The internet helps with homework by making it easy for students to find a specific topic all with a few clicks of the mouse. For example, I did a research paper on animals that live in Antarctica. I was able to type in those exact words in a search engine and click go. Within seconds I found hundreds of different sites that had information about animals that live in Antarctica. I was able to get statistics, graphs, pictures, and all the information I needed for my paper. I was also able to print out images to make a nice presentation as well. All of this was easy to do using ClearTVBundle.com to go online. My research paper was a breeze to do because the information I needed was all right in front of my face. After I gathered all the information I was even able to look up how to format it. I found a research paper template that walked me through writing the paper. I was even able to check my spelling and grammar. Within a few hours my research paper was ready to be printed and handed into my teacher.
Sometimes I am reading a blog or a web site and I notice there are links to other blogs, either in the post or article, or sometimes listed on the sidebar. So, if I have a little extra time in the morning, I like to click on these other links and see where they go. I have found quite a few really good sites this way.
That is basically how I ended up at the web site called, The Chronicle, which is a site about academia. I was interested in the part that listed job openings in different colleges and universities, and I happened across a whole section of related blogs.
From this site, I surfed over to the Walden University web site. Although I don’t know anyone who has attended Walden, it seems like a good school for someone who wants to get their college degree online from an accredited university.
If you are interested in completing the college courses that you started elsewhere, or maybe want to just look into a higher Education, then try out some of the links I just wrote about in this post.
Math was my favorite subject in school. As soon as my Kindergarten teacher started talking about numbers, I was intrigued. All through high school and college, math was the subject that kept me interested and motivated throughout the school year.
Over all those years, I had one teacher who was not a good teacher. He probably didn’t even want to be teaching Algebra but it was his job, so he showed up every day and assigned us a lot of homework. I didn’t mind the homework, but I wish he had displayed some enthusiasm for the subject.
Thankfully, the following year, my Geometry teacher was outstanding. She explained the Acute triangle and the Isosceles triangle on the very first day of class and we hit the ground running. It was all smooth sailing after that.
Understanding a Line segment is also vital to learning and using Geometry. Kids who have a problem with the basics can at least get help online if their own parents are not a good resource for homework help. Many parents took Geometry in high school but have forgotten how to work with Indices and other critical math skills. Rather than let the kids get frustrated and develop an aversion to math, I hope their parents will try online homework help and free math tutoring for their kids.
When I was a kid, we went to grade school from kindergarten through the sixth grade. Then we had junior high for seventh and eighth grade. High school was ninth through twelfth. The earliest that I remember any serious math work was in the fourth grade.
My fourth grade teacher was Mrs. Wiebert. She was extremely old school and when it came to 4th grade math, she wanted no part of the “new math” that was being taught. The new math was introducing kids to concepts that required visualizing the numbers rather than just memorizing flash cards.
We are adding fractions in our heads because we understood how the numbers related to the parts of a whole. This was actually a revolutionary for our time and now it is the normal process.
Kids today are solving equations as young as seven years old and learning advanced math in the second grade. If parents need help with the homework assignments their kids bring home, they can get online and sign up for free tutors and free homework help. When I was in school, we didn’t get any help unless we sat next to a smart kid in class.
When I was a teenager, no one I knew had even heard of teen rehab or teen addiction statistics. Sure, we had a health class in middle school where we watched videos about the dangers of drinking and doing drugs, but it was nothing like the DARE program that so many of the schools use now.
I think it is a really sad state of affairs that we are putting so much pressure on our teenagers nowadays to study so hard to get into college, telling them that if they don’t get into a good college then their lives will be ruined. I think that is the main reason for so much substance abuse and teen suicide! Of course, the social media now creates more intense peer pressure, too. Geez, life was so much simpler when I was a teenager!
At least I’m glad to know that there are teen drug rehab facilities for our struggling families. I do think that things would be a lot easier, though, if schools focused more on dealing with stress in healthy ways instead of putting so much pressure on them to succeed.
