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This page provides a variety of digital resources to support students both academically and organizationally.
This page provides a variety of digital resources to support students both academically and organizationally.
These two links will take you to a collection of links/videos providing how-to video tutorials on the vast number of educational and learning platforms students may use with online learning. These tutorials can be useful for parents, students and educators alike. Resources were compiled outside of RISD.
ProWritingAid is a free editing website that identifies various issues in a text including repetitiveness, vague wording, sentence length variation, over-dependence on adverbs, passive voice, over-complicated sentence constructions, and more. This can be helpful when editing/reviewing any essays you write. Just copy/paste!
Search Engines & Purposes
Search Engines & Purposes
Wolfram|Alpha (Links to an external site.)
WolframAlpha is a computational knowledge engine or answer engine. It is an online service that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from externally sourced "curated data" rather than providing a list of documents or webpages that could contain the answer, as a search engine might.
Yippy (Links to an external site.)
Yippy is a metasearch engine that clusters search results by topic for a more visual view of search results.
Google Scholar (Links to an external site.)
Google Scholar is a metasearch engine that indexes peer-reviewed, online academic journals, books, papers, patents, and other scholarly literature.
DuckDuckGo (Links to an external site.)
DuckDuckGo is an internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers’ privacy and does not profile users based on their search criteria.
Kiddle.co (Links to an external site.)
Kiddle is a visual search engine for kids powered by Google, offering safe-for-kids web, image, and video search.
FactMonster.com (Links to an external site.)
Fact Monster is a reference site for students, teachers, and parents. Note: Displays ads.
Academic Research:
Academic Research:
101 Free Online Journal and Research Databases for Academics (Links to an external site.)
News sites provide the most up-to-date information:
News sites provide the most up-to-date information:
http://news.google.com (Links to an external site.)
Search Engine Tricks
Search Engine Tricks
Search Engine Rule #1
Use quotation marks to search for exact matches.
If you know that you want to learn about the AVID College Readiness System, you can use quotation marks for “AVID College Readiness System.”
If you don’t, Google searches these words separately. Using quotation marks narrows down your search.
Note: You can also use a hyphen between the words to search for phrases.
Search Engine Rule #2
Use the plus (+) sign to require an exact match of the term.
Example: “Abraham Lincoln” +quotes gets fewer hits than: Abraham Lincoln quotes.
Note: the plus sign (+) must be next to the term with NO spaces.
Search Engine Rule #3
Use the minus (-) sign to exclude terms or phrases.
Example: cookies +recipes +chocolate -coconut
Note: The minus sign (-) must be next to the term with NO spaces.
Search Engine Rule #4
Use the @ and # signs to search for social media.
@avid4college #collegecolorsday
Search Engine Rule #5
Use two periods (..) between two numbers to search within a range of numbers. Use a dollar sign ($) to search for a product by price.
Chromebook $100..$300
iPhone $800
Distance learning is going to look and feel very different. Remembering SLANT can help make your online learning experience more engaging. It also shows respect to your teacher.
Distance learning is going to look and feel very different. Remembering SLANT can help make your online learning experience more engaging. It also shows respect to your teacher.
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