The second post following my internship here at GradeGuru, has just gone up on the UDress blog. It features new projects I’ve taken on, like the revamp of GradeGuru’s FAQ page. The post also features the things I love most about being in the city and some of my favorite places in New York.
To read the full blog post visit: http://udressmag.com/real-wide-world/372-gradegurumcgraw-hill-internship-part-2.html
PakInnova has released a list of the top 4 must have tools for students, just in time for the start of the fall semester! The list features GradeGuru, GoogleDocs, LectureFox and EverNote and describes how students can effectively use each tool for the best results.
For the full blog post visit: 4 Must Have Tools for Students
MakeUseOf has posted GradeGuru’s Top Ten Student Tools for 2010, a compilation of online student technology and tools that students will find useful this upcoming year, regardless of field or level of study. The list covers all aspects of study, including chat, note-taking, collaborating on assignments, and even maximizing dorm space.
You may be familiar with a few of the tools, such as Skype and Chegg, but the list includes several newcomers as well, including:
These tools offer the ability to manage all aspects of your academic career, from brainstorming and quizzing yourself to scheduling dates with the library. It’s time to start planning for the upcoming year. Will you be prepared?
For the complete list of tools, visit: GradeGuru’s Top Ten Student Tools for 2010
The University of Delaware’s fashion magazine UDress, keeps their readers updated over the summer through their online blog.My post about GradeGuru and my summer internship experience was recently featured on the site. The post highlighted my first day as an intern and recapped the projects I have worked on, including social media research, personal and professional outreach and the revamp of the Fall 2010 Campus Brand Ambassador program.
The post is the first of a three part blog, so you and UDel readers will be able to follow my experience here at GradeGuru over the next few weeks!
For the full blog post:
http://udressmag.com/real-wide-world/347-intern-in-the-nyc-part-1.html
Ray Schroeder, Professor and Director for the Center for Online Learning, Research and Service at the University of Illinois at Springfield recently featured GradeGuru in his Education Technology blog.
In the post Professor Schroeder highlighted the change from traditional study groups and their speculated nonexistence due to the uprising in new digital technologies. The post also mentioned the reviving of traditional study groups through tools like GradeGuru that offer social networking and the opportunity for students to take study groups online.
To see the full post visit: Education Technology-GradeGuru
Our founder Emily Sawtell, recently contributed to Dan Northern’s CollegeThrive.com where she shared her insight on how students can leverage the internet to boost their grades and ensure academic success.
Want to learn what resources are available to help you achieve high grades? Check out the full post here: http://collegethrive.com/use-the-web-to-boost-your-gpa
GradeGuru was just featured on CollegeThrive a site focused on providing students with tips and resources to help them better prepare and manage university life.
GradeGuru was cited as a great resource to find course materials.
The post highlights some of GradeGuru’s key features including inviting your friends and classmates to join as well as earning rewards for your contributions to the community.
GradeGuru was just featured on Student Stuff !!
Student Stuff offers help with college applications, advice on which student activities to get involved with, managing your budget, useful study tips and other college “stuff”. Check out studentstuff.com for more info and college resources.
Also, don’t forget to Check out our mention here: Paying Attention Actually Pays. Neato.
“Taking Notes Beyond the Classroom”
Below are a few highlights of the article:
Despite mixed reactions, note sharing has continued to grow in popularity. “Broadly, what we’re seeing is a trend in the increase of recognition that learning is collaborative. We’ve often treated what students do as private segments, they just go back to their dorms and study, when in fact they study together a lot,” said David Parry, assistant professor of emerging media and communications at the University of Texas-Dallas. Parry is also part of McGraw-Hill’s Academic Advisory Committee. “We’ve seen Facebook and MySpace collaboration to share information. There are opportunities for [the note sharing] Web sites to play that role for students.”
“From our perspective, we see note sharing as evolving into a more collaborative community of notes, more real time discussion, students helping each other in more real time,” Sawtell said. “If other social networks should be taken as an example, that is what may ultimately play out.”
Another concern about online note sharing is the fear that it is essentially spoon-feeding material to students and propagating a culture of laziness. However, supporters of the sites say they attract ambitious students, rather than class skippers. Keith Hampson, director of digital education strategies at Toronto’s Ryerson University, who is also part of McGraw-Hill’s Academic Advisory Committee, said that his original sense of skepticism has dissipated. “The more I’ve looked into this, the more I realized that the people who are using [note sharing sites] are proactive students. They want to have their notes in their hands before they enter class, they may want two or three copies of those notes when studying for an exam.”
The article ends with the following statement from Dr. Keith Hampson:
“I think there’s a real divide in higher education as to how we ought to be teaching, how students ought to be learning,” Hampson said. However, he acknowledged that whichever direction education moves in, change is inevitable. “We are obviously moving towards a more active and collaborative style of learning. These social technologies and practices enable to us to do this on a much grander scale.”
GradeGuru made it to Mashable today!
LINK: “GradeGuru: Collaborative Note Sharing for College Students”
Author: Ben Parr
Check out what people are saying on Twitter following the post and join us in the conversation @gradeguru
UPDATE:
This comment was just posted on the Mashable by a student:
i’m a college student and i think it’s really helpful…i painstakingly take pages and pages of notes every class but sometimes the professor goes too fast and I miss the 3 or 4 sentences that just happen to be the most important part of the lecture. Or I’m trying to keep up & can’t read my writing. Or sometimes I just don’t understand why I wrote something down. My friends in my classes and I share our notes before exams because sometimes the way someone else wrote something down just makes more sense.
Also, after nearly every lecture when I come home and am reading over my notes there are always things that I need to know in more detail, or just need to hear it a different way to really get it, so I end up spending hours researching whatever the topic is online, and sorting through the thosands of articles in my school’s databases. Having one place where I can search for the topic will be really helpful to fill in the blanks that I might have in my notes.
I know my friends and I plan to use GradeGuru before finals to share our notes with eachother so we can save paper and not photocopy different pages for different people, etc.
Also, it’s a good place for me to STORE my notes…right now I have boxes and boxes of file folders overflowing.People who use GradeGuru maliously won’t get anything out of it in the end anyhow. I see people cheat in class all of the time and maybe that gets them a high A when I studied super hard and barely got a 90%. But when I have my MPH and then my Phd and they couldn’t even get into a good grad school….well, then cheating won’t seem to them like it was worth it.
