no really, that's their slogan. one of them, anyway. schoolr is a pretty sweet site, so i thought i would share it with all of you. it seems pretty basic when you log onto the main page. but it does a ton of stuff for you. there are 8 different search engines! one being google, of course. but it will also look up definitions, acronyms, wikipedia, thesaurus, book summaries, even urbandictionary entries. it will do measurement conversions, and there is a text translator. as a multilinguist, i usually don't trust online translators. i haven't gotten to play around with this one yet, though. it will also show you how to do citations. it's very helpful. and if you're cool enough to have a blackberry or some other phone with internet capabilities, visit m.schoolr.com for their mobile version. check it out!
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This is a pretty cool site. Very helpful with time management and condensing resources into one area that is easily accessible. Thanks for posting this! I love these perfect school work companions. On online translators- they are extremely unreliable in general but once in a while you can find a really good translating site. I found this awesome Hebrew site that translates nouns and has another site for verbs- you pick the verb in English, as well as the desired conjugated version of the word and it displays everything you could want to know about that verb. We have it pretty easy in English, in Hebrew, like many other languages, conjugation depends on whether the subject is male/female, singular/plural, and the desired tense.
Posted by Martha Drattler | October 16, 2007 8:16 PM
Posted on October 16, 2007 20:16
I just checked out the site: very cool. You definitely don't want to trust the online translator though. They just don't work. Most things we say don't literally translate into other languages. I just tested it for Spanish - and it just linked me to Babelfish, which is a site that claims translation but has been responsible for more than a few F's in Spanish classes. Be careful!! You're better off translating words, not expressions. For that try Word Reference. Otherwise insanely useful!!
Posted by Paul Langdon | October 16, 2007 11:55 PM
Posted on October 16, 2007 23:55
This sounds like a very good resource, especially because of the amount and variety of information it contains all in one place. Perhaps it would be a good tool to share with your English teacher to share with your class. The mobile version would come in handy for me if I was in class and needed a quick definition.
Posted by Tim Nary | November 17, 2007 2:05 PM
Posted on November 17, 2007 14:05
Wow that seems very useful for the search-hungry researcher. It could also be useful when multi-tasking.
Posted by Albert Chen | December 14, 2007 4:16 AM
Posted on December 14, 2007 04:16