i>clicker has created a new student response mechanism that runs through a Web browser. web>clicker allows students with any device that runs a standard Web browser to vote using laptops, PDAs, and cell phones. To help with accessibility, web>clicker provides …
75 Free Language Learning Resources Online
Whether you’re trying to learn English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Italian –you get the picture – it’s good to get free help along the way. Luckily, there are tons of free online resources out there. Here are 75 to …
College 2.0: More Professors Could Share Lectures Online. But Should They?
There are good reasons to press the ‘record’ button, but uploading to the Internet might desecrate the classroom.
http://chronicle.com/article/More-Professors-Could-Share/64521/…
What the Vook? – Future Classroom Tool
Vook is a relatively new tool Internet entrepreneur by Bradley Inman. With the idea to combine books and videos, Vook brings these media forms together. A vook is simply defined as a “new innovation in reading that blends a well-written …
The Amazing Web 2.0 Projects Book!
Terry Freedman has released a free ebook on Web 2.0 projects. The book of a compilation of interesting classroom activities using Web 2.0 technologies submitted by several dozen contributors. It’s pretty light and breezy, but the information is well-structured (using …
Snap Groups – Create Private Message Board Groups
Snap Groups is new service that allows anyone to create private or public message groups. In Snap Groups you can create your own group in which to share short messages with other group members. Of most value to educators is …
Jeopardy Labs: Make Your Own Online Jeopardy Game
Playing Jeopardy-style games is a review method that teachers and students have been using for quite a long time. Jeopardy Labs provides a good way for teachers to create a review game that students can play independently or in the …
Nine Tools for Collaboratively Creating Mind Maps
Mind maps or graphic organizers can be invaluable tools for visual thinkers and visual learners. The process of creating a mind map can help students gain an overview perspective on complex, multifaceted concepts. Mind maps can also help students outline …
Packrati.us = Twitter + Delicious
This site provides a useful and very simple bookmarking service for Twitter. They follow your Twitter feed, and whenever one of your tweets contains a URL, they add it to your delicious.com bookmarks. You can optionally, bookmark URLs in @replies …
Please Rob Me: Fun Website Shows How Social Networks Can Expose You
Everybody loves social networks but not everybody understands the risks associated with it. PleaseRobMe is a great tool that shows you how exposing your location on social networks can make you vulnerable to burglars. It uses actual examples from FourSquare …
EssayRater: Checks Essays for Plagiarism & Helps to Improve
EssayRater is a free web app that reviews, grades and checks essays for plagiarism, and helps you to improve them. This tool goes beyond the usual online proof-reading tools by checking your paper for the quality of word choice, sentence …
Lingt: Webtools for Language
Lingt helps people learn the massive number of vocabulary terms required for basic competency in a foreign language. We think the biggest problem with learning a new language is simply giving up, so we’ve built something that we think makes …
Forvo – All the Words in the World Pronounced
Forvo can best be described as an audio wiki for word pronunciations. One of the problems with learning to speak a language that is not phonetic is trying to figure out how to pronounce the words. Forvo hosts hundreds of …
Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On (Article)
The Web is no longer a collection of static pages of HTML that describe something in the world. Increasingly, the Web is the world – everything and everyone in the world casts an “information shadow,” an aura of data which, …
FollowUpThen: Free and Easy Email Reminder
Some people respond to emails on time and some don’t. If you’ve a friend or contact in the latter category it’s worth giving FollowUpThen a shot. You don’t need to sign up for an account to use the service, either: …