If you have an e-reader you know the advantages of them. Besides being easier to flip pages, you can also download new books within seconds while going about your daily errands. If it’s been a while since you’ve been out to your local public library, but you want to take advantage of the “free” books you can borrow, try downloading a few.

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Feeling connected to your virtual classmates should never be a problem during your online studies. With products like Skype and Google video chat, talking to someone face-to-face, whether he or she is on the opposite side of town (or the globe), has become quite convenient. Check out this list of free and open source web conferencing tools for e-learning from E-Learning Frontier that can get you on your way.

- Online Learning Tips Staff

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American Public University will be hosting its next Virtual Career Fair from February 23 – March 2, 2011. This event will be hosted using NACElink. In order to participate, APUS students and alumni must register for a NACElink account.

Check out the 5 rules to participating in a virtual career fair.

This week we have chosen a great site that allows you to highlight text on any webpage on the internet, and it automatically stores it for you to view later. It’s like bookmarking a page, only more intuitive. iCyte is free to download and easy to use. Once you download it to your computer it places an icon in your browser toolbar. From there you use it whenever you want to mark up a webpage, article, blog post and have it automatically saved.

You can make notes, groups, tags, and you can share the information you found through social media channels and e-mail. This saves you time and effort when you want to reference the information on any page for classwork. When you want to use it you simply go to the site, login and choose which page with notes you were looking to use.

Just one more thing to make your online experience a little easier to maintain.

- By J. Mason