Thing 21 - Student 2.0 Tools

The Assignment Calculator and the Research Project Calculator could be really helpful for students. Some students need to have a schedule and stick to it in order to finish a project or paper in a timely and well-done manner. I can't remember how many times I waited until the last minute to do a project and had to stay up late into the night to finish it because I didn't realize how long it was going to take me. I think I work best under pressure, but who knows maybe my work could have been a whole lot better if I had planned ahead. I really liked the teachers' guide section in the Research Project Calculator. It had tons of possible worksheets and ideas for how to approach an assignment. Links to these sites on our website and at our reference desks could really help out students as well as teachers. We could also give the links to the homework helpers that come to the libraries. I'm sure they get lots of questions about different research projects.