2008 Woodie Awards
Web site of the week special: Best College Student Sites
Jay Baker
Issue date: 2/27/07 Section: Technology
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Notemesh.com
Notemesh works like Wikipedia but for your classes. The idea is that students in a class log on to Notemesh and contribute to, review and correct the collaborative class notes. When you register your class, Notemesh creates a wiki that everyone else who signs up can edit. This way, everyone can collaborate and work together to ensure that no one gets left behind, despite your lack of attendance or poor note-taking skills.
Ottobib.com.
This is perhaps one of the best sites I've found in my searching. It's not pretty, it's not very fast and I don't like the name ... but it simplifies and streamlines one of the most hated parts of college life: writing bibliographies. All you do is enter the ISBNs (the number below the bar code) of your books and Ottobib puts them in the right order and format for MLA, APA or Chicago/Turabian. After that, you just cut and paste onto your works cited page.
Bubbl.us
Bubbl offers a great way to collaborate on group projects visually. Bubbl lets you and your classmates collaborate on projects by creating visual flow charts in a slick flash presentation. It's great for brainstorming, since you can keep track of all the ideas your group comes up with in a clean, easy-to-use presentation. Better yet, they won't disappear when you erase the whiteboard or lose your notes.
Ratemyprofessors.com
Plenty of students have heard of this one and so have plenty of professors. Ratemyprofessors allows students to do just that, rate their professors. You can rate them on helpfulness, clarity, easiness and even hotness. While the ratings are not statistically accurate (which the site clearly notes), they represent the opinions of students who have previously taken the course and can help you decide if the professor's teaching style will suit you. Most everyone can think of a course they took despite their friend's warning about the professor and later regretted. Now, you can avoid this for most all your classes as a good number of UTM professors are rated.
Wikipedia.org
Most of us have heard that Wikipedia should not be used as a source, well it shouldn't. But that doesn't mean it should be discounted completely. The majority of articles are spot on. More importantly, they reference their sources, which tend to be from peer-reviewed journals and you should definitely reference peer-reviewed journals in your papers. Wikipedia makes a great starting point for your papers. Also, have you ever heard some obscure bit of pop culture referenced by your friends or favorite TV show, only to e left in the dark? Well have no fear as Wikipedia has a page for virtually every bit of Americana and global pop culture imaginable.
Notemesh works like Wikipedia but for your classes. The idea is that students in a class log on to Notemesh and contribute to, review and correct the collaborative class notes. When you register your class, Notemesh creates a wiki that everyone else who signs up can edit. This way, everyone can collaborate and work together to ensure that no one gets left behind, despite your lack of attendance or poor note-taking skills.
Ottobib.com.
This is perhaps one of the best sites I've found in my searching. It's not pretty, it's not very fast and I don't like the name ... but it simplifies and streamlines one of the most hated parts of college life: writing bibliographies. All you do is enter the ISBNs (the number below the bar code) of your books and Ottobib puts them in the right order and format for MLA, APA or Chicago/Turabian. After that, you just cut and paste onto your works cited page.
Bubbl.us
Bubbl offers a great way to collaborate on group projects visually. Bubbl lets you and your classmates collaborate on projects by creating visual flow charts in a slick flash presentation. It's great for brainstorming, since you can keep track of all the ideas your group comes up with in a clean, easy-to-use presentation. Better yet, they won't disappear when you erase the whiteboard or lose your notes.
Ratemyprofessors.com
Plenty of students have heard of this one and so have plenty of professors. Ratemyprofessors allows students to do just that, rate their professors. You can rate them on helpfulness, clarity, easiness and even hotness. While the ratings are not statistically accurate (which the site clearly notes), they represent the opinions of students who have previously taken the course and can help you decide if the professor's teaching style will suit you. Most everyone can think of a course they took despite their friend's warning about the professor and later regretted. Now, you can avoid this for most all your classes as a good number of UTM professors are rated.
Wikipedia.org
Most of us have heard that Wikipedia should not be used as a source, well it shouldn't. But that doesn't mean it should be discounted completely. The majority of articles are spot on. More importantly, they reference their sources, which tend to be from peer-reviewed journals and you should definitely reference peer-reviewed journals in your papers. Wikipedia makes a great starting point for your papers. Also, have you ever heard some obscure bit of pop culture referenced by your friends or favorite TV show, only to e left in the dark? Well have no fear as Wikipedia has a page for virtually every bit of Americana and global pop culture imaginable.
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