critiqueme.com Ever Wonder What People Are Not Telling You? Get constructive, anonymous feedback from your peers more info Our 100% anonymous question and answer network allows you to ask anyone anything and get completely truthful responses even about things they would never tell you directly. Questions Asked Today Trunk Spotlight: Turn Your Evernote Notes Into Flashcards with StudyBlue Finals are just around the corner, which means it’s crunch time. If you’re a student, then you’ve been saving your notes and class handouts in Evernote. Now, imagine if you could quickly and seamlessly transform your class materials into flashcards. Evernote’s integration with StudyBlue lets you do just that. StudyBlue + Evernote: Digital flashcards, study reminders and more Evernote helps you keep everything in one place so that you can access your notes, files, and scanned handouts from any device.
20+ Tools to Create Your Own Infographics A picture is worth a thousand words – based on this, infographics would carry hundreds of thousands of words, yet if you let a reader choose between a full-length 1000-word article and an infographic that needs a few scroll-downs, they’d probably prefer absorbing information straight from the infographic. What’s not to like? Colored charts and illustrations deliver connections better than tables and figures and as users spend time looking back and forth the full infographic, they stay on the site longer. Plus, readers who like what they see are more likely to share visual guides more than articles. While not everyone can make infographics from scratch, there are tools available on the Web that will help you create your very own infographics. In this article, we’re listing more than 20 such options to help you get your messages across to your readers, visually.
Exams: how to plan ahead with a perfect revision plan Last week I blogged about how I’d been to Larbert High School and talked to some S5 pupils about preparing for and dealing with exams. In that post, I offered my general tips for reducing the harmful stress that can come with exams. I also talked about how training for exams is just like training for a big sporting competiton or match – your body and brain are your temple! Today, I want to talk about planning ahead. It’s the key to achieving your potential. 20 Best Websites to Help Plan Your College Experience A simple Google search for “college planning” yields over 80 million results. Narrow the search field to “college planning websites,” and you get over 5 million hits. While information for college planning and research is out there, the sheer number of search results makes it daunting to find quality and reliable websites.
10 Tips for (journalists) Designing Infographics This article was originally published on “Digital Newsgathering”, a class blog for Journalism 226 at San Francisco State University, Instructor: Staci Baird. I wrote this post as a guest author, and with permission I am republishing it here. Assuming you’re not working for a media corporation with huge graphics and statistics departments at your disposal, you may want to create some infographics for your own articles. With today’s flood of information, infographics allow readers to quickly digest and understand complex data. Coping with exams - tips for wellbeing and performance It’s that time of year again, as some of you need no reminding. There are schools with stressful, shouty posters saying 20 DAYS TO GCSEs, which is really hardly necessary – and, in my opinion, could well be detrimental. Most students’ stress levels are perfectly high enough. What students and their parents need is calm, knowledgeable advice and genuinely useful tips.
9 Ways You Can Improve Your Infographic Pitches to Blogs & Websites Over the past year, I’ve worked on approximately 20 different infographics for a single client. One of the most frustrating things about the process has been the unevenness of the response. Even if we do everything seemingly right, an infographic might not take off. Sleep, exams and holidays Sleep, exams and holidays have a difficult and yet very important relationship. Exams negatively affect sleep, with both anxiety and the brain-racing nature of revision and preparation getting in the way of a good night’s sleep and also with many students pushing their work into the later hours of the evening, because they feel that’s the only way to get it done.Poor sleep negatively affects exams, not because tiredness makes us function below par (in fact adrenalin is likely to over-ride that on exam day) but because good sleep positively affects learning. When we learn something, the next sleep helps process that learning into long-term memory. I write about sleep quite often – see most recently Positively Teenage – and am up to speed with all the current research, including how the sleep boosts the learning ability of the brain and how to get the best sleep possible. I’m going to be writing about it again at greater length – details soon!
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