ECONOMICS

            Juan Giraldo, Statistics for Economics tutor in spring '06, likes thses:

http://www.bea.gov/
Want to put your knowledge to practice?
This website offers lots of statistical data regarding different economic measurements. It is the perfect instrument to use for regressions (which you will go over later in the course) and for practice using the different distributions. This could come in handy later in the course.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/NormalDistribution.html
This website is for those of you who or more math oriented and prefer explanations through proofs and examples rather than verbal explanations. It goes through the break down of normal distributions through limits and derivatives. Again this website is only beneficial for the mathematically inclined.

http://www.stat.wvu.edu/SRS/Modules/Binomial/binomial.html
For those of you having problems distinguishing between the different distributions this site helps discern the confusion with binomial distributions. It has great examples with explanations that will walk you through the solution. This is good practice for test preparation on binomial distributions.

http://library.thinkquest.org/10030/6dpdgd.htm
This website helps explain the geometric distributions by breaking down its fundamental formula into different components. By doing so it allows us to see where the formula was derived and thus understand it more completely.

http://www.stattucino.com
This website is an overview of the majority of the content that you will discuss in your ECO 221 course. It goes over most of the distributions briefly but to the point. It will be a very good study tool for going over the final exam and will help solidify your knowledge of the different distributions

            Steve Leopoldo, economics tutor 03-04, offers these suggestions:

This site provides the A-Z in Marxist theory. What's best about it, you can search for specific terms! It has many cross reference links within its encyclopedic entries.  

Internet Encyclopedia of Marxism: http://www.marxists.org/glossary/index.htm

About.com offers a host of different subject spotlights. It includes such titles as 'A Beginner's Guide to Elasticity,' 'Cost-Push Inflation vs. Demand-Pull Inflation,' and 'Short Run vs. Long Run.' This site is essential for any student.

About.Com's Economics series http://economics.about.com/

Absolutely everything the macroeconomics student needs to know is contained in one of the 15 review chapters offered at this site.

PinkMonkey.com Economics Study Guide http://www.pinkmonkey.com/studyguides/subjects/eco/contents.asp

ECO202 (Econ. in Historical Perspective) and ECO204 (Alternative Economic Theories) could benefit from the theory offered at this web page. It tackles comparative advantage, a key concept for international economic relations, in 'Ricardian' historical perspective.

David Ricardo and Comparative Advantage http://www.systemics.com/docs/ricardo/david.html

Sarah Burnett,  Statistics for Economics and Int'l. Financial Management tutor (03-04), likes these:

http://my.execpc.com/~helberg/statistics.html 

I found to be useful to tutors working with statistics and math, and for advanced statistical research since it  provides links to statisticians and online textbooks and web courses.

http://www.math.com/index.aspx

Math.com is a good resource for anyone studying any type of math. It offers games, homework help and specific subject help in areas such as basic math to statistics to advanced calculus. I would also use this  site to help prepare oneself for certain graduate exams that tend to focus on basic math and geometry :)     Hope that you enjoy!

Zach Hedge, Statistics for Economics tutor s04 adds these websites:

http://www.ncat.edu/~simkinss/econlinks.html 

This website, designed by a North Carolina A & T State University economics professor, is a great starting point for economics information on the web.

http://www.economics.unimelb.edu.au/students/learning/study.htm

Zach agrees with Alex Edgar (under Math) that this is a dynamite website, and it since it is from the Economics Department of the Univ. of Melbourne, Australia, it deserves mention here in the economics section of our favorite links.

 EDUCATION

Sarah Kessinger, EDU tutor f03, offers these sites:

http://ericeece.org

~"Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education"
~"Service to educators, parents and families, and all of us interested in the development, education, and care of children from birth through early adolescence."
~ERIC/EECE is funded by the U.S. Department of Education and is located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
~Publications, Popular Topics, Questions, Search, about ERIC are the links.
~Basically free information to help understand education more.

http://askeric.org

~ERIC stands for Educational Resources Information Center.
~Lots of ideas for lessons, activities, decorations, etc.
~I first heard of this from Dr. Wellman and have found it to be a very useful tool.

http://www.eduplace.com

~Run by Houghton Mifflin, a company well known for designing workbooks and other educational resources.
~Links to all sorts of activities, ideas, etc.

http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oese/index.html?src=mr

~Latest on education and politics.

http://www.quasar.ualberta.ca/ddc/include/pt4a.htm

~Includes interviews with real teachers and field notes (helpful to understand the actual teaching world).

http://www.nea.org/index.html

~National Education Association
~Important info and latest news on education can always be found here.

