Month: February 2009

Shmoop is a great site to get quick information about literature, in simple English. This is a new site, trying out new things (beta version means it is not quite finished), and expanding quickly into other areas like history and poetry. Each entry, common ones assigned at high school in the US, has lots of different information broken down into areas, like plot, characters, literary devices, etc.

I have talked before about Zotero, a good way to collect research. But Mendeley allows you to share it with other people. If you have some research, you can post it there, allow others to see it, and even download it.

Google Maps is a great way to work with directions. In addition, you can map out a route to someone’s favorite restaurant, and share all of these in class. Additionally, you can use Street View, that has pictures of almost every street in Tokyo, to show your neighborhood to other students. Be careful, though, maps you create are made public by default. You should click on the “private” box so you share only with people you want to.