Online Resources
Here are some Great Resources we’ve found. Use the comment box at the bottom to add resources you know and love!!
Ten Ways of Thinking That Lead to Writing Procrastination ..And Rebuttals To Those Thoughts. Source: the Academic Ladder
Positive Affirmations for Academic Writers. Source: the Academic Ladder
Free Research Tools from the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University
- Zotero is a Firefox extension that makes it easy to gather, organize, annotate, search, and cite materials you find online and off.
- Omeka is a platform for online display of museum and other historical materials in a Web 2.0 environment.
- Syllabus Finder lets you find and compare syllabi from thousands of universities and colleges on any topic.
- Web Scrapbook stores all kinds of media items—URLs, images, text, and movies.
- Survey Builder helps you build online surveys, especially applicable to oral histories.
- Poll Builder builds customizable polls you can include on your web site for free.
- Scribe is a cool notetaking application designed with historians in mind.
Check out the Center for New History and Media for even more free applications!!
Activities & Exercises
Be sure to check out the blog posts to read about how we have used some of these activities and exercises. Drop a comment to add your own activities and tell us how you are using these tools and exercises in your work.
