Study skills and content area links
Select a topic to view avilable links.
Chemistry
http://www.chemtutor.com/
basic information provided for high school and college students. It can help you review the basics.
Computer Terminology
http://whatis.techtarget.com/
So you thought an ASP was Cleopatra’s pet? It’s also an Active Server Page. Find out more about this and other Internet terms from @ to ZV port by checking this webpage. Links to “New Technology” and “Cyberculture” may be of interest.
Excel
http://www.usd.edu/trio/tut/excel/
a tutorial on the Excel spreadsheet. It covers the basics such as types of data and specific formulas. There’s even a practice quiz.
French/German/Spanish
http://www.vokabel.com/
Practice vocabulary tests. It keeps track of your score for you. Categories of words include business vocabulary, animals, weather, travel, professions, and more. There’s a section on verbs, and you can also make up practice exams.
How to study foreign languages
http://www.howtostudy.org/resources_subject.php?id=11
very practical tips for studying languages
More Spanish
http://spanish.about.com/?once=true
lots of great links, including “about verbs,” “irregular verbs,” and “La Guía Rápida” (a quick guide to sports, news, and music or television Spanish-language sites on the Web).
Lots of Spanish
http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/SLC/index.php
exercises on verb conjugations, use of correct tenses, verb-preposition combinations, and translations of prepositional phrases.
Spanish
http://academic.emporia.edu/mooredwi/span/flshcrd.htm
electronic flash cards
Poetry
http://www.poets.org/
a keyword search feature. Need some inspiration? Need a quote for a paper? Just want to relax? Enjoy great art? At this site, you’ll find hundreds of poems to provide what you need.
Shakespeare
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/
So you didn’t get the bit about the asp? Check out the complete works of William Shakespeare at this site.
More Shakespeare
http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/default.htm
links to Shakespeare resources on the Internet and a fantastic search feature.
Calculators
http://education.ti.com/us/student/main.html
“software applications and programs available, as a non-commercial service to benefit TI graphing calculator owners.”
Graphics for the calculus classroom
http://www.ima.umn.edu/~arnold/graphics.html
Professor Douglas Arnold of Penn State University Park has animated demos of calculus graphs at this site.
Math
http://archives.math.utk.edu/topics/
40 links to topics ranging from algebra to calculus to industrial mathematics to the history of mathematics. There is a statistics link, too. Fractals fans, find fantastic IFSs here. Icons are used to indicate the minimum level of training expected for a reader of the links.
More math
http://mathforum.org/
lots of helpful information for math students and teachers.
Online Reference Resources
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/researchguides/matbytype/onlineref.html
numerous links to information about citation styles, dictionaries, encyclopedia, almanacs, travel resources, news, biographies, consumer information, Pennsylvania state government information, directories, and much more from Penn State’s LIAS system. This website is golden.
Learning styles
http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html
This site is an online, interactive version of Solomon and Felder’s “Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire.” You get instant feedback: explanations of your scores and the implications of your preferences. It’s a very good idea to analyze your approach to study. This site can help.
APA style
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
APA style links for research papers in the social sciences.
MLA style
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
MLA style links for research papers in the liberal arts.
Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab (OWL)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu
links to many useful online resources such as grammar explanations and online journals. Some parts of the site—writing lab schedules, for example—are useful for Purdue students only. However, the “Resources for Writers” section, has links to over 130 instructional handouts, help with English as a Second Language (ESL), and links to relevant sites for writing resources. This site is large, and it will not be useful as a last-minute resource when it is 3:00 a.m. and your paper is due at 8:00 a.m.0 But if you take some time to browse this OWL, you’ll find lots of help.
The Elements of Style
http://www.bartleby.com/141/index.html
the entire text of Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style, one of the best overviews of grammar and composition ever written.
Useful websites for argument and persuasion
http://academic.pg.cc.md.us/~wpeirce/MCCCTR/110urls.html
If you need links to research sites for public policy issues, media archives, and guidance for web searchers, you’ll find them, and more, here.
Logical fallacies
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/
What’s the difference between an Ad hominem and a horse laugh? This website will help you understand more fallacies than you ever knew existed. (Thanks to Prof. Lennox for sending this URL.)
Ask an Expert
http://www.cln.org/int_expert.html
links to dozens of experts in various areas such as math, science, computers, health and fitness, and careers.
Albert Einstein
http://www.westegg.com/einstein/
Lots of info about the Time Person of the 20th Century.
Aurora Borealis
http://finland.fi/Nature_Environment/aurora/index.html
Great links and a bibliography about the Northern Lights. Outstanding photos.
The Cave of Lascaux, France
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/
This site, which features the prehistoric art at Lascaux, might be just for fun, or you could use it to practice French, Spanish, or German. (You can select which language the page uses.) Students who are taking anthropology, geology, history, or geography might enjoy browsing this page. There are links to other caves with prehistoric art.
About Penn State
http://www.psu.edu/ur/about.html
This site gives you an overview of what Penn State is. Share this URL with family and friends. We are . . . an impressive university.
Space
http://www.sec.noaa.gov/
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) provides space weather alerts, so you can find out when to expect auroras, meteor showers, and more.
Birds
http://www.birdsource.org/index.html
When can you expect to see that first American Robin of spring? This site provides GIS maps of migrations and other birdy things.
Weather
http://www.met.psu.edu/weather/
The Penn State Department of Meteorology has a fascinating web page devoted to weather. Topics include observations, satellite and radar imagery, weather questions and answers, lots of interesting links, and forecasts.
Frank Lloyd Wright
http://www.franklloydwright.org/
Lots of links to photos and information about Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural masterpieces.
