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

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)

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)

You can browse these animations through channels, search for them or even browse the most popular or recent ones. Similar to YouTube, you can also post comments to an animation, and the best feature of all, embed them on your website free of cost. Since Explania animations are of real high-quality, there are usually much better than an equivalent YouTube video.

Features:

• Watch and share educational animations.
• Read and post comments.
• Embed animations on your website.
• Upload your own animation.
• No registration required.

Visit Explania @ http://www.explania.com

It is already a known fact that children can learn music lyrics faster than they can learn their science or math concepts. That is why RhymenLearn brings these concepts and notes into lyrics form by rapping them in a music video to further enhance the learning experience of children.

Just visit RhymenLearn and choose whether you want to learn about Science or Maths. Once done, find the lesson you are looking for, open it and play the video and start learning.

Features

• Free of charge – no account required.
• Students stand a better chance of learning rap music than their notes.
• Lyrics can be found at the side of the video if you just want to rote-learn.

Check out RhymenLearn @ http://rhymenlearn.com (via Wwhts)

To use the service, just visit the website and search for the thing you are looking for, for example “history” and the website will provide you with different websites that provide you with information about that subject. You can choose to view the website and check the information out, or even save the website to your favorites to view later.

Users can even create small websites for their classes regarding different subjects, and custom quizzes to test the skills of their students or readers.

Features

• Discover and share educational material the easy way.
• Ability to create custom quizzes and websites for students.
• Create class websites.
• Free and easy to use.

Check out 19Pencils @ http://19pencils.com

The games cover main prize categories including physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace. Most of the games have embedded descriptions that give an overview / understanding of the concept. Each game can be rated, commented on or shared with others easily. The games are all web based and don’t require and any download or plugin installation.

Features:

• Learn about Nobel prize topics through educational games.
• Over 30 games in 5 different categories.
• No registration required.

Visit NobelPrizeGames @ http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/all_productions.html [Via FreeTech4Teachers]