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Catherine Swayne, ENV tutor f03, recommends these:

I have attached some great environmental links for anyone majoring in the Environmental Studies or Growth Management field. The first website is a helpful tool for any research papers or projects you may be required to construct. This website also offers major links to other sites dealing exclusively with botany, ecology, etc.

http://bioweb.uwlax.edu

I have also listed the website below for anyone tutoring biology, since it is a website for teachers. I use this website frequently, both for school and at work. This site specializes in organismal biology, human biology, and histology.  "A bank of digital resources for teaching biology."

http://137.122.144.15

http://www.envirolink.org

These websites have great information regarding current environmental issues, and even enter into biology, ecology, wildlife conservation, and botany. For anyone interested in the environmental field, I have also listed a number of websites below that you may find useful. 

http://www.cotf.edu/ete

http://www.epa.com

http://environment.about.com

This website has a great quiz on determining whether you are a preservationist, an environmentalist or a wise user.  Determine your forestry environmental profile by taking this quiz.

http://forestry.about.com/library/quiz/blforest_use_style_quiz.htm

David Grasso, ENV tutor 03-04, has these picks: 

Environmental studies involve a lot of looking at individual topics. There is not as much of a set curriculum like many other subjects. In any event, there are still resources available. Here are some great links for study in the field of Environmental Studies:

http://www.alternet.org is an amazing resource for current events regarding environmental issues. Although it is a bit radical, it is a great alternative to the mainstream media, which has a tendency not to cover as many environmental stories as they should.

http://www.sierraclub.org  is the Sierra Club's official homepage. It contains great information on such issues as habitat encroachment, suburban sprawl, global warming, and other great threats to our future. 

http://www.geog.ouc.bc.ca/physgeog/contents/8b.html covers many topics in physical geography, which seems to be problematic to many people taking the Geosphere class. Contains interactive models, and 
thoroughly reviews many scientific concepts that are foreign to environmental policy track students. 

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/science/index.html  Since much of environmental studies is concerned with new environmental predicaments that arise, many classes cover recently emerged issues. The New York 
Times helps the student keep up with these, so that she/he is prepared for the next class discussion or test. 

http://www.ecoworld.com/default.cfm  goes over many environmental concepts that are needed for success in many environmental studies class. An unfamiliar website to be, I stumbled upon it and found it very useful. I was so impressed, I recently showed it to one of my professors! 

FRENCH

Ross Ionta, FRN and INB tutor 07-08, likes these sites:

http://www.wordreference.com/

Laura Fourdraine, FRN tutor 06-07, suggest these:

http://www.lexilogos.com/francais_langue_dictionnaires.htm
This is a great french/french dictionary that I use all the time.

http://videos.tf1.fr/video/news/?trk=1&e=186
The TF1 web site, and this page is the one where you can watch the news in video (the same ones that are transmitted in France) by clicking the second 'window' on the right upper side, with Jean-Pierre Pernault, Claire Chazal and PPDA in the picture.

Stefanie Whitmore, French tutor 05-06, likes these: 

http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/francaut.html  A pretty comprehensive list of French texts online.

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/index.shtml  The BBC’s (free) online language-learning website.  An excellent supplement to in-class learning, this site starts off with a placement test, then gives you links to activities that will help you improve from the level that you are at.  Be sure to also check out the French music section “Musique et Paroles,” where you can listen to some contemporary French artists, then practice your listening comprehension (dictée) by answering questions about what you heard.  The French slang section is also really good if you are considering going to France or just want some cool new vocabulary. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/gauge/   A direct link to the pre-test mentioned above.  Good luck! 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/experience2/  Also a part of the BBC program, this link will take you to the French Experience, an online program that uses video to teach French listening skills.  Great practice for the dictée! 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/languages/learn/index.shtml   Language-learning success tips. 

http://academic.mu.edu/aswriting/forlang.htm   Tips for writing in a foreign language. 

http://french.about.com/  Pretty typical About.com advice, with some cool “mot du jour” sites and daily e-mails. 

http://www.jump-gate.com/languages/french/  Another online French course, with a focus on pronunciation and grammar. 

http://www.lemonde.fr/  A link to the French newspaper, Le Monde. 

http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/deanhum/langlit/french/  From Lehman College, links to French guides and websites. 

http://www.french-art.com/index.asp  A site devoted to French art—museums, artists, galleries, etc. 

