A HootCourse is an online classroom that combines some of the most popular social networks, as well as blogging platforms, to offer a new type of online classroom. Each course is built on tweets and status updates, all in real-time. …
Hotseat – Backchannel Platform Coming to a Classroom Near You
Some smart IT folks at Purdue University are developing a new platform for hosting classroom backchannel discussions. The new platform is called Hotseat. According the Hotseat website and the promotional videos, Hotseat will integrate Twitter, Facebook, and mobile device feedback …
Screenjelly – Quick and Easy Screencasting
Screenjelly is a free web-based tool that allows anyone to quickly create a screencast video. To use Screenjelly all you need to do is go to Screenjelly.com and click the big red “record” button. Once clicked Screenjelly will begin recording …
TinEye – Reverse Image Search
Yesterday, Google announced that they were completely revamping the way that image search results were displayed. TinEye is a reverse image search engine. Here’s how it works, upload an image to TinEye or paste an image url into TinEye and …
5 More Websites To Share Videos Privately With Friends & Family
The choice of the right private video sharing website will ultimately boil down to the file size allowed and the ease of sharing with the right kind of privacy features. So try out the five below and let us in …
FreeVideoLectures: 740 + Free Online Video Courses From Leading Universities
This website has a great motto: “to organize the world’s educational videos and make them universally accessible and down-loadable”. They offer 740 + free online video courses from leading universities universities. All courses are categorized by Subjects and Universities.
Smart.fm: Helps To Learn Stuff Quickly & Remember Longer
Who said learning and social networking cannot come together? Smart.fm is a fun website that combines education with social networks. The web app serves as an online academic assistant that offers courses to anyone who wants to learn about any …
ImageBase: Public Domain High Resolution Images
The internet is filled with pictures on any topic and you can easily search for them. But your search results will usually display a random collection of pictures. ImageBase can be a new image source if you are looking for …
A Simple Guide to Google Video Chat
Google Video Chat is a nice alternative to Skype available to anyone using Gmail. Some folks aren’t aware of how easy it is to video chat using Google Video Chat. Therefore, yesterday Google released a simple video guide and PDF …
Is There a Better Way to Find Email Attachments?
DokDok enhances your inbox to make it easy to find, work on and share the latest version of any document.
Sciyo: Read and Publish Scientific Journals and Books Online
Sciyo is an interesting portal that brings together scientists and science students from all over the world. The platform offers tons of books and articles related to science and also allows you to publish yours without any hassle. Over 200 …
Sweet Search – A Search Engine for Students
Sweet Search is a search engine that searches only the sites that have been reviewed and approved by a team of librarians, teachers, and research experts. In all there are 35,000 websites that have been reviewed and approved by Sweet …
3 Informational E-Books for Teachers and Educators
With all the great resources, websites, articles and other helpful information for educators, it may sometimes be hard to keep track of all these items. What better a way to integrate technology into the classroom than to start by doing …
Your Next Read – Book Recommendations
Your Next Read is a neat little site that provides you with a web of book recommendations based on the authors and books you already like. Here’s how it works; type in the title of a book you like or …
Free Online Conversion of Many Media Formats
Online-ConVert is a great site that handles video, audio, text, and image conversions all in one place. Online-ConVert handles all of those media formats plus ebook and hash conversion in one central location.
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