Citation Guide

Here is a basic citation guide for potential sources used in any formal paper. Purdue University's instructions are clear and reliable. They are also up-to-date at a time when everything is always changing.

This tool can help to enhance the overall experience of students who, while writing a paper, might need additional help on how to cite certain sources. It's incredibly complicated to keep track of the various sources' particular rules regarding citation.

By providing my students with the website at the beginning of the year, I could avoid wasting precious time on small details like the year and publishing company of texts in class. The information is already laid out in simple terms for them to use at this site.

Free Harvard Course Online

Harvard is providing a free online class on ethical justice. A free class is always awesome, but a free class from a prestigious ivy league school like Harvard is really awesome. It provides video feed of the lectures for each week and the supplemental readings that go along with it.

This improves the effectiveness of learning by offering a potentially inspiring and invigorating experience for students who are caught up with regular school work in class. By telling the students about this website, they are made aware that you are looking out for free and interesting ways to enrich their educational experience outside of the classroom.

I would use this in my classroom much like the online etymology dictionary, showing my students at the beginning of the year so that they knew investigating the class online was an option.

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Online Etymology Dictionary

This online etymology dictionary is really convenient and fun for various students and teachers. Knowing where words come from is certainly entertaining, but it can also help derive the meanings of other words.

This improves the effectiveness of learning because of its convenient online location. The simplicity of the website also makes finding the root or history of any word possible and easy.

I could use this in my classroom as a resource for my students. Solely letting them know of this site could be helpful and also educationally entertaining.

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