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/study/lingua.html   “A few brief suggestions on studying a foreign language.” 

http://www.frenchtutorial.com/standard/  Another free online French course. 

http://us.franceguide.com/  A France tourism site designed for American visitors.

GERMAN

Ella Schmitt, GMN exchange student/tutor 06-07, offers these sites:

Dictionaries:

http://dict.leo.org

http://www.canoo.net

http://www.ponsline.de/cgi-bin/wb/w.pl

Grammar:

http://donnerwetter.kielikeskus.helsinki.fi/DvG/Praepos/Praepos-Regeln/Dativ/deutsch.htm

http://www.bss-b.de/DaF/praepositionen.doc

http://cornelia.siteware.ch/grammatik/#Akjektive

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

Ross Ionta, FRN and INB tutor 07-08, likes these sites:

http://globaledge.msu.edu/resourceDesk/

Offers country insights, industry analysis and profiles, and news and views.  Great for doing research on foreign markets and specific industries.  Also offers a comprehensive “how to” guide to doing business for in the specific countries.

Denise Esperança, INB Accounting tutor 04-06, offers this site: 

This site is great for all those interested and majoring (or tutoring!) in International Business and other cultures.
http://www.internationalist.com/business/

Not only does it provide you with info on a large variety of countries, it also talks about international trade, Finance, Travel and multinationals.  It also gives you information on the world's main stock markets. In  addition you can also find info on various international banks. Very useful for those doing projects on different countries or those interested in general culture!

LACA

Sylvia Bolivar, LACA tutor 06-07, suggests these websites:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/country_profiles/default.stm
BBC has "Country Profiles" that provided a decent outline of the country's political and economic history as well as current information.

http://web65.rollins.edu/~jsiry/
Dr. Siry's website for all courses, very useful particularly for Caribbean Environmental History. It takes a little bit of exploring but you will notice that he updates it after every class basically with notes.

http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/las-db/
A listing of useful major research resources in Latin American Studies, all ranging from economics to Congress papers.

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/
Dr. Boniface uses a number of unclassified info from the National Security Archive.

MATH

Heiti Hoffschmidt, MAT 103 tutor 06-07, offers these websites:

1. Even though we have everything explained in our books it may help sometimes to get some other explanations. This webpage offers some good definitions and explanations.http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/steps/glossary/presenting_data.html

2. This page offers some good exercises regarding the distribution.http://www.oswego.edu/~srp/stats/qa_frm.htm

3. This one has a huge dictonary. It is in alphabetical order and you will find everything.http://www.isixsigma.com/dictionary/

4. I could write a novel with links, but there is one thing all MAT 103 students should really use: The CD provided in your book. This CD has a lot of applets and links. You will understand better when you play around with those tools provided. Practice is always the best thing in order to understand the complexity....

Alex Edgar, MAT 103 (Quantitative Reasoning) tutor 03-04, likes these:

I found a great website that can be used by many students not just ones who are taking quantitative reasoning or statistics. Even thought the website focuses on those areas, it has many more helpful links and sites. 

http://www.economics.unimelb.edu.au/students/learning/study.htm

The website is very easy to read and broken down into many different sections. The first section is for anyone who just needs help with basic study skills and habits. The next section is for people who 
specifically need help in economics. The third section is who those who need help in the general area of math. The next section has writing tips. There is also a section for faculty and international students who might be having problems with the language barrier.

The great thing about this website is that it has link from many different places in each section. So depending on what you are needing help with you can click on the different links such as graph skills or concept mapping. Even though the website is titled economics, it has many more resources than just economics and math. 

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Catherine Remler, POL tutor 03-04, finds these sites useful:

http://www.un.org/english/

The UN Website is good for studying International and Comparative Politics. It has tons of statistics on the member countries and it is always updated to provide you with the latest international news. 

http://www.house.gov/   and  http://www.senate.gov/

The House of Representatives and Senate's websites are great for studying American politics.  They give you information on the committees, Senators, Representatives, and the bills that are being debated.

http://www.politics1.com/fl.htm

This last one is a link to Florida politics online.  I haven't searched it as much as the others, but it seems to have some good information, about the Presidential race, the political parties, and candidates for various elections.

