Free College Statistics Tutoring - How to Use the Web For Your Study

Free College Statistics Tutoring - How to Use the Web For Your StudyThe great thing about free college statistics tutoring is that it allows you to get a lot of different information at your fingertips. If you're looking for a set of stats on the economy, for example, or some kind of survey of college students, you will be able to find them all in one place. By taking advantage of these resources, you will find it much easier to understand and address any issues you may have with the study material.There are also a number of websites that offer free college statistics tutoring. This could be from the CPA Exam Council, the College Board, or many other sources. These tutors can help you assess what kind of study material you should be studying and which areas you should focus on.Some of the best free college statistics tutoring comes from popular tutoring sites like Khan Academy. By visiting the site, you will be able to find all kinds of study material as well as interactive courses. These can include online practice tests, practice quizzes, and quizzes from real life test questions. You can find a number of these study materials through these sites, which can help you develop strategies for tackling test questions and understanding what you need to do to score better on the exam.Most of the students at the universities who are preparing for the SAT are using Facebook to keep in touch with friends and family members. Students are also using Facebook to stay in touch with their school's academic counselors. Most of the time, you'll find that many students will share their school counselor with friends. Facebook also has a chat room where you can ask questions and receive answers directly from your friends.Sometimes, the online quiz will ask you to answer a question about a movie you saw last week. Some quizzes will ask you to find all the data on a certain topic.Another great resource you can take advantage of to get free education statistics is through a website called Kaplan Test Prep. When you take this free online course, you will learn about the three main sections of a test, which includes verbal, math, and reading comprehension.In addition to learning about these sections, you will also learn how to make sure you study for the test. Kaplan's free course also provides you with tips and strategies on how to ace the SAT and ACT exams.

How to Survive Your First Italian Conversation

How to Survive Your First Italian Conversation Suzy S. Are you nervous about speaking  Italian for the first time? Below, Italian teacher Nadia B. shares some tips on how to survive your first Italian conversation Youve memorized a long list of  Italian vocabulary words, and youve practiced repeating them out loud with your Italian teacher. But, are you confident enough in your skills to  have an Italian conversation with someone other than your Italian instructor? The following tips and tricks will teach you how to navigate through your first Italian conversation. These tidbits will help you communicate with and comprehend your conversation partner, as well as avoid  some of the most common challenges facing Italian language learners in conversation. Lets get started! 1. Ask Your Partner  to Speak Slowly If your Italian conversation partner is a native Italian, you might find that  he or she will  become animated and start to speak rapidly. Dont worry, this is very common among native Italian speakers. If youre having trouble understanding your partner, you can try the following phrase: Parla/parli più lentamente, per favore, which means Please speak more slowly.  In this phrase, parla is informal and parli is formal. 2. Take Note of Hand Gestures Another thing that happens as Italian speakers become more animated is their use of hand gestures. Take note of these hand gestures, as they  can help you gain comprehension. Check out this link to  see the many hand gestures that Italians often use. Familiarize yourself with some of the gestures, and see if you can catch them in use in actual conversation. 3. Phrases to Use When You Dont Understand If asking your partner to speak slowly doesnt work, here are some phrases you can use if theres something you dont understand: Potresti/Potrebbe ripetere la parola/la frase, per favore? (Could you please repeat the word/the last few words?) In this phrase, potresti is informal and potrebble is formal. Cosa vuol dire ____?  (What does ___ mean?) If youre really not able to understand what your conversation partner has said, you can resort to: Non capisco. (I dont understand.) Non ho capito. (I didnt understand [a specific thing].) 4. Substitute Words You Dont Know If youre  following what your partner is saying,  but youre having trouble expressing a particular idea or thought, try to work around it. If you cant think of a particular word, or dont know the word, you can try to describe it using words you do know. For example, if you didnt know the word for bookstore in Italian (la libreria), you could say, E dove si compra un libro. (Its where you buy books.) If youre really stuck, and the person youre conversing with speaks some English, try the following phrase:  Come se dice ____ in italiano? (How do you say ____ in Italian?) 5. Keep it Simple Lastly, remember to keep it simple. Using simple sentence structures and basic vocabulary words can go a long way. Remember these common building blocks of sentences: The verbs to be: essere and stare Subject pronouns: io (I), lui (he), noi (us), etc. Common verbs:  mangiare (to eat),  parlare (to speak),  andare (to go) Helpful  prepositions:  di (of),  da (from),  accanto (beside),  davanti (in front),  indietro (behind),  giù (below) Useful adjectives: interessante (interesting),  bello (beautiful),  amabile (friendly), difficile (hard), facile (easy) 6. Ask Your Partner Questions In addition to using the above structures to create varied conversation, dont forget that another way to increase the richness and depth of your conversation is to ask the person youre conversing with questions about themselves, or ask for more information about what he or she has  said. Use the following question words to gain more information: perché (why) come (how) quando (when) dove (where) che cosa (what) chi (who) Use these tips and consult your  Italian teacher to help prepare for your first Italian conversation. Most of all, enjoy yourself! Its sure to be full of fun  and learning, and its only the beginning of many adventures in Italian to come! Post Author: Nadia B. Nadia B. teaches Italian in New York, NY. She graduated summa cum laude from New York University, with a double degree in Italian Language and Literature and Classical Music Performance.  Learn more about Nadia here! Photo by  Giulia Mulè Interested in Private Lessons? Search thousands of teachers for local and live, online lessons. Sign up for convenient, affordable private lessons today! Search for Your Teacher

