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Resources for Lecturers & Students
Overcoming Performance Problems
- Essential tips for overcoming performance anxiety
- Voice Image Secrets
- Overcome Fear or Anxiety of Public Speaking
- Litemind (Blog on efficient use of the mind)
- Stress Busters for Students to Avoid the Food Trap
- Eating Strategies for Exam Time
Lectures
- Academic Earth (Online courses from the world top scholars)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology:MIT Open Courseware. (Free lecture notes, exams and videos)
- Open Culture (Free Online Courses from Top Universities)
- Sloan School of Management
- University of Waterloo Centre for Teaching Excellence
- Khan Academy ( Changing Education by providing free world class education)
Case Studies & Articles
- Harvard Business Review
- Cornell University Library Archives (Open access to e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics)
- Compilation of CS Tutorials (Tutorials for Linux as well as programming, especially web and database)
Academic Essay Guides
- University of Toronto Advice on Academic Essay Writing
- Harvard University:Beginning the Academic Essay
Note Taking and Sharing
- Evernote - Note taking, web clipping, cloud storage, syncing between devices. (iPhone and Android apps available however no Blackberry support. Blocked behind firewall, but syncs whenever a supporting connection is available.Supports pen input for tablet users)
- Springpad - Similar functionality to Evernote but everything is online, no syncing necessary. Available on any mobile, web browsing phone.No pen input, since everything is done on a web application.
- Dropbox - Allows secure sharing of files and folders.Public folder gives every item a unique url for sharing with cloud storage and automatic syncing. Blocked behind corporate firewall, but will sync whenever a supporting connection is available.There is a blackberry application so you can sync your files with your blackberry device.
- SlideShare - Upload and share presentations, documents and professional videos on blogs, Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn. Over 60 million people use SlideShare every month for research, sharing ideas, connecting with others, and generating business leads.
Surveys and Questionnaire Guides
- Qualtrics University Articles on Survey Design
- University of Leeds Guide to the Design of Questionnaires
- Seminar Collections (A repository of seminar documents)
Presentation and Concept Mapping
- Concept Mapping (Graphical tools for organizing and representing knowledge)
- Institute for Human and Machine Cognition Concept Mapping Software (Download)
- Tufts University Visual Understanding Environment (Creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research)
Authors, Speakers & Book Websites
- Founders at Work (Collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies about what happened in the very earliest days)
- Malcolm Gladwell's Website
- Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) (Ideas and actions for a 21st century enlightenment)
- Technology Education and Design (TED) Riveting talks by remarkable people
- Charlie Rose (Interviews with contemporaries on technology, media etc)
- Charlie Rose You Tube channel
- Outsource Magazine(Delivers unrivalled content direct to the movers, shakers and decision-makers at the heart of the outsourcing space)
- Why Programs Fail (A guide to systematic debugging)
- American Rhetoric (A collection of American Speeches)
Programming Resources
- Project Euler (A collection of programming exercises of varying difficulties)
- Sourceforge (A repository for open source software)
- Python programming (Programming language that lets you work more quickly and integrate your systems more effectively)
- Stack overflow (Programming Guidance)
- Programming in Haskell (Haskell is one of the leading languages for teaching functional programming, enabling students to write simpler and cleaner code, and enables the student to structure and reason about programs)
- Google Code University (Provides sample course content and tutorials for Computer Science (CS) students and educators on current computing technologies and paradigms)
Collaboration Tools
- Microsoft Live@edu (Communication Services: Free, hosted email and calendaring with a 10 GB inbox and instant messaging through Outlook Live
Collaboration Services: Ability to access, share and collaborate through SkyDrive, with 25 GB of free online storage space
Productivity Services: Create, view, edit, and share Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote files online with SkyDrive)
Other
- Smart Planet (IBM's collection of articles on business, technology, innovation and energy)
- Chilling Effects (Aims to help you understand the protections that the First Amendment and intellectual property laws give to your online activities)
- RSA Animate (Changing Education Paradigms)
Staff Resources
Staff Webmail address : https://webmail.sbcs.edu.tt/exchange
