Best Websites for College Students
April 10, 2008 – 11:05 am by Nick1) Textbooks: The price of college textbooks has gone up 186% since 1986. Poor students have to pay inflated prices for books, which might be scarcely used. Book Finder allows you to compare prices on 125 million books from 4,000 sellers. It is easily the best website to score cheap books. Students should also try to users on Facebookâs college groups, who are willing to sale their books. Textbook411 is also great website to buy or sell texbooks.
2)Ottobib :
Bibliographies are a pain to prepare, especially when you are running against the clock. Ottobib creates bibliographies automatically. You simply enter the ISBN numbers of all the books, and the site retrieves the information. Also check out Bibme, featuring a more user friendly interface.
3)mynoteIT and Notecentric:
These sites have been built specifically for students. They offer students a note-taking app (autosaving, dictionary, thesaurus), calendar with group scheduling, classmates/friend listing, class management, community search and bookmarking. You can try out any of the sites to see which one suites your needs. We prefer Notecentric because it automatically links you to your classmates via your university email.
4)Meebo is an online instant messaging service which enables you to chat with friends through AIM, Yahoo! messenger, Gtalk and MSN.
5)Google Docs is the best solution for group projects because multiple users can alter a document at the same time. It is also a prefect place to backup your documents in case your laptop gets stolen or malfunctions. Google Docs is compatible with most documents, spreadsheet and presentation formats. Google Calendar is also a good tool to organize meet-ups.
6)Zoho Show 2.0 is an impressive presentation tool. A great alternative to PowerPoint. It also allows you to post your presentations online and access them remotely.
Cramster is a 24/7 Study Community for Math, Engineering, Physics and Chemistry. It features book search and great users.
