Featured: 12-12-2013 Anki

Anki is a program which has been designed to make remembering things easier. Decrease the time spent studying, or increase the amount you learn.

People who need to remember things can benefit from Anki. It can be applied to study all kinds of content, supporting images, audio, videos, and LaTeX for science/mathematics.

Some possible uses for Anki might include language learning, studying for professional exams, memorizing names and faces, brushing up on geography, and more.

Features:

• The free AnkiWeb synchronization service keeps your cards in sync across multiple devices.
• Anki has a numerous options for customization, from card layout to review timing.
• Embed audio clips, images, videos and scientific markup on your cards, with precise control over how it's shown.
• Anki can handle decks of more than 100,000 cards.
• It's fully extensible with a large number of add-ons available.

 Watch an Ankitutorial

AnkiWeb is a free companion to the downloadable version of Anki and can be used to review online when you don't have access to your home computer.

Anki works on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, any device with a web browser.

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Featured: 12-11-2013 ExamTime

The aim of ExamTime is to change the way you learn, with more engagement, more understanding, and an enriched learning experience.

ExamTime provides free study tools that empower students to build best practices into their study habits:

• Goal setting
• Personal learning styles
• Comprehension techniques
• Brainstorming
• Practice & testing
• Collaborative learning

Intuitive and easy-to-use tools allow users to create, discover, and share engaging study resources such as mindmaps, flashcards, notes, and quizzes using ExamTime.

With ExamTime teachers can easily form learning groups to share resources and conduct discussions. The structure of groups simulates the organization of a real classroom online. Ask a question or share an article or study resource and let your students react, respond, and engage. 

Timetable tools let you drag-and-drop your subjects onto your calendar, setting up flexible and responsive schedules that allow you to make changes as needed. The goal setting feature allows you to mark important dates such as exams and assign tasks that need to be completed by due dates.

Any Mindmap or Note you create can be instantly turned into a presentation. Use the Mindmap tool for giving introductory presentations. Notes allow you to embed more media: videos, images, audio, links, even slideshows.

 See a video overview of ExamTime

ExamTime is a Web-app and can be accessed via the internet browser on any Android or iOS device.

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Featured: 2/12/2013 ProfessorWord [English]

ProfessorWord is a tool that can help you improve your vocabulary while you surf the web, with one-click definitions and highlights of SAT/ACT vocabulary words on any site.



Drag the free [Run ProfessorWord] bookmarklet button to your browser's bookmarks bar. Run ProfessorWord on any web page you're reading by clicking on the bookmarklet.

Now you can click any word to view its definition. You can also click words within the definition pop-ups. ProfessorWord automatically highlights all the SAT/ACT vocabulary words on the page.



Features for teachers:

• Find readings for your classroom by analyzing any website for text complexity and vocabulary words used.
• Search the database to find articles where words were used.
• Assign readings and track your students' progress, articles read, words looked up.

With a free ProfessorWord account, you can save 1000 words for up to 30 days to create printable personalized study lists. With a free teacher account, you'll be able to manage a group of student accounts.

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Featured: 12/10/2012 YourTeacher [Math]

YourTeacher presents thousands of online math lessons with your own personal math teacher, as well as a series of mathematics iBooks featuring a “teacher inside.”

YourTeacher is a digital publisher specializing in middle school, high school, and college level math. YourTeacher.com, a subscription website, has provided math tutoring, standardized test prep, and homeschooling to hundreds of thousands of students.

YourTeacher is trying to bring a systemic change to the textbook industry with patent-pending math iBooks. Unlike traditional textbooks, YourTeacher's iBooks textbooks have a personal math teacher built in, ready to provide instruction for any student at any time.

Search for lessons by keyword or by textbook. YourTeacher offers thousands of math homework help lessons aligned to the textbooks from Glencoe, McGraw-Hill, McDougal Littell, Prentice Hall, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Addison-Wesley, Saxon, and more.

Mike Maggart, the founder of YourTeacher, was a high school math teacher who recognized the need for a new way of delivering math instruction using technology to replicate the private school math classroom experience for any student, anywhere, and anytime.

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YourTeacher also offers test prep for the SAT, ACT, GRE, GED, and many more standardized tests.

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COD - 1/31/2012 - Grockit [Test prep]

Grockit is an online test prep service for students planning on taking the GMAT, SAT, ACT, GRE, or other tests required for college admissions.

Grockit offers a social, collaborative, and personal learning platform. Its adaptive learning algorithms and up-front analysis identify and adjust for individual learning strengths and weaknesses.

Grockit.TV includes hundreds of hours of content featuring real teachers demonstrating problem solving techniques that can be applied to your study plan.

Grockit has helped more than a million people worldwide successfully prepare for tests. Grockit study plans provide practice tests, personalized insight into your weak subject areas, reviews of your work, and even a tutor to help you.

Watch a video overview of Grockit

Grockit, headquartered in San Francisco, was founded in 2007, by Farb Nivi, a former Teacher of the Year for The Princeton Review and academic director at Kaplan.

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Catch of the Day - B Line Test Prep - 7/28/2011

B Line Test Prep offers students preparing to take the GMAT or SAT self-paced prep courses for free.

B Line Test Prep courses allow students to identify and focus on the questions and key concepts with which they are struggling. Students can also view animated solutions illustrating the steps needed to answer questions, explained in detail by experienced tutors.

Some features of B Line Test Prep:

• Eight full-length, timed practice tests
• Review sections
• More than 1200 vocabulary words
• Animated and narrated feedback
• Article library

The objective of B Line Test Prep is to make available to students "all of the necessary information, material, resources and services necessary to help them achieve their desired results." B Line Test Prep promises students the most up-to-date and reliable information possible, in an easy-to-use format.

B Line Test Prep is available 24 hours a day everyday.

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Catch of the Day - Number2.com - 5/11/2011

 

Number2.com offers students and teachers access to free comprehensive online test prep for the SAT, ACT, and GRE.

Students can create a Number2.com account to access a customized course that includes user-friendly tutorials, practice sessions that dynamically adapt to the student's ability level, a vocabulary builder, and more.

If you are a teacher, tutor, or parent, Number2.com can be very useful for you as well.

• Number2.com has developed a large library of free questions, vocabulary drills, and interactive tutorials you can share with your student or child.
• You can also use the Number2.com coaching system to link to students' accounts. Get updates on their performance and know if they're making good progress through the prep materials. The site is more personally adaptive than a book and implementing the coaching relationship provides the opportunity for extra support and motivation.

 

Number2.com was founded by professors and graduate students who wanted to make good test preparation widely and easily accessible to everyone. Over 2 million students have enrolled in Number2.com's online courses since 2000, and the website now gets over 50 million hits per month. Number2.com earns funding from sponsorships and licensing.

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