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Flash Drives Make Great Learning Tools

Flash drives are more than just convenient storage media. They are also among the best ways to market your business and keep customers coming back. Students, business people, politicians, all of them have to take data with them wherever they go, and if the data happens to be stored on a device that displays your company name, so much the better.

Of course, using a flash drive as a learning tool is a great way to get parents to use your business, as well. Ball games, fairs and other public venues are a great place to distribute your flash drives to parents, who will then allow their kids to use them to store their school data. The parents will associate your business with the success that their child has in school, and will lead them to be very loyal customers.

Consider having the company from whom you buy your promotional drives load educational software onto the flash drive, as well.

It need not be anything extravagant, but a few small programs would be very handy for the kids to have with them wherever they go. Consider a small calendar program, on which they can track their homework, for example. Another great option is to load a basic calculator, conversion tables, multiplication tables, and a Fahrenheit to Celsius converter, as well. Small freeware dictionary programs are small enough to take up very little of the space on the drive, but will be invaluable to students using the drive for schoolwork. A thesaurus program would also make a welcome addition to such a device, especially for kids writing term papers or book reports.

The importance of learning tools for children is something that every parent understands. For that reason, every parent will appreciate whatever steps your business can take to ensure that their child succeeds.

Parents want to think that the businesses with which they interact have the best interests of their children in mind. Since it is the parents of the household who generally make the buying decisions, they will be your target audience. Of course, many adults have become all but immune to many advertising ploys, so targeting them through their children is the best way to get results. Providing educational aids for children is more than just a great marketing tool, of course. It will increase your credibility with the general public and generate even more business when people know that your business is going out of its way to provide working educational tools for the children in the community.

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Question by Nita: where to find good learning tools for anatomy classes?
I’d like to find diagrams that I can fill in to help me learn ( right now especially ones of the joints) I’m having troubles locating any online :) any help would be greatly appreciated! :D

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Answer by Kristin
One thing that you can do is to search google images for the sort of diagrams you want (so, knee diagram, etc.).

Another option is to cover over the labels in your textbook with post-it notes and practice labeling those diagrams. Making photocopies can be useful.

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Posted by University Guide - November 17, 2011 at 4:08 am

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Ten Great Writer Myspaces

I’m a big MySpace lover. And I am fascinated by writers and their writings and how online writing nowadays is mixed with offline writing. So here is my Top Ten List of Writer MySpaces, in no particular order:

The Writers Mafia Organization provides opportunities for young writers to become published authors. The Organization provides information, support and community, is hosting writing and participating in publishing projects,… The slogan is: “Create. Influence. Change.” They believe that “immortal words can help change the world”… and they live by their motto. One of their projects is Blurbings.com: reach a multitude of readers by promoting your name and book on other authors’ books, websites and profiles. Recently, Blurbings.com caused quite a stir in the world of publishing, when the NY Times and Guardian blogs joined the debate.

The Dark Poets Lair is a webbased literary society, moderated by three qualified individuals, and gathering, assisting and promoting to the best of their combined ability the quality poets and writers who are working on MySpace. They have a Poet of the Month, Creative Challenges, an Image & Word Merge,…

Black Widow. This is one of my two favorite poetesses I’ve found on MySpace, spinning her web of tales. She has a deadly bite and a fatal write and she says she’ll kill you with her words, but she’s okay. She’s sort of a New Age Type of Black Widow, a Spider Woman who has the Spirit : “It flows in and out of everything.” – And so is her poetry, flowing in and out of everything. This Black Widow is a Creator and a Mother “She created her own children, twin daughters and twin sons, who brought forth the sun, moon and stars. She created all vegetation, birds, animals and red, black, yellow and white people.”

The Portal Of Lust is an Erotic Playground MySpace where a fantasy can become a reality.  Erotic poetry, humour, games, short stories… you think about it, they’ve got it! The original Portal was deleted in November 2007 by the “Mywaste Patrol”, but hey… “You just can’t keep a good Freak down!” – An Adult site, but you will find here no XXX hardcore porn, pics, graphics or video clips.

Viola Bow writes frantically and on an almost daily basis. To date, she has had – outside MySpace – three poems published. She was nominated on the about.com poetry site in the interboard poetry competition, was runner-up in the MySpace Poet of the Year competition. She also is undertaking a poetry writing course through The Writing School in Australia. Viola writes with a passion that kills, breathless, with superb flowing rhymes and rhythms, stunning imagery, influenced by Sylvia Plath, Dylan Thomas, TS Elliot, E.A. Poe, Rimbaud,…

The Writer’s Services is a business specialized in proofreading and corrections for fiction and nonfiction, magazines, blogs,… Special knowledges of Criminal Justice, Criminology and Forensic Psychology, Cryptozoology, the Paranormal and the horror genre.