LOI English Book Club

LOI English Book Club LOI English is introducing a new kind of course for upper-intermediate to advanced English speakers, the English Book Club. In this class, you will read some of the best novels in the English language, then discuss them in a weekly group class led by a native teacher.We love reading, and know that a lot of our students do to. We think this will be a fun new way for English students to maintain their English with reading and weekly conversation. The teacher will help with vocabulary lists and reading questions given out before each class, and can explain difficult parts of the novel during the weekly class.Classes will be $40 per month, which includes 4 classes of 1 hour 15 minutes each. There will be 5 students in each class. We will need a minimum of 5 students for a class, so make sure to share this with your friends via Facebook and Twitter! Groups will meet live via WebEx, a high-quality online video conferencing platform.To register for a class, click here and fill out the form, or email us.

How should I use the Virtual Writing Tutor in 2020

How should I use the Virtual Writing Tutor in 2020 After nearly eight years of development, the Virtual Writing Tutor is becoming a potent resource for students and teachers. Here are some ways you can start using the VWT to help your learners learn faster and better. New ways to use the VirtualWritingTutor.com Free grammar check The Virtual Writing Tutor started its life as a simple grammar check website in 2012. Now, eight years later, there is a lot more to it, but the grammar checker function is still the most popular feature for most of the approximately two hundred thousand visitors to the VirtualWritingTutor.com per month. Perhaps, the biggest reason for its popularity is that it is a 100% free grammar checker, forever. There are other grammar checkers that you can pay for, but I am working hard so that you and your students always have a free option at hand. My theory is that a free online grammar checker can be a source of lifelong learning, but only if students get enough positive experiences using it for the grammar checker to become a beneficial habit. Asking students to use the VWT once or twice a semester is not enough. Heres my advice. How can I use the grammar checker? Whenever you ask students to write something for homework or in the computer lab, ask them to check it for errors using the the Virtual Writing Tutor. Give them a point for using the VWT to eliminate their errors. Tell them that the development of revision strategies is one of the objectives of the course, and give students writing assignments to do every week. Repetition and perceived benefit are the keys to the development of beneficial habits. Read student testimonials about their experiences using the Virtual Writing Tutor. Students cant always see the errors in their own writing, so a quick grammar check on the VWT is a fast and often effective way to eliminate embarrassing errors. Regular use of the VWT makes common errors more visible. Students revise better after a semester using the VWT, even offline and during writing exams. Thats been my experience. Extensive versus intensive correction Research suggests that the best way to influence student accuracy is to provide focused feedback on errors. That means that if you teach past tenses in the presentation and practice stages of your lesson, you should only give feedback on past tenses during the production stage. This is what we mean by intensive corrective feedback. Still, there are many glaring errors that take a long time to explain but are so frequent that teachers cannot ignore them in a students writing. Correction of these incidental errors is sometimes called extensive corrective feedback. The best way for teachers to provide extensive feedback on their errors is to get students to run their texts through the Virtual Writing Tutors grammar checker. Its quick and easy and builds that habit of revision into a weekly routine. Grammar checkers cant detect all the errors in a students writing for two primary reasons. Its partly because not all the error detection rules have been written yet and partly because the system only checks one sentence at a time. A grammar checker such as the VWT cant use the information in the surrounding context of the paragraph or the world at large to determine if the student has used the correct tense. But if a grammar checker is inherently limited, doesnt that mean that it should be avoided completely? No way. Online grammar checkers may be the only solution to the problem of error fossilization. Is there a solution for error fossilization? Ill get into trouble for writing this with at least one of my colleagues, but fossilization is a problem with the instruction not a problem with the student. Think of it this way. The error “I have 17 years.” originates in the students first language, French. Alternatively, consider the widespread use of the first-person pronoun I incorrectly used in lowercase. Through repeated practice of the error without consistent corrective feedback from a teacher or peers, errors like these can become stable and resistant to feedback. After correcting the student twice or three times, a teacher may feel that correcting the student has become a lost cause and pronounce a gloomy prognosis: fossilization! Frequent, repeated, immediate feedback will destabilize even the most entrenched errors. I have seen it myself. In a classroom full of students, more than half of my low intermediates start the semester saying and writing i have 17 years. Through the inherently communicative and repetitive weekly narrative writing assignments in Actively Engaged at College, all the students will have eliminated that error by week 15with the exception of the one student who didnt use the Virtual Writing Tutor. An online grammar checker is