Part 1 (Part 2, Part 3)
By Robin Nobles

It's hard to believe that school will be starting soon in some school districts. Where has the summer gone? It's still here, but school is here too!

The Internet offers some excellent resources for helping your kids with their school projects. However, here's a word of advice regarding the Internet. Make sure that you can trust the Web sites you use as research tools for your children's school
projects. At the bottom of the Web page, look to see who created the Web site. Can that organization or person be trusted to provide accurate and up-to-date information?

This first site is where it all begins: learning how to study. If you're lacking basic study and organizational techniques, the rest of your learning experiences will be frustrating. At Study Guides and Strategies, you'll find pointers for effective study
habits, managing your time, setting goals, making a schedule, overcoming test anxiety, public speaking, and even how to concentrate and memorize. You'll find help with solving math problems and learn how to prepare for exams and how to take
exams, no matter what their format. Joe Landsberger at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, created the site. http://www.iss.stthomas.edu/studyguides/

It's time for your child's first research paper, so where do you begin? Your child could spend hours at your local or school library, which is always an option, or he or she could research from your computer screen at a site such as the Awesome Library, created by Dr. Jerry Adams of the Evaluation and Development Institute. Let's say his or her first assignment is to do a short paper on conservative views and the upcoming election. Under the Social Studies category, you'll find subtopics including Conservative Views, Current Events, Presidential Election 2004, and more. The site also offers lesson plans for teachers, news stories, and even projects that students can do in each subject area. http://www.awesomelibrary.org/

(Continued in Part 2)

Robin Nobles teaches SEO strategies through hands-on, search engine marketing workshops (http://www.searchengineworkshops.com)
and online SEO courses (http://www.onlinewebtraining.com). Visit the World Resource Center, a networking community for search engine marketers. (http://www.sew-wrc.com) Is your Web site gathering dust but not customers? http://www.tnt-guide.com andhttp://www.wordtracker-magic.com.

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