The Best Free Training

Looking for some great resources to help your kids succeed at school this year? Here’s a list of some of The Best Free Training reviews published in the last year that might help you find what you’re looking for. Enjoy!

Pictured above: One of many great free resources for students reviewed on this website last year. Check out the list below!

• Study PDFs & eBooks, then Highlight & Add Notes with PDF-XChange Viewer
• Khan Academy: Over 1600 Videos on Math, Science & More!
• Best of LearnOutLoud’s Free Resources
• How to Upload PDFs (eBooks) to Your iPad, Kindle, Sony Reader & NOOK
  
• LinkExtend Toolbar: Learn More While You Search & Stay Safe!
• 2010 Collection: Boredom Breakers for Kids on Summer Vacation
• click! photography changes everything
• Simple Studies Online Accounting Training
• Get Ready for Your SAT Exams (College Boards)!
• Web MD Health Video A-Z: Videos & Much More!
• From AARP: “How to Learn Just About Anything Online … For Free”
• Guide to Online Schools’ Listing of Free Online Classes
• 2009 Update: The Kid Stuff Collection
• Stocking stuffers? Why not stuff an iPod or MP3 player with free learning challenges?
• Free Kindle Software + 1000s of Free Downloads = Free Kindle Books on Your PC!
• eduFire Business Channel: Attend or Teach Free Online Business & Career Classes
• Over 6000 Free Math Worksheets!
• Study Skills Guide from Education Atlas

Below are links to Back to School Guides that I published in previous years at this time. Most of the sites reviewed are still going strong, so I hereby encourage you to revisit these posts. Happy back-to-school days!

From 2009…

• 2009 Back to School Guide: Useful Free Resources for Students

From 2008…

• Back to School Guide: Useful Free Resources for Students

Topic: Math and science (comprehensive) and many other topics
Format: Online videos with self-paced practice exercises, feedback, and instruction [free Google account needed for exercises]
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com

This site is amazing!! Hundreds and hundreds of videos take you from the simplest math basics through the most complicated calculus and trigonometry. Broad science topics include many videos on biology, organic chemistry, physics and more.

Finally, there’s an idiosyncratic collection of other videos on topics as far-ranging as brain teasers, history, and the Geitner plan to solve the banking crisis!

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Are your kids complaining about nothing to do this summer? Are you wishing they would use their summer vacation to learn something new or brush up on some basic skills? Then this collection of recent posts from The Best Free Training may be worth a second look:

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Topic: SAT exam & test preparation
Format: Websites with text descriptions, graphics, quizzes, sample questions w/feedback & solutions
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com

It’s that time of year again! SAT exams will be held all over the country.  Over the years, I’ve reviewed several great free resources that can help students prepare for these exams. They’re worth a second look:

• SAT Skills Insight: Get Ready for the SAT Exam
• ProProfs Online Free SAT Exam Study Center

You might also find these reviews related to General Study Skills valuable:

• How to Study
• Graphic Organizers: Tools for Instructors & Students [& Parents!
• Google Guide: Making Searching Even Easier
• 2009 Back to School Guide: Useful Free Resources for Students

Topic: How to use Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn
Format: Web-based introductory tutorials and more
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com

Have you been avoiding any of these great free social media tools because you can’t figure out where to start? Or, worse, have you signed up for them and find yourself clicking around aimlessly, wondering how to use them to accomplish your goals? Then it’s about time you for you to become more systematic in your self-teaching approach and take advantage of some of the free online training and info available for these products.  In this post, we’ll briefly review some of these resources.

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Topic: Online Colleges and courses
Format: Collection of links, reviews, and more
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com

The GuidetoOnlineSchools.com includes listings of free courses from Arizona State University, MIT, Yale University, Notre Dame, UMass Boston, Tufts OpenCourseware, University of California and more.

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On The Best Free Training, we’ve posted lots of reviews of free training and educational resources for kids of all ages, from pre-school through college.  Here’s the 2009 update of our Kid Stuff Collection.

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