eLearning Tools

"The free, open-source interactive digital teaching software"

Soap Box is a new service that enables teachers to gather instant feedback from students through their cell phones, tablets, or laptops. Soap Box offers nine useful functions for teachers and students. One of the features that grabbed my attention is the "confusion barometer" that allows students to state their status as either "I get it" or "I'm confused." Two other features that jumped out at me are the "smart filter" and the "profanity filter." The smart filter searches for similar questions in the backchannel to avoid duplicates. The profanity filter blocks inappropriate language from being posted in the backchannel.

This WebApp provides a simple way to merge PDF files. You can either select the files you want to merge from you computer or drop them on the app using drag and drop. After that use drag and drop to bring the files in the desired order. The resulting merged PDF file will contain all Documents in the order as they appear on the screen. When done, press merge to initiate merging.

Wordfaire is a new service for quickly creating and updating a live blog. To use Wordfaire just sign-in with your Twitter, Facebook, or Google account. Once you've signed-in just choose a url and name for your blog  then you can start blogging. Wordfaire updates as soon as you stop typing and hit "update." People viewing your blog will see your updates as soon as you press "update."

pen.io is a simple blogging service that you can start using in a minute or less. to use pen.io just head to the site, name your page, and select a password for editing. once you've done those things you can start blogging. to edit your page just click on any of the predefined text and start typing. to add more pages just type the the ":page" tag, to insert videos just type the ":video" tag. one short-coming that pen.io has is that it doesn't support

Scriffon is a simple service for writing and publishing online. Scriffon isn't a blogging platform, it's a writing platform. That means that you cannot edit the layout or navigation on the page on which your writing is published. Each writing that you publish is given it's own url. You can go back and edit your writing even after it has been published. If you want to you can use multiple pen names under your Scriffon account name too.

Upload your documents, publish as professional publications. Embed into any webpage.

Upload all major formats and convert them instantly in digital publications.

Make your pdf documents flippable and quickly loading. It is like touching a real document. Can embed into any website. Just upload Pdf, and your book is made.

Booktrack is a movie-style soundtrack for eBooks

Pearltrees is a service that combines social bookmarking with mind-mapping. Using Pearltrees you can bookmark websites and arrange your bookmarks into webs or mind-maps of related topics

If you're looking for a fast and responsive mind mapping tool for your students to use when they plan a project or diagram a concept, give Slatebox a try. Or if you just want to create organization templates for your students to use offline, you can use Slatebox for that too. Create your template, download it as an image, and print it out.

Create time lapse videos

Zinepal creates PDFs and eBooks in the ePub, Kindle and Mobipocket formats. It's one of the easiest ways to make printable PDFs and eBooks from existing web content in order to reach additional audiences and offer readers more choices.

TubeChop-  http://tubechop.com TubeChop lets you select a portion from a YouTube video to share.

With Ge.tt, you can select files  or can drag and drop them onto the site (if you have a supported browser), and then share the shortened URL like the other apps in this list, but a cool feature is that you don't have to wait for your file to finish uploading before users download them.