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Hypothesis

Use Hypothesis to collaboratively annotate, highlight, and tag documents and hold discussions, read socially, organize your research, and take personal notes on webpages, PDFs, and EPUBs. Social reading with collaborative annotation helps people connect to each other and what they’re reading. Hypothesis Keywords: collaborative document editing, close reading
Toodledo

The tool has paid options but it’s free version is really powerful tool which is highly recommended to organize your life.
Mega

MEGA provides secure cloud storage and communication. Privacy protection is built-in by design. This service provides end-to-end encryption. In the future, MEGA will continue to develop innovative products and features that complement its existing platform to help improve security on the Internet without compromising on usability. Mega
You Need A Wiki

You Need A Wiki (YNAW) is a simple, yet effective tool for creating a wiki utilizing Google Docs for editing and your Google Drive for storage. This tool is ideal if you work with Google regularly and maintain a Google Drive. You simply create an account and then import folders from Google drive into YNAW.…
LearningApps

LearningApps.org is a Web 2.0 application, to support learning and teaching processes with small interactive modules. Those modules can be used directly in learning materials, but also for self-studying. The aim is to collect reusable building blocks and make them available to everyone. Blocks (called Apps) include no specific framework or a specific learning scenario.…
Kanopy

Kanopy offers thoughtful entertainment free of charge by partnering with public libraries and universities. Individuals affiliated with a library or educational institution can utilize these resources to educate and raise awareness about important issues. It has movies categorized by genre. The user may also use the search feature to find relevant content based on the…
MeisterTask

MeisterTask is an intuitive project and task management tool on the web and mobile. With its powerful collaboration features and flexible, Kanban-style project boards, MeisterTask lets you and your team manage projects of all types and sizes. It keeps you up to date on your project progress and it makes sure that you never lose…
Doodle Buddy

Doodle Buddy is the most fun your fingers can have on a Windows device! It’s like finger-painting, but instead of getting your fingers messy, you get to create amazing works of art that you can share with friends. Even non-artists can create a masterpiece with thousands of colors, stencils, and stamps. Doodle Buddy
Medium

Medium is a publishing platform with a social twist. The platform has 120 million readers that are able to directly follow the publisher or the writer they want and read their articles. The platform encourages writers from all over the world to become a member and publish on its platform. The social aspect of the…
PowerNotes

The PowerNotes Chrome extension eliminates the need to copy and paste or employ other poor processes to capture content. PowerNotes users just highlight material they find useful, include an annotation if appropriate, and then categorize the highlight into a topic of their choosing. PowerNotes is designed to unify the steps of reading, gathering, saving, annotating,…
Testmoz

Testmoz is a tool for creating online tests. It is easy to use and has a free version. You can create a test without logging in. The paid version gives you the opportunity to create a bank of items from which to automatically generated individual tests for each student. Testmoz Testmoz Introduction Video
Laravel

Laravel is a web application development and rapid prototyping tool that uses PHP to create applications while supporting most of the popular tools for database management and front end scripting. The tool’s website states “Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation – freeing you to create without…
Wordwall

Wordwall is a tool that helps you to create better lessons quicker. Wordwall is an easy-to-use tool that lets you create a series of interactive games and activities for students. Find a series of templates that you can freely copy and adapt to your requirements. It has a nice interface and is easy to use.…
Mentimeter

With Mentimeter, you can create fun and interactive presentations, polls, brainstorming sessions in meetings, classes, gatherings, conferences, and others with real-time feedback. It is an easy-to-use PowerPoint presentation alternative that lets you engage and interact with your audience in real-time. You set the questions and your audience can give their input via a mobile phone…
Joplin

Joplin is a free, open-source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organized into notebooks. The notes are searchable, can be copied, tagged, and modified either from the applications directly or from your own text editor. The notes are in Markdown format. The notes can be synchronized with various…
Typology of Free Web-based Learning Technologies

The 2020 Typology of Free Web-based Learning Technologies from the EDUCAUSE research library contains 226 free technologies arranged into 40 types and 15 clusters that educators can use to promote more productive and interactive learning. Brief descriptions, example tools and pedagogical uses are provided for each category. This Typology has been developed by Matt Bower…
Hoax or Fact

Hoax or Fact is an attempt to spread knowledge and wisdom. To bring out the truths and facts behind all kinds of online rumors and hoax messages. The people, at Hoax or Fact, research, and analysis of various online issues in-depth, so as to put a check on all kinds of online spammers, thus preventing…
Bitly

Bitly is a link management and URL shortening tool. It can help track how many clicks the shortened link receives, what geographic location the clicks are coming from, and automatically generates QR codes for your Bitly links. In addition, Bitly allows you to track engagement metrics, giving you a clearer picture of how well your…
Online Discussion Boards & Professor’s Presence – 10 Principles & 51 Strategies

This Quick Reference / Best Practice Card for online discussions is adapted from “The Professor’s Manual,” by Victoria Nesnick, a Higher Education Faculty Development Consultant. The guide provides research-based guiding principles and strategies to help create and maintain effective presence and interaction between facilitators and participants as related to online discussion board participation. This resource…
Google Classroom

A classroom is a place where the knowledge transfer takes place. Usually a one-to-many interaction takes place in a classroom and different assessment tools are used at the end of every topic to evaluate the understanding levels of the students. All these activities which are carried out for centuries inside the physical classrooms are now…