the cure for fossilized errors. A fossilized Allosaurus skull. Allo? Allo? Self-Scoring Pen Pal exchange One way to build the revision habit in students is surreptitiously through a self-scoring pen pal exchange. You can set up the exchange between students in the same class or between students of different classes or colleges. As they write about their day, their family, their routine, neighbourhoods, favorite food, memorable day, and a memorable trip, the system counts their errors, their words, and the target vocabulary from the lesson, generating a score. Students seek to maximize their scores by correcting their errors and replying to their pen pals. In this way, using the Virtual Writing Tutor as a revision strategy aligns with their desire for higher grades. When scores align with objectives, students have a better chance of succeeding. The Virtual Writing Tutors Pen Pal Exchange System Automated Argument Essay Evaluation There is so much you can do to help students learn to write better argument essays using the VWT. Here are my step-by-step suggestions. Download an argument essay writing project idea below. Controversial Debate Topic AssignmentDownload First, ask students to sign up to research one of these controversies: abortion, climate change, animal rights, body image, feminism, immigration, or internet censorship. Get groups to research their topic on https://idebate.org/debatabase Ask each group to work together to create a glossary, card game and online matching exercise using the VWTs Glossary Creator. Get each group member to outline an argument essay using the argument essay outliner. Have students draft an essay and get automated formative essay evaluation from the VWT.Have students submit their final drafts to you for your summative feedback and evaluation. Automated Cover Letter Evaluation Lets face it. Some students are sloppy. You show them a standard format for a letter that could get them the entry-level job to start an exciting new career. And what happens? They get it all wrong. So, what do you do next? You spend 10-20 minutes showing them whats wrong with your trusty red pen. Dont get me wrong. I see value in reading students assignments and dramatizing the presence of a reader by commenting on student writing. It is what weve been trained to do, but performing an autopsy on sloppy work is not a very efficient use of our time. Wouldnt it be better if they could just run their letter through the VWT to get the same feedback in two seconds flat? Faster, explicit feedback with a formative score is better feedback. Thats my hypothesis. I have been working with Laurent Nicolas at Andre Grasset College to bring you just such a system. Give it a try. Glossary Maker If you do little else, plan to use theVirtual Writing Tutor’s Glossary Creator this year. Its new and its wonderful. Students can learn so much from this new glossary maker. It takes approximately one and a half minutes per glossary term for a student to do all of the following: add a termgive the part of speechadd a definition in sentence case using the integrated Google definition searchgenerate a text-to-speech pronunciation modeladd an automatic translation It takes another one and a half minutes per glossary term to add the following: images fromWikimedia Commonsauthentic example sentences from theLextutor Concordancer For a 10-term field-related glossary, it will take about 30 minutes. For a 20-term glossary, it should only take about an hour, the perfect activity for students during a computer lab hour. By the end of the hour, students will have a published glossary, a card game to play next class with their classmates, and an online matching exercise to share with classmates in the same program during the next lab hour the following week. Screenshot of a glossary made with the Virtual Writing Tutor An automatically generated card game from a glossary created with the Virtual Writing Tutor An automatically generated online matching exercise from a glossary created with the Virtual Writing Tutor Screencast Creator Every semester, I ask my intermediate students to create two screencasts per semester. Each time, I tell them to write a script and check it for errors. I tell them to use the VWTs text-to-speech button to help them with their pronunciation. What do they do despite my instructions and cajoling? They wing it. The improvised result is predictable. Students work long and hard to produce a screencast filled with avoidable grammar errors and word choice errors and filled with avoidable pronunciation errors, too. I am thrilled to announce that by the end of February, the Virtual Writing Tutor will have a step-by-step screencast creator to help students produce high-quality field-related screencasts for the blogging project that we do with Actively Engaged Online. Of course, you wont need the textbook to get your students to create screencasts with the free system, but it will help if it is your first time teaching blogging. In any case, soon enough, those days will be behind us. If I get my way, there wont be any more avoidable errors and mispronunciations filling up YouTube. My students field-related screencasts are otherwise quite watchable. They just need a little VWT magic polish to make them really shine. New features There are many new features to the Virtual Writing Tutor that you can try. Dont wait another year. 2020 is the best time to start using the Virtual Writing Tutor with your students if you havent started already. I have so many new features planned. On top of automatically evaluating narrative writing tasks, I intend to build a career FAQ blog post creator with embedded meaningful paraphrasing exercises and a listicle creator. You wont believe how good 2020 is going to be! Contact me if you have any questions. Please follow and like us:

Wisdom Comes not from Age, but from Education and Learning.

