Soundzabound is an online royalty free music database that lets you download MP3 music files that you can use in school projects or presentations. They are professionally produced and organized by theme or category. It also includes loops and sound effects so the collection is pretty vast. You need to sign up to their site [...]
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 topic. First, sign up and connect your social networking site accounts to Smart.fm. After registration, [...]
Learning in isolation can be hard. One of the main benefits of learning math in a classroom is having instructors demonstrate solving a certain problem, explaining how each step of the process works. MathTV.com aims to give you at least some of this benefit via the power of online video. Find a problem similar to [...]
Let’s face it, learning isn’t easy! More so when you are trying to learn through boring textbooks. It has often been proved that learning gets easier when your mind takes it as a challenge and engages willingly. SheppardSoftware is a website that completely makes use of these ideologies. SheppardSoftware is a collection of hundreds of [...]
If you are a teacher looking for free websites to create online courses, then you should check out Udemy. This educational tool allows you to draft and publish your own interactive course complete with videos, presentations, articles, mashups, and live sessions. You can create individual lectures within Udemy where you can add appropriate teaching materials [...]
It doesn’t matter if you are a casual bird enthusiast or a professional ornithologist, you are bound to like eBird. It is a great resource with tons of information on birds such as their frequency, arrivals and departures, high counts and much more. You can view this data as charts, histograms, tables or maps. The [...]
Learning from a book is so old-fashioned. Kids today are so much into technology that it has to be the medium for their education. ABCya is one such site that allows children to learn through thousands of interactive browser based games for kids. Activities and games are categorized by the educational level of the kid [...]
More and more desktop applications are moving to the cloud, and Kubbo proves that educational software is not immune. The service provides a wide variety of online educational computer activities for students including flash cards for language learning, example tests and quizzes and crossword puzzles. Teachers can track students activities and access their progress. Teachers [...]
CarrotSticks is an application that helps children at 1st – 5th grade level solve math problems, step by step, in a friendly environment. Children can practice on their own, or compete against friends suggested by the CarrotSticks network. Though the service supports math multiplayer games, letting children have some fun through competition with others, it [...]
There always seem to be a love-hate relationship when we study Math. But for those who do love Math, MathRun is a fun website that lets you get math practice & test your speed and skills in mathematics. The objective of the game is to quickly answer whether the equations shown are correct or incorrect [...]
TheFuturesChannel is an educational website that provides first-rate video clips for educators which they can use for lively classroom lectures and discussions. Here you can browse videos for a wide range of categories like Agriculture, Animals, Environment, Earth Science, Space Science, Sports, and more. These videos are short, well-defined, insightful and on-point. Each video has [...]
Are you fond of creating your own crossword puzzles for print? Then you should try out Discovery Education’s Puzzlemaker! It is a website that allows you to create customized puzzles online. This fun app features a variety of puzzles: word search, criss-cross, double puzzles, fallen phrases, math squares, mazes, letter tiles, cryptograms, number blocks and [...]
One of the most important aspects in learning a foreign language is building your vocabulary. Memorista is a free language education website that helps you learn foreign words with intuitive learning tools such as flash cards and mnemonics. Memorista teaches vocabulary for 5 languages: French, German, Italian, Polish and Spanish. You don’t need to register [...]
Regular expressions are very powerful, and many people find it tough to cope without their unusual syntax. Here is a web based regular expression testing tool which helps you with learning and testing regular expression patterns. It enables you to enter regular expressions, and see matches in real-time with an easy to use interface. In [...]
Virtual Museum is a website that lets you browse a number of European museums online, and explore the most remarkable items of European prehistoric culture and heritage. You may browse and view items by country, museum, time period BC and categories. Each item has it is own page with related historical & archeological information and [...]
More and more people are choosing online education to take care of their needs rather than attending a regular college. This is to fit their schedule better or due to financial constraints. GuideToOnlineSchools.com is a web directory of online schools that has thousands of reviews and profiles of schools over the world which teach online. [...]
Voicethread is a powerful tool for creating multimedia slideshows and lectures. The application combines different media to create effective teaching materials and projects, stored online and easily shared and commented on by others. Voicethread works with the idea that each picture is worth a thousand words. User can view slideshows, zoom and pan through images, [...]
There are numerous sites you could go to for current news in politics, technology, science and entertainment such as TIME or Cnet. However, FORA.tv is at the forefront of the online revolution with really interesting video interviews, talks, lectures, rants about politics, innovation and ideas from notable world leaders, political pundits, and industry leaders. If [...]
Knowledge Genie is an online publishing platform which lets you organize your knowledge of a certain topic into a dedicated learning portal (Genie) and share it with other people. For each different topic you can create a separate Genie. It doesn’t require technical skills and takes care of the process of building and centralizing the [...]
University of the People (UoPeople) is the first tuition-free online university and is backed by United Nations Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technology and Development (GAID). UoPeople is non-profit organization and aims to provide higher eduction to people in all countries regardless of their financial means and geographical location. It uses open-source technology and [...]