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

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

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)

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

Seterra is a handy utility for Windows that allows users to try out more than 100 different geography exercises. All of these exercises are practiced on a virtual map, and every detail is shown on the map.

These exercises teach a person a lot about the world, including details about a country, capitals, oceans, flags, and even cities throughout the world. The program can be used in classrooms to make learning more interactive and fun and even used at home to intensify learning and make the child learn more about the place he lives in, or about the world.

Just check the System requirements required, and if you meet those requirements, download the program for your PC, and you can start learning about the world in a completely new manner.

Features

• Free software.
• Great for students and people who want to have some general knowledge about the world and its places.
• Available in more than one language.
• Similar site: Bhoogolvidya,
• Also read related articles:

Challenge Someone And Test Your Geography Knowledge
10 Online Geography Games That Help Kids Know More About The World

Check out Seterra @ www.seterra.net (via FreeTech4Teachers)

RefDot easily grabs the information you need from Amazon’s listing for the item. When you are viewing a book on Amazon, the link to reference the item will automatically appear in the top right corner of the screen. If you click that, the handy extension will grab all the information about the book from Amazon’s database and store it for later access.

You can click the extension’s icon to view and edit your references and add new ones manually. You can click “View List” to access  your references and edit, and export them to .txt or .html. This extension is a must have for students who want to make referencing books easier.

Features:

• Grabs book information from Amazon and stores it for later access.
• Makes bibliographies easier.
• Edit information in your browser.
• Export to .txt or .html.
• Similar tools: EasyBib and BibMe.

Find RefDot @ the Chrome Web Store

Interactive Biology is a handy website that helps students learn biology in an effective way. The website breaks down biology concepts into small parts, thus making it easy to understand complicated theories in a simple way.

The website allows users to watch videos that break down topics such as neuroscience and physiology into smaller, easier to understand topics. To make learning more effective, quizzes have been added on the website to test whether the student understood the lectures or not.

If you have any problem or cannot find what you are looking for, you can sign up on the Interactive Biology forums and ask for help. You can even interact with other people and share your knowledge. However, as of December 2011, the forums are still under construction and not available to the public.

The website offers paid study guides as well if you want to learn about any topic in more detail.

Features

• Makes learning more interactive and fun.
• Free service with many topics to cover some of the most basic, and important ones.
• Take quizzes to test your skills.
• Download lecture videos.
• Buy Biology study guide for $34.95.
• Similar tools: WatchKnowLearn and AnatomyArcade,

Check out Interactive Biology @ www.interactive-biology.com

The site lists a huge number of stores, namely Amazon Trade-In, Bookstores.com, SellBackYourBook, BookRenter and many more. If you are planning to sell a textbook anytime soon, this site is worth checking out.

Features

• Search textbook buyback prices across various stores.
• Needs the ISBN of the book to compare prices.
• Huge number of stores listed.
• Also shows payment modes and shipping details.

Check out Direct Textbooks @ www.directtextbook.com (By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)