Online Learning Resources

There are also lots of helpful sites out on the Internet and we have prepared a list for you here. Also, remember that most textbooks have companion websites that are often quite helpful. If you need help checking out one of these sites, come talk to us!

TC3 Sites

• Study Skills Tips and Techniques
• Writing Help, Citation Information, etc. Help
• TC3 Library's Recommendations for Academic Programs and Subjects Resources

External Sites for Study Skills

• Great Study Guides and Strategies
• Learning Skills Handouts
• Links to Study Skill Sites by Subject
• Learning Styles and Personality Styles
• Center for Academic Support
• How To Study.ORG
• How To Read a Textbook
• Sharpening Your Listening Skills - for Lectures
• More on Listening Skills
• Great Study Guides and Strategies
• Study Skills Self Help Information

Internal TC3 Sites for Other Topics

• Organic Chemistry
• Mathematics
• Polling and Environmental Research

The following Organic Chemistry Sites provide links to organic courses, tutorials, animations, etc.

• Colby OChem Visual Demos
  great videos illustrating several organic reaction mechanisms
• Organic Chemistry
  Notes for the full year of organic chemistry by Carl Wamser
• Blake Otwell notes & organic links
• OSU-NOTES &RESOURCES FOR ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
• Organic Chemistry
  Virtual Organic Text
• Organic Rxn Roadmap
  a real nifty maze of organic reactions
• Molecular Models
• General, Organic and Biochemistry

Math Help

• Math Homework Help
  (Calculus: Differentiation and integration rules + review formulas from algebra and trigonometry)
• Calculus graphics – Douglas N. Arnold
  (Calculus: In-depth animations of limits and a tangent line)
• Mathematics Archives – Topics in Mathematics – Fractals
  (Advanced topics in math and science for those ones who are interested)
• Mathematics Archives – Topics in Mathematics
  (Useful links for students studying Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry. Statistics and Calculus)
• Sprott's Fractal Gallery
  (Advanced topics in math and science for those ones who are interested)
• Mathematical Quotation Server
  (For fun and research projects: Quotes about mathematics from famous scientists).
• History of Mathematics
  (For reports: Reports on history of math from ancient times to current research)
• Women in Math (WIM) at UMCP
  (Information about women in science: history, career opportunities, education and scholarships)
• The Math Forum Home Page
  (Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Statistics and Calculus: Interactive classrooms and various practice problems and quizzes)
• Math in the Movies
  (A description of motion pictures which involve mathematics)
• FSU Math – Mathematics WWW Virtual Library
  Math Forum Internet Collection (Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Precalculus, Statistics: Links to multiple tutorial and sample problems)
• Electronic Sources for Mathematics
  (for research: list of math organizations)
• Guessing Correlations
  (Statistics: a neat "game" to show the relationship between correlations and scatterplots – ten minutes should get the ideas across to almost any student. Part of the CUWU Statistical Program at Illinois-Champaign-Urbana)
• Effect of a "Small" Effect
  (Statistics: description of distributions and diagrams).
• Power of a Hypothesis Test
  (Statistics: nice graphical look at hypothesis testing)
• Statistics Definitions
  (Statistics stuff: definitions and simulations)
• Free Online Statistics Lessons
  (Great stuff!)

Writing Help

• Purdue University's Online Writing Lab
  This is a very comprehensive and easy to use website with answers and advice on just about anything related to writing, including grammar, citations, essays, research, etc.
• Guide to Grammar from Capital Community College
  This is an excellent website with lots of interactive quizzes and tutorials on grammar.
• Skills Tutor
  This is an online grammar and writing tutorial program that allows you to go at your own pace and work on only those areas that you need help. If you're interested, come see us at the Baker Center, and we can set you up with a password.
• The Writing Center
  This site includes a number of helpful resources, including citation, career writing, and ESL issues.

Citations:

• Diane Hacker Citation Guide:
  Style guides for APA, MLA, Chicago, and CBE. This site includes sample papers and is very thorough.
• C.W. Post Campus MLA Citation Guide
  Some sample MLA entries.
• C.W. Post Campus APA Citation Guide
  Some sample APA entries.

General Reference

• Merrian-Webster Online Dictionary
• Bartleby's Famous Quotes
  This is web site is one of the most comprehensive literary research sites on the web. It includes many complete reference books (books on quotations, literary history, encyclopedias, etc.), historical documents (treaties, inaugural addresses, etc.), and e-books (cookbooks, fiction, non-fiction, etc.).
• The Dictionary of the History of Ideas, Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas
  This is a good web site for those times that you need to know about a philosopher or idea.
• TC3 Library Resources
  This is the TC3 library web site and full of great resources.