Steven Payette. The Trevor Samuels Mysteries are unique in that reader participation is encouraged. There is a question asked at the end of each novel, and it’s up to the reader to decide whether or not a character will make it into subsequent novels in the series of the veteran detective. I discovered the work of Steven Payette through his MySpace blog, that is a real Writer Resources Goldmine, with recent entries like: Warning Signs of Fraud, Defrauded by a Publisher?, How To Sell Your Novel More Than Once or The Importance of a Pre-Publication Marketing Plan.

Writers Together This is a MySpace by author C.L. Freire, and for authors across the globe. Because it is vital to be heard, the goal is to help as many authors in as many ways. So the site features authors and their work and the links to where theirs books can be purchased. It provides hundreds of links on writing in general or genre-specific, short fiction, interviews,… Or how you can do some self promoting by promoting others!

The mission of Wordplay Workshop is to gather a vast and diverse community of aspiring writers and artists in an interactive MySpace, where writers can offer honest and friendly criticism, where workshops can be hosted, improvisational poetry games, fun challenges and competitions,… A comfortable writing community designed for a new generation, that no longer idolizes a leader. So here come the battle MCs, rappers, lyricists, poetry podcasts and the spoken wordplay’s!

Meet the Authors of MySpace! A profile created to show the talents of authors on MySpace, to promote new releases, to network with other writers. A new book can be spotlighted for one week with a trailer on the New Books blog, where also interviews, events, calenders are being posted.

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Posted by University Guide - October 19, 2011 at 4:08 am

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Great Recommendation Letters Win Big Scholarship Bucks

Your scholarship application is due in ten days. It must have three recommendation letters attached, and, so far, you have not gotten any back from your teachers. A note to each of them last week hasn’t gotten any results. Talk

about strained nerves. All the work to get the application ready, and now letters are halting the process.

This is a scenario that repeats itself hundreds and thousands of times each year. You can avoid this problem by taking important appropriate actions. Start by asking for your recommendation letters at least six weeks in advance. This allows busy teachers to take their time in

writing great responses. After two weeks remind them with a note in their mailboxes. Seven days after that make a visit to their classroom. Remind them in person that your application could be late and disqualified and that you will come by in a few days to pick it up. Thank him or

her again and then stop by once more.

One way to avoid total mayhem is to ask for more letters than is really needed (awards may vary in the number of letters needed).If the requirement is two for an award, ask four people.

If you are applying for more than a couple of scholarship awards (and you really should be), ask the teacher or whoever, if they would be willing to put their comments on a CD.

Remind them that you will be sending out dozens of applications. It will save them time. Then, you will bring the letters by for their signatures. They can inspect the documents before you send them in. A hand-written signature is always best.

Who should you ask? Does it make a difference? Yes, it does matter. Know this: English and foreign language teachers generally write the best letters. They personalize them and may write from a half to a whole page. They also

produce results that have no spelling or grammatical errors. Again, and this is a general statement, coaches and physical education teachers write the shortest remarks and may have mistakes in spelling and grammar. But, go with your best options regardless of teaching position.

Use your high school letterhead, when possible.

Remember to ask your teacher if they can write a positive response. If not, move on. A probable scholarship winner fulfilled all requirements with a big plus and was in line to receive an ,000 award. Everything was super except for one recommendation letter. She assumed her coach would write a glowing response. He didn’t. Don’t

let that happen to you. She didn’t win.

Follow the same time-line for all requests, and remember this: everything in life is a decision, make the right ones today for your college scholarship success.

©2007 The Scholarship Doctor, Dale Clifton. All Rights Reserved. Dale is an educational consultant and expert at helping families win college scholarships, and aid school

systems in setting up winning scholarship programs.To learn more about winning awards, visit http://ScholarshipDoctor.com

or Email Dale@ScholarshipDoctor.com

Question by Madi: Do scholarships still work if you go to community college first?
I’m planning on using scholarships to pay for college. I get A’s and plan on applying for every scholarship I am eligible for. After high-school I was planning on going to community college for two years, taking a year off to save up some money, and then going to a four-year university. I was wondering if I get scholarships if I will still be able to use them after the three year break between high-school and a four-year university?

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Answer by Nicole H
It all depends on each scholarship. I won this great scholarship that paid for an entire year, something came up so I didn’t attend college for two years. They took the scholarship back. When applying check on the time limit and when it has to be used.

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Posted by University Guide - August 8, 2011 at 4:07 am

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