I have to say when I first looked through this app I was a little concerned that teachers could just pick from a set of pre-loaded comments to appraise the students in their care.I had a fleeting moment of forgetfulness I suppose because thinking back to my pre-computer schooldays things were pretty much the same. Well they were in the case of my math teacher who could have saved himself a lot of time by getting a couple of rubber stamps made containing the phrases, "is easily distracted" or "could do better."With practically every other activity you can think of now made easier ... Read more
This is not so much an app really but more like a fantastic way for schools to access a veryimportant tool for the improvement of literacy amongst its pupils.This comprehensive testing system is coupled with a number of detailed reports to enableteachers to gauge the true reading age of pupils in their care. It goes without saying thatall of data that ends up on the site is securely encrypted to industry standards. On top ofthat, and consistent with any activity involving minors, anyone with access to it is fully CRBchecked (Criminal Records Bureau).The scale of the tests covers ˈListen and ... Read more
If you can rattle on expertly over the telephone on a particular subject then you could earn money doing it on this site. Read more
Life on campus can often throw up any number of worrying issues for students. Add to that a feeling of isolation and the worry just intensifies so a site like spillnow.com is a worthy model for all students to get to know. Read more
I suppose if you’re going to spread your profile and expertise around the World Wide Web then you may as well do it over as many free sites as you can and there are certainly a good many of them. Naymz is another addition to the ˈsocial networking for businessˈ arena and promises to build your online professional brand. Read more
One dictionary definition of the word brazen is shameless! Another one of course is bold and I suppose they both sum up the attitude of young ambitious high flyers clambering over each other as they jostle for a position on the ladder. Read more
So much of a pilot's training these days is done through flight simulators. How will a novice pilot know how to react if something goes wrong than by putting them through the worst case scenario situation of a plane crash. Programr is virtually a flight simulator for computer programmers. It's the world's very first online learning social computer laboratory for the computer programmer. Read more
Oozyo is a networking management tool that I need! If I could only remember the various passwords and usernames I have for my accounts I'd be a very happy man. What tends to happen is I just click on the forgotten password button and do it that way. It doesn't have to be like that though. Oozyo, among many other things, let's you put all your usernames and passwords securely online so they are available to you wherever there is an Internet connection. Bliss! Are you always searching for your computer usernames, passwords and valuable client information etcetera? Stop ... Read more
As if students don't have a hard enough life anyway there is always the added cost of textbooks and what to do with them when you don't need them anymore. Usually, it's just advertising at your college or university, but you won't get much for them as there are plenty of others selling theirs too. Or you buy and sell them through booksellers leaving you open to bad customer service and hard to read websites. Fairbooks is an education selling tool that buys and sells textbooks at a much better rate than it's competitors. Fairbooks makes textbook buyback work ... Read more
The developing world misses out on a lot of what the rest of us take for granted and high on the list of these imbalances must surely be higher education. Vittana is trying to put this right and although currently only a small drop in a large ocean looks to be setting an admirable example with its student loan model. Read more