I don’t get very much “good” mail these days, but each month I do look forward to finding in my mailbox my Reader’s Digest that arrives faithfully year after year. My mother got me started on this wonderful monthly publication when I first moved out on my own she started a subscription for me and kept renewing it each year. It’s offered at a great bargain and it’s just plain good quality reading.
I have known a few people here and there throughout the years that are dealing with Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms and are always on the look out for good quality Multiple Sclerosis News. The more you know about a disease the better patient you will become all the way around. Knowledge is powerful medicine and the Internet brings a lot of that type of power to us, which is awesome. Of course you can’t believe everything that you read, we all grew up hearing that one, but you just need to use some common sense and if it sounds to good to be true then it is probably not true!
A close co worker of mine’s wife was just recently diagnosed with MS and he has been doing a good amount of research online during his free time at work. We are a close bunch so we are all learning along with him. As with most illnesses a good Multiple Sclerosis Diet and a good Multiple Sclerosis Exercise regiment is very important and plays an important part of the treatment plans. We found a great website at allaboutms.com that we have found a lot of good useful information and I would recommend that anyone who is dealing with any type of Multiple Sclerosis issues give it a look see.
This was a great story to read on Yahoo about a little girl born on the date of 8-9-10. The birth occurred at 11:12am. Too funny, right? What an easy birthday to have to remember each year. I was going to post the video about the special birthday girl but apparently there are copyright issues going on right now.
With so many people in the medical field and the numbers growing every day there will always be a need for medical attention, no matter how bad the economy gets. A good amount of people are going back to school seeking an education in some type of the medical field. It seems that where ever I go I see someone wearing either nursing uniforms and medical scrubs and most of them are wearing the clogs that have become so popular in the last decade.
Sometimes I’ll be in a drug store and see someone wearing something that looks like a lab coat and I’ll start talking to them as if they were employed and working there, only to find to my embarrassment that they are a customer but are wearing their medical uniforms which are better known as scrubs.
I mean folks that work in a doctor’s office, or dental practice, or in a pharmacy, or in medical records or in a nursing home or in any of the numerous departments at the local hospital are sporting this attire.It is good to see that they are making a larger variety of these uniforms, with all kinds of designs and patterns which must make it easier to tolerate having to wear this type of clothing day in and day out. I’ve seen them with balloons, Micky Mouse, frogs, happy faces just to name a few.
Recently our oldest son decided that he wanted to learn how to play the guitar. Naturally, the places that give lessons require that the students buy musical instruments instead of loaning them out. Fortunately for me, I still had my old acoustic guitar from when I was going through that “I want to learn to play the guitar” and I lent it to him for class. The teacher told him that he needed a new bridge, so I took it to the local music shop where the owner repaired it for free.
He continued with the guitar lessons for only about six weeks, and then decided not to continue after that. I sure was glad that we didn’t spend a lot of money buying him a new guitar! And now the guitar is packed away for the next time someone decides to give it a try!
It took me a while but I eventually got hooked up and started using my free Yahoo IM to chat with numerous friends and family. Now they are trying to get me to get on Face Book. My goodness, when will it ever end? Let me get comfortable on the IM and maybe one day I’ll tackle Face Book.
Every family needs a doctor, a lawyer, a mechanic and a computer geek to get by these days. I’ve gotten pretty good with the computer these past couple of years, but there is so much that I still don’t know and don’t know if I’ll ever learn or need to learn. I mean at work we have our IT people that are just a phone call away and my youngest brother, who lives pretty close by is the computer whiz of the family so I have plenty of support at my disposal. Of course my needs don’t always coincide with their schedules but we seem to work it out some how.
I can’t even imagine me needing to know about a dedicated server, or anything to do with managed hosting or colocation services in my type of career and/or personal computer needs. And if I need to know what colocation is all about, I’m a firm believer of Googling anything that I need to learn about. The Internet is such a wealth of knowledge just waiting to be taken advantage of by some one just like me.
