Have you ever heard the word STEM? STEM field? People in STEM actually has the potential to earn quite larger money in their career compared to other fields. And it is a top-field, highly valued, and reputed field with equal difficulty and challenges. So what actually STEM is?
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What is a “commonplace book”? Why you should have one?
Commonplace books (or commonplaces) are a way to compile knowledge, usually by writing information into books. Such books are essentially scrapbooks filled with items of every kind: recipes, quotes, letters, poems, tables of weights and measures, proverbs, prayers, legal formulas. Commonplaces are used by readers, writers, students, and scholars as an aid for remembering useful … Read more
[App Intro] Hypothes.is – Annotate web with anyone and anywhere
Hypothesis (hypothes.is) is an annotating tool, comes as an extension for Chrome Web browser, which runs as an overlay on any webpage or pdf (opened inside Chrome) and allows you to highlight and annotate content with collaborative features.
[App Intro] Manuscripts.io – Authoring tool for complex documents and scientific papers
For editing complex documents that contain headings, chapters, equations, formulae, inserting and managing citations & references, exporting to different journal formats, etc, etc. How about the collaboration abilities of multiple people editing the same document at the same time? Then you need this app.
Google is deleting inactive accounts. Do this to protect yours from permanent deletion.
Google updated its policies recently which will start to go into effect on June 1, 2021. This allows Google to delete your account if you’re not actively using its product (Gmail, Google Photos, Google Drive) for 3 months. Do the following to keep your account safe.
Annotate.tv – Take Notes on Youtube Videos (easily)
Is it really possible to annotate a video? Annotate.tv offers a solution close to that. Annotate.tv provides an optimized note-taking flow from Youtube videos, especially with ease.
[App Intro] Whimsical – Mind-mapping, Flow chart, Visual Workspace
Seeing something is better for learning than having it described. Documents have become outdated in transferring the knowledge quickly as a picture speaks thousand words. Thus, for note-taking, words has its limitation. To make whole picture out of your study on complicated concepts, mind-maps are best solution, so does the flow chart for explaining complicated … Read more
[App Intro] Notion – A comprehensive workspace (wiki-style documenting)
Notion is fundamentally for digital creating and editing mixture of different document types at one place and meant to kept only digitally (not for printing). The second focus is on team collaboration, the document can be shared with different editing rights and collaboration. The third focus is, it has a file (folder structure) hierarchy as … Read more
Why touch typing is essential for academia? and It’s NOT about speed.
Touch typing is all about the idea that each finger has its own area on the keyboard. Thanks to that fact you can type without looking at the keys. Touch typing is a method based on muscle memory instead of sight. Practicing to use specific fingers to press specific letters in the keyboard in such a way it only … Read more
[App Intro] Explain Everything – A Digital Whiteboard app
Explain Everything! As the name carries the meaning as it is the purpose of the app. The app mimics the conventional whiteboard to the extend everything can be explained as it provides infinite whiteboard space or infinite canvas. For those who are new to whiteboard applications, the infinite canvas is something like there’s no border … Read more
Do kids need coding classes? Does it really make them smart? Parents Must Read
WhiteHat Jr, Campk12, Captaincoder, Coding Ninjas and the list goes on. I’ve recently penned an article about why there’s a sudden surge in classes on coding for kids and why parents are falling for it. It is not like any other wave or trend in education style and it is unprecedented. The evolution in the … Read more