Audio Books – Resources

December 2, 2009

Audio Files

Free

 http://librivox.org/

 http://www.openculture.com/2006/10/audio_book_podc.html

 http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/

 www.itunes.com

Paid

www.audible.com

http://www.audiobooks.com/

www.playaway.com

www.itunes.com

Writing – MLA Formatting

December 2, 2009

MLA Formatting

 http://www.mla.org/style – gives you an overview of MLA formatting

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/ – very good website that walks through all aspects of MLA writing

http://webster.commnet.edu/MLA/format.shtml – nice outline for MLA formatting

http://www.calstatela.edu/library/guides/3mla.pdf – has a sample paper to follow 

Works Cited Page

 www.easybib.com – will format your bibliography after you input information – will export into Word or you can copy and paste it

 http://citationmachine.net/ – similar to easybib – you put in the information it will create the citation for you

 http://webster.commnet.edu/MLA/preparing.shtml – gives you the information necessary for creating a bibliography

 http://www.studyguide.org/MLAdocumentation.htm – has lots of examples of bibliographic information

Study Skills – Flashcards

December 2, 2009

Study Skills – FlashCards

 http://www.flashcardmachine.com/ – free program – username/password so that students can share flashcards

 http://quizlet.com/ – free program – can do the same as the other – has numbers of sets of flashcards made – including for ACT/SAT that can be accessed

 http://flashcarddb.com/

 http://www.muchobeets.com/

 http://www.flashcardexchange.com/

 Math Flashcards

 http://www.aplusmath.com/flashcards/sub-flash.html – basic skills

 http://www.apples4theteacher.com/flash-cards.html – basic skills

 Vocabulary Flashcards

http://www.vocabulary.co.il/vocabulary_flash_cards.html

http://studybeans.com/vocabulary/ – flashcards and quizzes

Plaigiarism – Resources

December 2, 2009

Plagiarism

http://www.plagiarism.org/ -gives an overview of plagiarism and the various types of plagiarism

http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/plagiarism.html – gives a nice overview and why teachers/professors are so concerned about it

Examples of Plagiarism

http://webster.commnet.edu/mla/plagiarism.shtml – very helpful examples of what is plagiarism and how to avoid it

https://www.indiana.edu/~istd/examples.html – examples of plagiarism and how to correct it

http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/plagiarism/famous-examples-of-plagiarism.html – famous examples of plagiarism

Avoiding Plagiarism

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/01/ – gives an overview on how to avoid plagiarism in a paper

http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml – how to recognize and avoid plagiarism

Plagiarism Checker

 http://www.turnitin.com/static/index.html – ask your teacher for a username and password

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