Today’sdrug treatment and alcohol treatment center options have turned around big time in the past 15 years or so. With the economy is such a mess there is a growing need for drug rehab and alcohol rehab, not just for celebrities but for the common folk that are hurting big time with stress from finance issues. Back in the day, going into a treatment center meant going to a dirty, ugly, run down extension of some abandoned mental institute that doesn’t make for a pleasant stay during a difficult time in life while going through detox or drug or alcohol treatment.
Dr. Drew made a major impact in drug and alcohol rehab with his hit show (I think it was on VH1) that was on a few years ago concerning Celebrity Rehab and Celebrity Sober Living issues. It was an interesting series that I believe opened up a good amount of people’s eye to what is all involved in the detox and rehab process. It isn’t a pleasant sight but a necessary process that helps and needs to help so many more people that are in need in today’s wacky world.
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I guess now thatall of our kids have graduated college, our younger siblings have been asking for advice from us about how to get money for their kids to go to college.
Unfortunately for them, there seems to be more money available for the minority races through minority scholarships than through “regular” college scholarships! I know that for a fact myself because I was looking around for some college grants for my wife to go back to college and get a pharmacist’s degree!
As smart as my wife is, we will never be able to afford for her to go back to college – we depend too much on her income to survive. We’d never be able to survive while she was in school.
One word of advice I’d like to give people – go to college BEFORE you get get married and have children! It is so much easier when you are not bound to a specific location and have to support a family!
My sister and her husband are up in arms about their oldest child who is in dire need of one of the drug rehab centers near where they live. He has gotten in with the wrong crowd, it started right when he started attending Middle School, which is when a lot of kids start going down hill, as the statistics show us. My sister is busy finding information on the Internet concerning the drug rehabilitation programs that they would be able to hook him up with. The Internet certainly is making this task a much easier one to tackle and she is able to share her findings with friends and family who are into emailing and the like.
There are good quality addiction treatment centers available these days. With the economy is such a mess more people are turning to drugs and alcohol as an escape from all the heart aches that our government has gotten us all involved in. This country is in a major mess and we need all the help that we can get, especially in this aspect.
I feel for my sister’s family, I can only hope and pray that they find the right place for him and that he pulls through and can make something of himself and his life. He is a bright kid, always brought home great report cards and has a real apptitude for working with his hands. I wish them all the luck in the world, just wish I was closer so that I could be of more help with it all.
One of the things that I think is exceptional about the Internet is how small it has made the world. News that used to take months to travel around the globe now only takes seconds. Competition between businesses has increased many times over. And educational opportunities abound. I think that the educational opportunities is one of the most important aspects of today’s Internet and technological advances.
We’re going to need all the help we can get to solve the world’s troubles down the road. And many of those problem will require math skills to solve. There was a time when common belief was that girls were not good at math. But now anyone who is struggling with Math Problems only need to go as far as their nearest Internet connection to get the Math help that they need. There are many educational websites that are geared up to assist the struggling math student. With just a few clicks on the mouse, Algebra help is easily acquired. In many cases, the help is free!
Yes, the Internet has opened up many options to the world. I hope we make the best of it.
When J was between his junior and senior year in high school, we encouraged him to take a college course in statistics during the summer. We reasoned that since he was so advanced in his courses (taking college level courses) and statistics was not available in his school, that he would have a leg up and head start in college this way.
And, since my wife had taken statistics herself at the same college, and still had her statistics books, we figured that she could act as a Statistics tutor if J should need any Statistics help during the course. There were a couple of times that J asked for help with some of the Statistics problems that he had as homework, and my wife was glad she had kept her book! The book she had for her course was a lot easier to understand than the textbook J had been assigned! So it was good that he had her old one to reference when he needed help!
I have always found it interesting how many different people struggle with different academic subjects. For example, my biggest problems in school were in Chemistry and in Geometry. For the life of me I couldn’t do well in those classes! Although I found it relatively easy to pass most math courses, sometimes I feel that I really didn’t learn much about the problem solving process – I just memorized a lot of formulas. Lucky for me, I’ve found that the Internet is a great source for brushing up on a variety of subjects.
