages. Also check out Ottobib