HELPFUL LINKS

Check out these helpful links to FREE online programs for studying, college searches, productivity, and organization:

​DEER PARK SCHOOLS

Deer Park Schools

http://www.deerparkschools.org

Click here for Mrs. Perry-Eising's eBoard.

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VIDEO CREATION & FILMING TUTORIALS
Media College
http://mediacollege.com
This is a site that hosts a number of video production tutorials such as framing shots, camera angles, filming rules, etc. There are also articles about news writing and photography.



STUDY HELP
Quizlet
http://quizlet.com
This is a site that helps you to study for tests. It lets you create flash cards, perform studying drills, and take practice tests.

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COLLEGE RESEARCH
CampusExplorer
http://www.campusexplorer.com/
This online tool is a great research tool for tuition fees, universities and colleges in a particular city, school size, male to female rations and acceptance rates.

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NOTE TAKING & ORGANIZATION
Evernote
http://www.evernote.com
Evernote helps you to take notes and be organized. A "note" can be a piece of formatted text, a full webpage or webpage excerpt, a photograph, a voice memo, or a handwritten "ink" note. Notes can also have file attachments. Notes can be sorted into folders, then tagged, annotated, edited, given comments, searched and exported as part of a notebook. There is a free and paid version. It can be used on your computer or mobile device.

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PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS
Google Docs
http://www.google.com (More tab)
This is a link to Google Documents. Using Web 2.0 technology, Google Documents is a free set of online applications such as word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations. It allows you to create and save these documents online so that you can access them anywhere at any time. It allows you to save them as Microsoft Office files and download them. It allows you to share your files with those who you invite to work collaboratively. You can also use the Google calendar feature to keep yourself organized and you can share the calendar with others.



Zoho
http://zoho.com/
Zoho is a well rounded online office productivity suite of applications. They are a leader in shifting all documents to the online space for easy accessibility. Zoho's office suite includes these free online applications:
Zoho Writer – online word processor with spell check
Zoho Sheet – spreadsheets that can be created and shared
Zoho Show – create, edit and publish presentations
Zoho Meeting – share desktops, hold online meetings and web conferences
Zoho Notebook – create and collaborate on content
Zoho Planner – organize and maintain to-do's, reminders and notes



OpenOffice
http://www.openoffice.org
As an alternative to the online office applications, Open Office is a free powerful office suite of desktop applications. It includes everything you could possibly need to get your work done straight from your desktop:
Writer - a text editing platform
Impress - for multimedia presentations
Calc - for spreadsheets
Draw - graphics package
Base - for manipulating database data
Math - for performing mathematical equations



ORGANIZATION
mySchoolog
http://www.myschoolog.com/
This online application tracks and organizes school lives. Lessons are entered and organized into categories, with weekly schedules built by dragging and dropping lesson planners and times for each class. There is a to-do list where appointments and homework lists can be made and the ever important reminders can be set and sent out via SMS or email.