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Vineet Madan is Vice President of McGraw-Hill Higher Education eLabs, which works with colleges and universities, professors and students along with technology partners to develop innovative, cutting-edge digital educational tools to improve the way instructors teach and students learn.

et everybody on the same page, when they're not in the same room, instantly. Review documents and designs. Train staff. Demo products or just show off. join.me is a ridiculously simple screen sharing tool for meetings on the fly.

Qiqqa is a document management program built from the ground up for academics, making it a must-have tool for students and professors everywhere.

Namesake, is a tool for real-time and asynchronous conversations.  It's a bit like Quora but more focused on conversation as compared to Q&A and it allows real-time conversation a bit like twitter. 

If you are looking for a better tool to archive web pages, one that saves everything and doesn't mess with the formatting, check out bo.lt. Just put the URL of any web page, hit the Copy button (or use the bookmarklet) and, within few seconds, an exact replica of the original page will get saved to your online account.

Choose one or two documents to quickly engage students, focus classroom activity, and spark conversations. Pick from one of five modes - Discussion Topic, Spotlight, Zoom/Crop, Compare and Contrast, or White out/Black out - to frame documents and guide students as they analyze, focus on specific content, examine document details, and form hypotheses.

"Combine video clips, add text, and share your custom message via email, facebook, twitter and mobile text. SnapCuts is a place to create, communicate, and share your thoughts with video."

MentorMob is an attempt to organize learning into relevant chunks i.e. playlists. Learning playlists are created by the community of users, and this collaboration it is hoped will lead to quality. As each playlist is rated by the community, the good ones will come to the surface.

"The New Hive makes it easy for you to express yourself online. Whether it's a journal, collection of recipes, portfolio or flyer, it's fun and easy to create and update all of your media and ideas in one ad-free space. Decide what you want to share to the community, the world and all your social media sites. What's your vision to change the world?"

If you are one of those people who need to convert their websites to HTML5 format quickly and effectively, then you might want to give Eenox a try.

"Welcome to Piazza-a place where students can come together to ask, answer, and explore under the guidance of their instructor. It'll save you time, and your students will love using it. It's also free, and easy to get started."

Infuse Learning is a free student response system that works with any Internet-connected device including iPads and Android tablets. Infuse Learning allows teachers to push questions, prompts, and quizzes out to students' devices in private virtual classrooms. In an Infuse Learning room a teacher can give students a wide variety of formats in which to response to a question or prompt. Students can reply to prompts and questions in standard multiple choice, true/false, and short answer formats. But Infuse Learning also offers an option for students to reply by creating drawings or diagrams on their iPads, Android tablets, or on their laptops.

If you care about Internet search, this is a good blog: "Internet News is written by Gwen Harris as a current awareness service for people wishing to stay abreast with developments affecting web searching. It is a companion to the Websearchguide tutorials and the online courses Gwen teaches."

I noticed a link to cogdogblog.com on December 10, too...

Every social network has its own widget for blogs and websites but there are hardly any widgets which combines feeds from multiple social networks. Thanks to Zooshia, you can now create a customized widget which will show updates from up to 10 Facebook, Twitter or YouTube account feeds.

If you have a website and you don't have an icon, then Generate Favicon is exactly what you are looking for. They make it quick and easy to generate an icon for your website.

Have you ever wanted a way to create a survey that looks a lot nicer and more professional than just some text on a webpage? If you have, than you should check out Survey Legend, where you can make beautiful surveys with just a few clicks.

While creating your website you probably targeted computer users, overlooking cellphone users. Today many people access the web through their smartphones and might not find your site's layout suitable to their device. To make your site mobile friendly free of charge, pay Onbile a visit.

  DropItTo - is a great utility for saving and transferring files and DropItTo makes it even better. Using DropItTo, you can create your personal web-based utility that anybody can use to send you a file. Once you register, you get a unique URL like www.dropitto.me/abc. Anybody who needs to send you a file can then go to the URL and upload the file. The file will be directly uploaded to your Dropbox account and be easily accessible.