For example, even though I took statistics in school, it has been many years since I studied it. I’m sure that if I really needed to apply what I learned, I would be in for a real struggle. But there are great websites, such as the tutorvista.com website that is designed to give Statistics help to students that I think I could use to help me with any Statistics problems that I might stumble upon as I go through life. I think it’s great; having a Statistics tutor right in your own home, with just a click of the mouse to get the help you need!
My wife says that I have a hard time dealing with change. I have to agree with her – I like things to stay the same. I like to sit in the same chair at supper. I like to leave the house in the morning knowing what is for supper, and if plans change and that supper doesn’t happen, I don’t like it. Even if the food is something I like even better! I know that there are a lot of people like that out there. I wonder why people are so uncomfortable with change. Why should it upset me when I get home and find that supper is even better than I thought it would be? I know that children need a structured routine to be comfortable; I wonder if we ever really outgrow that?
My niece is expressing an interest in various Musical Instruments these past few years. Next year she will be entering middle school and will be able to take music lessons with real Flutes and Clarinets like the big kids. I’m sure my sister will be happy with any wind instrument, as long as it doesn’t have anything to do with Drum Sets. There is nothing worse than having to listen to a kid on a loud instrument like the Drums, the Cymbals or God forbid something like the Trombone.
We used to have a nice basement in the house that we grew up in. It was pretty much sound proof and we did all kinds of crazy and loud things in that house. But the house that my sister currently lives in is pretty small and really couldn’t hold anything large in size anyway. Of course there is always the garage though………….
We do come from a very musical family, so there is hope that she will be accomplished in some type of musical instrument of some sort. It’s all good.
My wife tells me that she has found a website that can give piano lessons! I thought that was remarkable, so I asked her to show me the website. This site actually has videos showing you how to play the piano! I’ve always wanted to take piano lessons but when I was a child my parents said that there was no room in the house for a piano and they couldn’t afford to pay for piano lessons anyway!
Well, now I see that I could use this online method to learn on my younger son’s keyboard that he left behind when he went to college! I think that maybe I’ll give it a try. I’ve got plenty of time and nothing to lose. This should be interesting!
One of the things that I think is great about the age of the Internet is how easy it is now to get services that once were hard to find. For example, when my kids were in school, they were often making and receiving phone calls after school from other classmates who needed Math help. Our youngest son even became a Math Tutor in his senior year in high school!
Now I understand that students can access Free Online Tutoring when they need help with their studies. I think that is a really wonderful thing, as long as the students have access to the Internet! You would not believe how many people I meet around here that tell me that they don’t have Internet access at their house! I don’t think my family could survive without it at this point in time; it is so heavily intertwined in the running of the family!
My wife has been encouraging me to consider investing in gold when we get our insurance settlement money. She seems to think that putting some of our money in gold would be a good hedge against the stock market dropping again. I have to admit that I have always considered gold as a suspect when it came to investing money. I know that the price of gold can fluctuate too.
But my wife keeps telling me that investing in gold as a way to diversify our portfolio is a sound decision. She keeps telling me that it is never wise to put all of your eggs in the same basket, and that we need to spread our money out so that if one investment does poorly then the other might take up the slack and do well. I have to admit that there is a lot of logic in that reasoning. Diversification is a good way to protect ourselves financially.
When our nephew Travis needs Math help with his homework, he often calls us up and asks us to help him out. We have a scanner and fax machine so sometimes he will fax his homework over to us to review so we can see what the problem is if he can’t explain it well over the phone. Lately he seems to calling us every night, so I’m going to suggest to his parents that they sign him up for Free online math tutoring. I think that with an Online math tutor Travis might actually learn a little bit more than simply running over his homework assignment with us.
