Tool Kit - What you need to survive school and extracirriculars

~Let's take a journey together, and let reality mix with the dream realm~

It's time to build your club,

you have the materials and everything you need.

It's just time to learn what tools you have and to use them.

StudyBlue 
This is a flashcard website, but it's a fancier and more group oriented version of Quizlet. For premium, you can personalize your cards, make them longer, colorful whatever you want. Unlike Quizlet, you'll be able to put pictures and text on the front at the same time; it's a lot more interactive and customizable. You'll be able to organize your flashcards by classes. The only problem is that if a set of cards is private or protected then you'll usually have to pay to see or use those flashcards. Something that I find really handy is (when you are making flashcards) the little screen to the right where once you click on the backside of the flashcard it searches whatever you may have typed in to fill it in for you. If you are good at making notes, I suggest you use this website: you may be able to make some money off it, as far as I heard.

Quizlet
Quizlet is a downplayed and more watered down version of Study Blue. There are flashcards on every possible topic and word you can think off, but when you make flashcards on there, as far as I know you can't customize the cards or make them more interactive. You can't make your cards private either; once information is on there, it's on there for the world to study. The general quizzing yourself off the flashcards is similar to study blue, but more customizable than study blue.

Google and Google Drive
Google Drive has saved my behind quite a few times, and I just breathe Google. It's a useful search engine, and it's also useful to test how useful your club website is or find pointers for just about anything. One of the most useful apps is Drive though: it's easy to share documents, powerpoints, spreadsheets, forms and even make folders to organize them. It's all a very simple layout, but once it gets down to it and you start to customize what kind of add-ons you have on your Google drive, that's where the ingenuity comes in. Although what you can do can be compared to Microsoft Office, this is nothing compared to it. This is a good makeshift for when you need to make a quick essay that you can keep track off and won't lose on your computer. I find it's more easy to play around with the format and the style on Microsoft Office and Powerpoint, but other than that, I use Google Drive just about everyday. Another add-on is the Google forms, an easy way to get public opinion and keep track of orders for merchandise or just get general information of different board members and keep everything in one place.

Wolfram Alpha
This website reminds me of a much more dependable Wikipedia mixed in with Google. You can search just about any topic and you have an expanse of knowledge on your fingertips. It's like instant noodles, but like research. I haven't used this site as much as others, but as far as I hear, it's pretty up there in terms of usefulness.
Wix
This webs

ite is a website for all who are website impaired. It makes it very convenient to make a website for your club, organization, photography, makeup portfolio just about anything and everything.You can select a basic layout and use your own photos to customize and make your page special! It's especially useful for people who are really good at designing, but not so great at coding: everything is already set for you and you just have to set everything up to your preference/standards!

Weebly
Weebly is a go between for Wix and Webs, user-friendly, slightly challenging but you have less options than you would with webs!
Webs
A slightly more difficult and less user-friendly domain to create your own website, this website gives the most versatility and challenge since you'll be able to code and program and lay out your website all on your own. Virtually, you're mostly building everything from the ground up on your own, so whatever you wish to do, if you know how to code it, you got it!






Prezi 
Prezi is a more fancier and sort of like a hipster version of Microsoft Powerpoint. There're instructions and it's user friendly, but it can be time consuming  and a bit complex when you're in for a time squeeze; it's a stylish
and chic way to present information and make yourself stand out with different forms and styles of presentation and connect all of the ideas through different formats i.e. timelines, slides, etc.
Dropbox
Dropbox is essentially a backup for all of your files. It'll help you keep everything you need just in case something goes wrong on that laptop that your dad got you when you were in elementary, and all of the files just somehow disappear. It's an easy way to share documents between multiple groups of people as well.
Google Reflectors
These are mainly networking groups for you to find people who have been or currently are in your position and get feedback from them on any questions you may have. It's a good way to get tips and tricks from people who have already been through a term and to be able to help other people who may need help as well.
These are the most common websites that I've heard of being used and I think they will be the most useful for you during your term in any club, whatever it may be. Since it is 2014, most likely the websites will change and newer and better programs will pop up, but until then, let's just use these for now!

Until next time dreamers-sweet dreams,

Marilyn Nguyen
P.S. Thank you to all the amazing people who helped with this article! They were all fabulous and very helpful in explaining to me how the websites I didn't use worked if I asked them and didn't already know fully. LOLOL.
Vincent Quan
Victoria Bui
Kenny Yeung
Angel Le
Caroline Ba