Resources Guide

Here's a quick guide to the Academic Resources links: Free Productivity Tools Documents, Presentations & Spreadsheets Google Docs:  This website has online equivalents to all Microsoft Office programs, but you can access your files from anywhere you can get online.  You can also "share" files with others for group collaboration.  Recognizes all Microsoft Office formats.  Say goodbye to your flash drive! Open Office:  If you don't always have access to the internet, this website has down-loadable equivalents to all Microsoft Office programs, but you can access your files from anywhere you can get online.  You can also "share" files with others for group collaboration.  Recognizes all Microsoft Office formats. Bibliographies Bibme: This website creates bibliographies for you in MLA and other formats. Just input key data (or have it find it for you) and it will autofill the rest. You can create a perfect bibliography ready for printing in just minutes. Mindmaps & Process Charts Webspiration: This online tool creates mindmaps, flow charts and process charts.  Like Google Docs, you can collaborate with others. Surveys SurveyMonkey:  This website allows you to create free, professional online surveys in a variety of formats with excellent analysis tools that save you time doing the math and graphs to analyze your results. References Synonym.com: A synonym-finder tool. Dictionary.com: It's a dictionary. C.W.P. Resources Politifact.com & Factcheck.org: both these award-winning sites check political and media statements for their relative truthfulness.  Project Censored: This organization yearly publishes the list of the 25 most overlooked "censored" news stories of the year. An interesting site for anyone interested in contemporary world problems. CIA Factbook: This is the best resource for any and all traditional statistical data about a country in the world. Need to know major exports for Angola? It's there. Percent of the population under 30 in Madagascar? It's there. Just select the country you're interested in from the drop down toolbar. Register to Vote!: At the Secretary of State's website, you can register to vote online if you have a driver's license. Making sure your voice is heard has never been so easy. World Newspapers:  This website has news resources in English from every country in the world.  Beware, they are not listed in order of usefulness.  For instance, in the U.S. section the New York Times might appear below Living on the Peninsula.  Make sure to browse. State Dept. Country Notes: This website is similar to CIA Factbook, but has more narrative analysis.  Less statistics, more story & analysis.  Sometimes easier to get a sense of the country. S.A.T. & Vocab Help Spark Notes: Along with useful summaries of just about every academic topic imaginable, Spark Notes has a free online SAT prep section. The downside is you have to pay to download sample tests (which are the key to doing well). I still recommend a full SAT prep book, but if you can't afford it, or get around to it, this is a good stand-in. FreeRice: This website is a vocab quiz with a socially conscious twist. Sponsored by the Berkman Center at Harvard and the United Nations World Food Program, each time you correctly answer a vocab question rice is donated to the UNWFP. Vocab levels range from basic to stump the English teacher. There are also quizzes over other academic subjects. Studying for the SATs never did so much good. P.E. Resources Map My Run: This website is a great tool for figuring out how far you have run, or creating new running routes.  Using Google Earth technology, you can easily map and figure out the exact distance of any running route.  You can also see suggested running routes for anywhere in the world posted by other users.  Visiting Bellingham and need a good run?  This site will have a variety of runs of different lengths.