PSYCHOLOGY

Angela Florio, PSY tutor 03-05, recommends these:

The first is a psychology specific website with a slew of links to psych resources. It has everything from tutoring and teaching psych to finding online journal resources. I didn't even get through all of the links.
http://psych.athabascau.ca/html/aupr/students.shtml

This next one is a time management quiz you take and then it gives advice at the bottom. Really cool for all of us to take; too bad it's not very interactive though.
http://home.apu.edu/~paustin/time.html

Here's another time management quiz that gives you a total score at the end:
http://www.ucc.vt.edu/lynch/TMQuiz.htm

And here is a study skills quiz that gives instant feedback:
http://owll.massey.ac.nz/general_skills/personal_style/studyQuiz.htm

Missy Curran, PSY tutor 03-04, finds these websites useful for those enrolled in psychology courses:

http://www.docstyles.com/apacrib.htm

I just found this site, and I wish I had known about it earlier. It is a really simple rundown of basic issues for students when writing in APA format. When students learn APA in Stats 1 and Learning, they frequently ask  why there isn't some computer program that will put it into format for them. I actually think there is one out there somewhere, but it's probably costly... and, of course it's best to learn APA by practicing it. This website is broken up into sections corresponding to the major sections of an APA paper. When you click on one section it brings you to a description and some visuals of how the section should appear. The APA Manual can sometimes be hard to understand and this website explains it a bit more simply. Also, on the top it tells when the sheet was updated, and it appears to be up to the standards of the fifth edition, which is the most current manual.

The above page is included on the following website which lists other online resources & examples of APA from various universities and one from APA itself: 

http://www.psywww.com/resource/apacrib.htm

http://www.psych-central.com/

They don't call this site "the hottest link for psychology students & their professors" for nothing. This site appears to have tons of information about a variety of different psych-related things, from writing in APA, to graduate school info to online journals to undergraduate research. My personal favorite section was the Psychology Store, which sells "Humorous Freud/Skinner T-shirts" for $10 plus $1 shipping & handling. Hurry and get yours before they run out!

SOCIOLOGY

Shannon Post, SOC tutor 06-07, likes these sites:

Two good websites about writing sociology papers

(found in http://www.howtostudy.org/)

http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/sociology.html

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/student/soc_sciences/sociology.shtml

Liz Kast, SOC tutor 05-06, suggests these sites:

http://www.sociosite.net/topics/sociologists.php

This website is also extremely useful for gaining a greater understanding of sociological theory. It provides a list of famous sociologists, with a link to each name that includes an array of information on the theorist.

http://www.asanet.org/index.ww

This website connects you to the American Sociological Association’s website. What especially makes this a great website for students is that it provides a link to journals published on the latest topics in sociology. Also check out the link, "What Can I Do With a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology?"

Amanda Wright, SOC tutor f03, picked these websites to check out:

http://www.sonic.net/~markbl/socioweb

This one is for sociology specifically. The key to this website is the section about the "Giants of Sociology."  It has the key theorists summed up nicely. There are also links to journals and other helpful sociological places.
http://www.coun.uvic.ca/learn

This site is for learning skills and tutoring. It has lots of links to different helpful tips for things like writing essays, thinking critically, managing time and task, and reading and understanding texts. There are lots of helpful handouts here.

SPANISH

Danika Tanzini, SPN tutor 06-08, suggests these sites:

http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/exercises/

Great exercises to practice everything from preterite/imperfect, ser/estar, and all verb tenses. Good diversity of exercises with instant, useful feedback. Good resource for after a tutor session or after class to cement everything in.

http://www.studyspanish.com/practice/serest4.htm

This one's OK. There are a lot of exercises but feedback is not as good.

Christina Tori, SPN language tutor 03-04 has these picks:

http://www.studyspanish.com is a good tutorial website for learning basic grammar and stuff and it grades you and gives you the chance to correct your mistakes. It has lots of quizzes for those who learn from repetition.

The following are a list of somewhat random links that vary in quality. They mostly have quizzes and interactive ways to learn vocab and conjugations, etc.

http://www.quia.com/dir/spanish/

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/6177/

(This one deals with idioms, pronunciation, cognates, and riddles)

http://mld.ursinus.edu/~jarana/Ejercicios/

http://www.ilovelanguages.com/

(This one has resources for a variety of languages - a bunch of which i've never heard of - with exercises, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc.)

http://spanish.about.com/

http://www.indiana.edu/~call/lengua.html

http://www.dat.etsit.upm.es/~mmonjas/espannol.html

http://www.spaleon.com/index.php

http://www.andes.org/

(This one is more culture, but it has some exercises too).

http://www.donquijote.com/

(Offers not only exercises to learn Spanish, but also an email newsletter with random lessons and riddles and cultural facts, pen pals, and cultural information - recipes, music, literature, dances, art, cinema, fiestas, etc., plus it offers study abroad options to several places in Spain and Latin America.)