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Microsoft Office Tip — Claim victory over your e-mail |
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Excerpted from Microsoft.com “Top 10 web sites for students” |
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Excerpted from Microsoft.com article “Make the grade with 10 homework helpers” |
Make the grade with 10 homework helpersTake a look at this list of terrific Web sites for students |
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Today's students are far more likely to turn to the Internet for research and homework help than to visit the library. The problem is, there are so many Web sites in cyberspace that it can be difficult |
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to find what you're looking for—and trust what you're reading. Here are 10 terrific sites that provide homework help, reference guides, and imaginative projects for a range of grades and subjects. |
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1. Fact Monster |
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Click here for the other 9 homework helpers |
Top 10 Web sites for studentsTeach your children how to surf for credible sources on the Internet |
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If you want to a see a blank look on a student's face, ask him about the Dewey Decimal library classification system. For better or for worse, the Internet often |
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becomes an alternative to a library's card catalogs. But how can you trust what you read on the Web? "Frankly, this is my main concern, along with stumbling onto inappropriate material," admits Bonnie Marks, a mother of two. "Just because someone publishes something on their home page, it doesn't make it gospel—many kids don't know this." Learning where to go and how to appropriately use information that is on the Internet can be challenging to both parents and students. The following is a look at some of the most comprehensive—and reliable—educational Web sites a student can bookmark and use to research school projects and homework assignments. Click here for the list of websites |
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No doubt you've opened an e-mail and thought, "Hmmm, not sure what to do with this. I'll deal with it later!"—and promptly closed the message. If you do this over and over again, it doesn't take long to end up with several hundred (or thousand) messages in your Inbox. Developing a new approach to processing your Inbox will help you to gain more control, improve your response time, and keep up with critical actions and due dates. Tip #1: Set up a simple and effective e-mail reference system The first step toward an organized Inbox is understanding the difference between reference information and action inforReference information is information that is not required to complete an action; it is information that you want to keep in case you need it later. Action information is informMost people receive a considerable amount of reference information through e-mail. Sometimes as much as one-third of your e-mail is reference information. So it is essential to have a system that makes it easy to transfer messages from your Inbox into your e-mail reference system. An E-mail Reference System is a series of e-mail file folders where you store reference information to ensure you have easy access to it later. Learn more about setting up an E-mail Reference System. Once you take care of filing your reference information, you can use the next three steps to handle e-mail you have to do something with, your action information. Find three more tips for claiming victory over your email at the full article on Microsoft At Work, here. ation you must have to complete an action. |