Wisdom Comes not from Age, but from Education and Learning. Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning. Anton Checkov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born in the small seaport of Taganrog, southern Russia. Chekhovs grandfather was a serf (kind of slave in Royal Russia), and later he bought the freedom of his wife and children. In 1879 Chekhov entered Moscow University Medical School. As a student, he published hundreds of short comical stories to support himself and his family. In his stories were shown silly moments in society, marriage problems, clashes between husbands and wives, mistresses and lovers, whims of young women, of whom Chekhov had not much knowledge the author was shy with women even after his marriage. His work has appeared in the daily newspapers of St. Petersburg. He is one of the most famous writers in the world. His works have been translated into more than 100 languages. His plays, notably The Seagull , Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard for over a hundred years, have played in many theaters around the world. During over 26 years of creativity Chekhov delivered out if his imagination about 900 different literary projects (short humorous stories, serious stories, plays), many of which have become classics of world literature. Particular attention is drawn the Steppe , A Boring Story , Duel , The Story of an Unknown Man , Man in a Case ( 1898).

Internships for Credit What You Need to Know

Internships for Credit What You Need to Know Photo: Pexels How do you know if a company offers college credit? When you are viewing an internship posting, it will usually say whether or not the company offers college credit. If its an unpaid position, they usually do offer college credits for their interns. If it is a paid position, you may be able to switch it out for college credit instead of getting financial compensation. Dont be afraid to ask! Usually, you will have to coordinate with the company you are looking to intern at and an academic/faculty member that will ultimately sponsor/monitor your internship. Make sure you fill out all necessary registration and any paperwork before beginning your internship to get the college credit you want. Keep track of all the steps necessary so that you know what needs to be done and what deadlines to meet. How do you know if you are eligible to get college credit for an internship? Ultimately, it is actually up to your school whether or not you are eligible for college credit. Its not just whether or not the company offers it to begin with, but if your school deems you eligible. You can be denied eligibility for a number of reasons. Maybe you have already taken an internship for college credits and reached the universitys cap for college credits given by an internship. The internship you are pursuing has to tie into your major or field of study in some way, so if it is completely unrelated to your studies, you will most likely not be able to get college credit for the internship. If you are able to find a way to connect your internship to your education, you can see if there is a way for you to submit a petition to get your internship to qualify for college credit. Your ability to be eligible for an internship for college credit also may depend on what year you are in. You may only be able to get an internship for college credit if you are an upperclassman with junior or senior standing in terms of college credits. Also, some majors and minors will require you to complete an internship or field study as part of your requirement for classes. As such, you will get college credit for completing the internship rather than financial compensation. How do you know if an internship for college credits is the right choice for you?   As nice as it is to get out of the classroom and still get college credit, it definitely is not the right choice for everyone. If you are getting an internship for college credit, you will most likely not be getting paid for it as it is usually one or the other. Sometimes you may be looking at multiple internship opportunities and be left completely unsure as to which one to pick. Lay out your options and see which one best advances your career path and gives you the most helpful experience and networking, it may not necessarily be the internship granting you the most college credit. If you are stretched tight financially, you may not be able to have an internship for college credit. Rather, a paid internship may be the better move for you. Dont be afraid to weigh your options. Hopefully, with this guide, your decision will be a bit easier and well-informed.

3 Holiday Recipes that will satisfy your taste buds, your wallet and your tummy

3 Holiday Recipes that will satisfy your taste buds, your wallet and your tummy Harvest Stuffing from WholeLiving.com The second recipe I’d like to share with you is fat free, low calorie challah bread. This bread is easy to make and low in cost. In this recipe you will use supplements of: 2 egg whites for every 1 egg and applesauce in place of oil. Challah recipes can be found on sites like Food.com and All Recipes. This supplementing technique is thanks to one blogger on the Adventures in Challah website. Hallah from SmittenKitchen.com My third and final recipe, which I would like to share with you, is for an apple crisp that is low in calories. This recipe is super low in cost and contains only: 8 apples, 1 cup of sugar, 1 cup of flour, 1 egg, 1 tablespoon of baking soda, 1 ½ tablespoons of cinnamon and 1 tablespoon of butter. This recipe can use supplements of whole-wheat flower, egg whites or cooking spread. Apple Crisp from AllRecipes.com Being fit for the holidays however, is not directly related to eating. It is important to exercise, get plenty of sleep and eat well-balanced meals. I hope these recipes help you to supplement some of your favorite holiday foods and encourage you to find healthy supplements for your favorite dishes. Until next time, keep trim while you trim the tree this holiday season.