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Top 10 Free Online Tutoring Tools for 2012 Topics: education, free tools, guest, technology, technology for tutoring, tutoring resources, tutoring tools inShare Share 462 The Internet provides a wealth of resources for teachers, tutors, and students to go well beyond classroom learning. Whether you're a teacher preparing for tomorrow's lecture, a professional tutor working with one or two students, or you just want to help your cousin in Alabama with some trig homework, these free tools will help you interact with your student(s) sans the confines of the classroom. Skype with Idroo Idroo is an online educational whiteboard used in combination with Skype. Use it with as many students or fellow teachers as you want for tutoring sessions or meetings, as the whiteboard's "only limitations" are Internet connection speed and how fast everyone involved absorbs the material. All writing and drawing done on the whiteboard is visible to participants in real time, making it a true virtual classroom. It also allows for remote math tutoring with its professional math typing tool. Gchat Anyone with a gmail account can access Gchat. Teachers, tutors, and students can talk to one another in real time, as well as send and receive files instantly. Save chats for referral purposes in your gmail account, or download the Google Talk application for voice conferencing with multiple parties. WizIQ Teachers, students and organizations can create free accounts on WizIQ, another online education portal. Students have the option to attend online classes, download free tutorials, use free practice tests, or find teachers with certain expertise. Online classes are not free, however. Teachers and organizations can offer recorded classes through WizIQ or those in real time, create online tests, use live audio and video chat, and distribute course work in any standard format. Teachers must pay per month for this service, though WizIQ offers easy teacher payment collection from stu

A beautifully designed set of 20+ maths whiteboard resources aimed at primary aged students. There are resources about addition, multiplying fractions, number lines and more. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

A beautifully made area/perimeter whiteboard resource. Move the corners around to change the numbers. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

A useful whiteboard resource displaying the date and weather in French. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Languages,+Culture+&+International+Projects

"This blog is all about cool tools to use in the classroom. Sam's cool tools gives examples of different tools to use on the interactive whiteboard, laptop, ipod/ipad, and other classroom technologies."

This blog is all about cool tools to use in the classroom. Sam's cool tools gives examples of different tools to use on the interactive whiteboard, laptop, ipod/ipad, and other classroom technologies.

A good whiteboard resource for practising the four operations. Choose from two difficulty levels and to practise mixed or a single operation. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/maths

A great division/multiplication flash based whiteboard resource where users arrange numbers and signs in the right order. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

A great maths whiteboard resource for learning about column subtraction. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

A useful flash fractions activity. You can either read fractions or make equivalents. A good resource for whiteboards. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

A great virtual place value card resource for whiteboards. Enter the number you want and see deans apparatus for each. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

A nice maths whiteboard resource where users make flag with fractions of colours. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

A great maths bingo whiteboard game. Work out the questions to find the bingo number. Download the Bingo slips from http://www.teacherled.com/resources/bingo/bingobooks.pdf http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

A great resource for learning times tables. Use on a whiteboard or set as online home/class work to learn times tables. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

A useful fraction tool for your whiteboard. Show virtual fraction tiles to your class to aim their understanding of the relative size of the fraction. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

A fun and useful area and perimeter 2D shape tutorial and interactive activities for you whiteboard. Learn how to find the area and perimeter of rectangles and triangles and then complete the questions. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

An online virtual musical keyboard that can be played with your computer keyboard or a mouse. So you're not going to be able to play much Chopin on this, but it's fun and the keyboard appears large on a whiteboard and is useful for showing some basics. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music,+Sound+&+Podcasts

A great NASA site where you can find over 100 resources to bring outer space into your classroom. Some of the resources are for your whiteboard, others can be downloaded and printed. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science

This is a wonderful resource for teaching the area of 2D shapes. Move and resize the shapes to change the values. It's a great resource to use on an interactive whiteboard. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

An extensive literacy site with hundreds of resources to download and use on whiteboards. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

A nice flash whiteboard resource where users are given a multiplication question to answer by dragging along a numberline. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/maths