Creating a study group with Thinkbinder takes less than a minute. Then, you will find a dashboard where you can post your news feeds, upload files, and share ideas on a whiteboard. You can invite friends through e-mail and once they are all in, you can collaborate through video chat, private messages, and more. Anyone can join the group as long as they know the code to your study group.

Thinkbinder also lets you post stuff from the web using the Bind bookmarklet. This helps students in clipping, referencing, or sharing resources that members in the group can learn from. And while this tool is designed for study groups, it finds more mileage in other uses like meetings, as a private group network, or even as a tool for teachers.

Features:

• Start your study group.
• Use the Bind bookmark button to share with study group.
• Add buddies and start a video chat.
• Add status to your news feed.
• Share files and post in whiteboard.
• Join study group by entering the code.
• Similar Tools:  OpenStudy, P2PU, and Khan Academy.

Check out Thinkbinder @ www.thinkbinder.com

AudioLiterate lets you search for audio files by author and genre. The simple homepage shows the recently added book, genre categories, as well as feature audiobooks. Clicking on an entry will allow you to download the whole audio file from archive.org, although you can also choose to stream each chapter with their embedded audio player.

With several public domain titles available, AudioLiterate is a great way to consume all these great works as it makes it very easy to access for students, audiobook listeners, and avid readers. The site’s collection is currently sparse, but expect more books to become available as the website grows.

Features:

• Free streaming and download of audiobooks.
• Categorized by genre and author.
• Stream audiobooks by chapter.
• Read book description before listening.
• Similar Tools: Audiobooks App, Audiobooks.com, and Librophile.

The Faculty Project has sought to bring some of the world’s best professors from the world’s leading universities online – available free for students, making effective use of their computers, tablet and smartphone devices.

The Professors range from diverse fields of teaching – history, economics, anthropology, and more. They also range from some of the world’s finest universities such as the University of Miami, University of Southern California, Dartmouth College and more.

Making use of this helpful service is easy. Just visit the website and look below for courses that are currently available. Choose one, and click on the button that says “Enroll”. You can then make an account or sign up with your Facebook account to access the course. The courses are conducted through video lectures, slides and PDFs.

Features

• Service is free to use and helpful.
• Some of the world’s most finest professors dispensing their knowledge.
• Variety of courses available to study.
• Similar tools:  Computer Science 101, FreeVideoLectures and Lectr.

Check out Faculty  Project @ www.facultyproject.com (via FreeTech4Teachers)

Once students have watched the videos, they can take online quizzes to apply what they learned to a real world problem.  The website also has a 30 minute video showing how a particular teacher used GetTheMath to teach his kids. High school students can also participate in a math contest to sharpen their math skills.

The website mostly focuses on the use of algebra as compared to other areas of math.

Features:

• See use of algebra in fields of fashion, music and video game design.
• Take challenges to apply your knowledge.
• No registration needed.
• Similar tools: RhymenLearn, Math Workout and Mathematics In Movies.

Visit GetTheMath @ www.thirteen.org/get-the-math [Via FreeTech4Teachers]

Wolfram Education Portal is a free to use online tool that helps teachers with the math courses they are teaching. Mainly the tool focuses on algebra and calculus. Among the many tools offered by the Education Portal, teachers will find an eTextbook, a lesson plan, demonstration tools such as graphs, and widgets such as calculators to solve questions quickly. Soon the site will be offering practice questions with answers.

To get started with the site, you will have to sign up for an account on it and then download its player through which you will be able to use the online tools.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Helps teachers teach math courses.
• Supports algebra and calculus.
• Offers numerous tools such as lesson plans, online textbooks, and widgets.
• Similar tools: RhymenLearn and Mathematics In Movies.

Check out Wolfram Education Portal @ http://education.wolfram.com (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

LabGuru is free for personal use and is meant for people researching topics related to life sciences. When you sign up, you specify your university, designation, as well as your research areas. Next you start your research by entering its title and a description. You are then provided with clearly sorted fields in which you classify your sources and results.

For example you can store papers and images in the Knowledgebase category.

You can use LabGuru to record the milestones achieved in your research and you can add a description with each entry. Records for results, specimens, and materials can all be recorded in the online interface.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you organize research.
• Targeted at research relevant to life sciences.
• Offers categories to clearly sort research material.

Check out LabGuru @ http://www.labguru.com  (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

Citelighter is a handy Firefox toolbar that grabs information directly from the source and stores all the bibliographical information for you. You simply need to highlight the information you need and tell the toolbar to capture it. It will pull as much bibliographical information from the webpage as it can find, and you may only have to enter a couple of fields. Once you save it, it will be stored on your account and accessible from anywhere.

Once you finish gathering information, you can start writing your paper or working on your outline from the app. You can even share your findings with friends via Facebook.

Video demo:

Features:

• Easily keep track of your research in one place.
• Automatically logs bibliographical information from sources.
• Syncs to your account so you can get access to your research from anywhere.
• Ability to share your findings with others via Facebook.
• Ability to write paper right from the app.
• Similar tools: Snippin, Sniply, GotProject, Memonic, WebNotes, RoohIt, iCyte, Ibrii, Markkit, AwesomeHightlighter and more.

Find Citelighter @ www.citelighter.com

Once you have an equation created you can quickly adjust the size of the output and then save it as an image file to your computer for later use. It is a painless process for parents who need to set this sort of thing up for their kids, or anyone who wants to make some cool equations for any reason at all.

You can save certain base equations as favorites for later access. So if, for example, you were focused on Matrices, you could have them in your favorites for quicker access. Similarly, you can use the history feature to get access to the equations you have recently used.

Features:

• Use Latex to make equations and save them as images for later.
• Easy enough to use with little or no coding skill.
• Save favorites for quicker access later.
• Export to many popular image formats.
• Adjust size and font of output.
• Similar tools: Daum Equation Editor, Fooplot and Text2img.

Find Code Cogs Equation Editor @ homeschoolmath.net

SmarTots is a website which provides the best educational apps for children to use and enhance their learning skills. SmarTots-compatible applications allow parents to get a report of the time spent by the children on these apps, the type of game they most prefer (maths, science, art, etc.) and so on.

With the reports generated, SmarTots can also recommend you with similar applications, which will allow you to further enhance your children’s learning skills and their knowledge in that particular field.

To use SmarTots, just visit the App Reviews section, and select the age or content area for your field. You will then be displayed the reviews of all those apps suitable for that age/content.

Features

• SmarTots reviews both paid and free apps.
• Find suitable apps for your children.
• Statistical reports allow parents to discover interests of children.
• Similar tools: KinderTown and MyAmericanFarm.

Check out Smartots @ www.smartots.com (via FreeTech4Teachers)

Daum Equation Editor is a free to use browser tool that comes as a browser extension for Google Chrome. The extension provides you with an equation editing interface that lets you input equations in two ways. Firstly you can add equations and special signs using the top row of functions and then entering the numerical or variable values in the equation that appears. The second way is to type up the equation like you would in software like MATLAB.

Both ways, you will be able to get a clear visual picture of the equation that you can later choose to export to a simple text file or, if you want to keep the visual feel intact, you can export the equation to PNG image with a transparent background.

Features:

• A user-friendly browser app.
• Compatible with Google Chrome.
• Lets you write and edit equations.
• Lets you export equations to simple text file.
• Lets you export equation to PNG image.
• similar tools: Fooplot and Text2img.

Check Daum Equation Editor @ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dinfmiceliiomokeofbocegmacmagjhe (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)