Bland presentations come to life when you add audio and video elements. Audio also becomes much more important when you are sending presentations online. Fortunately, Hello Slide is a text-to-speech mashup that lets you add audio overlays to presentations and then host them for you. Once you have uploaded your PDF, you can go through [...]
Preparing for a quiz can be a difficult task if you do not know where to start the preparation from. But like most other things, this is something the Internet can help you out with. For students, a site called QuizMeOnline will prove to be a highly useful resource. QuizMeOnline is a free to use [...]
College students can use all the educational resources they can get their hands on. While books and notes go a long way, sometimes having somebody visually explain the material uniquely helps. This is precisely why many students prefer watching online video lectures about the topics they are preparing for. A wonderful source for such lectures [...]
Teaching science to kids is always towing a fine line. On one hand, you need to explain science in simple terms to keep students engaged. On the other hand, you do not want to oversimplify things lest they do not learn anything. Since teachers need all the help they can get, Spongelabs is a welcome [...]
If you are thinking of starting a study group online then you should try out Thinkbinder. This website builds a social-like platform for study groups to share files, post ideas and status updates, collaborate, and just keeping in touch. Creating a study group with Thinkbinder takes less than a minute. Then, you will find a [...]
If you are looking for free downloadable audio books, then you should check out AudioLiterate. This website archives and displays free MP3 audiobooks from classical and public domain titles, allowing you to stream or download these files for your pleasure. AudioLiterate lets you search for audio files by author and genre. The simple homepage shows [...]
The Faculty Project is a handy online website that is dedicated to bringing some of the finest educational material online from some of the most experienced professors in the world. 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 [...]
Textbooks and exams are all good when it comes to teaching math, but how do the students know when/how to apply that math in the real world? GetTheMath is a project that aims to do just that, i.e. teaching students how math is used in the fields of fashion design, video game design and music [...]
Wolfram has long been offering educational tools for teachers and students. Its latest is an online tool that offers teachers the ability to easily deliver math concepts to their students. The tool is called Wolfram Education Portal. Wolfram Education Portal is a free to use online tool that helps teachers with the math courses they [...]
When you are researching anything, you often collect a huge number of resources and you may subsequently find it difficult to manage them. The task becomes even more difficult if you are working in a laboratory. But if your lab work involves research relevant to life sciences, you can use a helpful service called LabGuru [...]