I think that having Free online math help is a wonderful service to have for children that are struggling with math. I know that a lot of kids don’t really understand how important math will be to them when they are adults, and I think that the Online math tutoringprograms can make it more fun to learn than just some old coot like me trying to help them to understand the concepts behind the homework problems. I wish that there had been free Online math help for me when I was growing up!
Isn’t technology wonderful when it works? And it’s absolutely hateful when it doesn’t work the way it is supposed to! I’ve been around long enough to know that computer glitches are the work of the technology demons that hover over and around everyone who uses the computer. At any moment the blue screen of death could appear! In the not too distant past, even minor computer glitches could paralyze an office for a day or two; waiting for the “computer guy” to show up to fix the problem, or even worse the computer would have to be taken to an off-premise site for a week or more. Ahhhh….. those were the “bad ol’ days!” of the pioneering days of the personal computer.
In the modern day, remote desktop software can be, and often is, the answer to many of the problems that can arise in an office full of computers. This secure software enables a user to be in one location and access the computers in a different location to trouble-shoot and hopefully repair what is wrong with the troubled computer. So if the problem with the computer is not something as drastic as the motherboard frying, the quick-fix is a real possibility with this type of technology.
From what I’ve been hearing, the average American is now suffering from bad credit and is being bombarded with offers from credit repair services. These offers give the impression that all that is needed for credit repair is to sign up for their program, and with a wave of a magic wand the bad credit will disappear.
I think it is very sad because credit repair information is something that should clearly state that if someone has bad credit because they have missed payments on a loan, that these services will not magically repair their credit! What these services basically provide is information about how you can get a copy of your credit report and dispute anything on the report that might be in error. If all of the information on your credit report is correct, and your credit is still bad, then these services cannot help you! What we need to do is to figure out how to pay off those debts so that our credit will improve over time. Just as with fixing the nation’s economy will not happen quickly, neither will getting out of personal debt. The sooner we realize that and deal with it, the better off we will all be.
I received an email from my sister who recently returned from a year long visit to Western Oklahoma. She was telling me about how life was out where she was living. She was telling me that she was staying over an hour’s drive away from the nearest Wal-Mart, which was in a town called Kingfisher. I can’t imagine having to drive that far to get to a Wal-Mart! Anyway, she was also telling me that during hunting season the farmers there “posted” their “no hunting” signs by painting old tires with the words “No Hunting” and hanging them on their fence posts along the road! Now THAT is a creative use of old tires! Chances of the hunters “ripping down” those signs and tearing them up are pretty slim, don’t you think?
My wife is positively thrilled. Our son called her last night to say hello. It’s nice that he does that – I know that there are many kids who are off in college who only call home to ask for money. But not “J.” He just keeps in touch. Anyway he has been offered a summer internship overseas (that’s NOT the part my wife is thrilled about) which is great for him. What my wife is thrilled about is the fact that he told her that he is considering a graduate school that is in-state. That means that he would only be a three hour drive away instead of a six hour drive away. THAT’s the part my wife is thrilled about! She misses him dreadfully, and I know if she saw more of him (like an occassional weekend) she would be a much happier woman!
I find it very interesting to see how many different ways people use the Internet. My 80 year old mother uses it only for reading emails, and only when my daughter goes to her house and opens it up for her to read them! She is definitely NOT one to be talking with about the technicalities of computers and the Internet! When she wants to type a letter, she drags out her old manual typewriter! Yet there are many people who are her age who are “fluent” in their use of computers and the Internet.
My niece uses the Internet essentially for entertainment. She is not interested in learning anything – ever! My wife uses it constantly as a resource to research things that interest her. She LOVES the Internet – it is her security blanket!
One of the more fascinating ways that college students are using the Internet is to form social networks to help each other with their courses. There is one website called Course Hero that is designed to do just that. They have support study groups and cheat sheet exam preparation papers. If you need a Biology Exam Study Guide and you go to UT, you can join the community and type in “UT Biology Exam Prep” and chances are good that you will find that some other student has uploaded their study guide to share with the community.
