Many of you have been responding to the latest poll with requests for more tips about how to save money, and since many of you may have summer computer purchases coming up I thought now would be a good time to start discussing how to save on those big-ticket purchases!
Desktop or Laptop?
Last summer I debated [...]

Before you head off to buy your student a new computer for college, you might want check the laptop policy on campus! Some professors, especially in graduate programs like business and law schools, have banned laptops from the classroom entirely says a recent article from the Chronicle. These faculty members felt the machines [...]

With only 75% of freshmen graduating on-time (and a significant proportion dropping out), many colleges are turning to technology to help them break the cycle of poor retention and concerning graduation rates. Each school has its own methods, but many are using software that scores students according to their data versus statistical findings.
Translation?
Schools are monitoring [...]

Once littered mostly with cute videos of kittens, amateur skateboard tricks and other fluff, it seems YouTube is now finally making its way into the world of academia.
Just last month I told you where to find UC Berkeley lectures on YouTube. Since then, several other prominent colleges have joined the
YouTube ranks, allowing professors [...]

With students right on top of the ever-evolving technology crazes, more and more colleges are focused on making access to their courses easier. Many have posted lectures on iTunes using “iTunes U,” letting students and others access the lectures over the internet. The University of California at Berkeley has taken it a step [...]

Good grades in high school are one of the biggest tools to getting into college—that can mean long hours of homework and studying.
If your student needs a little extra help with a topic after school hours, he or she can hop on to TeacherTube.com (http://www.teachertube.com). TeacherTube is a lot like the popular YouTube, but [...]

Not close enough to help your kids with homework? New free online software could make it easier—whether you’re in the next town or six states away.
Companies like Google now offer online word-processing and spreadsheet programs, that allow you to save documents online instead of on your hard drive—so you can access them from any computer. [...]

Let’s face it—college can be intimidating. For their entire high school careers, students hear how hard it is going to be to get into college; and how much harder the courses will be when they do get in. Even the best student can be a little worried about what is to come.
Luckily, a [...]

Kaplan Offers SAT Quiz Downloads on iTunes
Do you remember what life was like before the iPod? Your child would come home from school, drop his backpack on the ground, and answer your query of how school went with a simple, “Fine.” With the advent of the iPod, that simple question and answer [...]

This is the first in a series about saving money on things your student will use on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. My opening tips discuss how to save money on one of the ultimate big ticket item purchased for college: a computer.
Don’t you love it when I tell you that you don’t [...]