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==[|100 Helpful Web Tools for Every Kind of Learner] By Christina Luan == This article can be found at: [|College@Home] Mind Mapping Get your ideas charted out in a visual format with these easy-to-use online brainstorming and organizational tools. Charting and Diagrams Love to put information into charts and diagrams? These tools can help you do that. Videos and Photos Find everything you’ll need to learn through videos and pictures with these tools.
 * 1) [|Bubbl.us]: This flash-based mind mapping tools allows you to chart out your thoughts in a colorful format, share them with friends or embed them in blogs, websites and emails.
 * 2) [|Free Mind]: Mind mapping is easy and free with this Java tool. You’ll be able to manage your notes, lay out a paper and more completely online.
 * 3) [|WiseMapping]: You can access your mind maps from anywhere with this online tool. You can lay out words, pictures, ideas and more easily with WiseMapping.
 * 4) [|Mindomo]: Premium versions of this mind mapping tool come at a cost, but you can get access to the basic version for free. It allows you to add links, pictures and text to mind maps and share them over the net.
 * 5) [|DeepMehta]: This mind mapping tool is built around the idea of knowledge management and cognitive psychology. The open source tool allows sharing, emailing and even contains an embedded calendar.
 * 6) [|MindMeister]: Collaborate with your classmates on mind maps with this great online tool. The basic version is free and comes complete with the ability to create, share, import and export maps.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Mind42]: The name of this tool represents "for two", and is indicative of the collaborative nature of this mapping tool. It can make it easy to keep track of your ideas, share them with friends and teachers and take them with you no matter where you are.
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|RecallPlus]: Students can organize their notes, create flashcards, make use of 3D tools and more in this great mind mapping tool.
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Mapul]: This mind mapping program has basic and premium levels and allows users to map not only text but images and hyperlinks as well.
 * 10) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|DebateMapper]: If you’re struggling to understand a debate for your classes try creating a [|visual] representation with this great mapping tool.
 * 11) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|CMapTools]: CMapTools is free for students to use and allows them to create and share all kinds of knowledge maps.
 * 12) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Thinkature]: This site allows real-time collaboration on flow charts, diagrams and mind maps with features that include color organization and freehand drawing.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Gliffy]: Gliffy makes it easy to lay out ideas in flow charts and diagrams or to create floor plans and technical drawings to help you better [|visually understand] information.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|FlowChart]: Create great flow charts for your classes using this online tool, which comes complete with drawing tools and objects as well as collaborative tools.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|DrawAnywhere]: This online program allows you to create diagrams and flow charts to represent all kinds of information. Best of all, you can log in from anywhere to get access to your diagrams.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|AjaxSketch]: This web-based drawing tool makes it easy to not only create flow charts and diagrams but to do freehand drawing as well and you can use it right from Firefox.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|XML/SWF Charts]: Those familiar with XML will be able to turn their data into colorful and useful charts with this downloadable tool.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|yEd]: Is a very powerful graph editor and creation tool that can be used to quickly and effectively generate drawings and to create easily read and laid out graphs and diagrams.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Graphviz]: If you’ve got a lot of information about the structure of a website or anything else for that matter, this tool can help you to easy map it out into a graph or network.
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Kivio]: Kivio easy to use diagramming and flowcharting application that is part of the KOffice suite of programs. It comes with features to network diagrams, create organization charts, build flowcharts and more.
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Project Draw]: This program is a feature-rich web-based vector drawing application that will allow you to create diagrams and graphs of any kind of information as well as making a variety of other kinds of drawings.
 * 10) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Best 4C]: This Web-based tool allows you to create and share charts from anywhere, making it easier than ever to diagram and draw your ideas.
 * 11) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|LovelyCharts]: Charts created through this tool really can be lovely with full color capabilities and loads of graphics.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Google Video]: Google Video is chock full of educational videos that can help explain everything from how to use Second Life to learn to explanations of psychological illnesses.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|YouTube College]: Sign up with your individual college and share videos with fellow students on this College-based version of YouTube. You can post your own visual notes and slides or look at those of others.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Picasa]: Picasa is Google’s answer to photo sharing and you can upload images from an art history or anatomy class and study them from anywhere on the Web.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Flickr]: This social networking and photo posting site can be a great way to share images from a class with your classmates or look for images to back up your notes.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Scooch]: Scooch is a Web-based slide show program that will allow you to post photos and make slide shows that you can share with others over the Web.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Perseus Digital Library]: In need of visual representations of manuscripts or sculptures from ancient Rome and Greece? You can find tens of thousands on this online library and database.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Teachertube]: Teachertube is a great place to find instructional videos on just about everything. You can learn about the formation of mountains, world history and economics on this useful educational site.
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Screencast-o-Matic]: Create a video or photo of your screen with this helpful online tool. It can be a great way to remember how to do tasks on the computer or just to share images online.
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Jing Project]: This tool allows you to snap a photo of your desktop, make recordings of your activities and email or IM them to anyone.
 * 10) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Visuwords]: Text dictionaries don’t always give visual learners the explanations they need. This dictionary is graphically based, making it easy to see what concepts or ideas are represented.
 * 11) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|KartOO]: Along those same lines, Kartoo is a visual search engine, giving you results laid out in a networked chart so it’s easy to see how topics relate.
 * 12) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Mixbook] : Create collabroative online photo books that can be shared and printed. There is a feature for educators that allows students the opportunity to create books together.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Auditory Learners]
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Auditory learners do best in classes where listening is a main concern. These learners prefer verbal lectures and discussions. Auditory learners can get a leg up on their learning with these Web tools. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Podcasts <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Get all kind of supplementary education materials through these great podcast tools. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Presentation Tools <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Put your notes or classroom information into an audio format with these handy apps. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Audio Tools <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Listen and edit your sounds and music with these tools. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Text Readers <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Understand material better when it’s [|read out loud]? These Web tools can do that for you. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Audio Books <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Those who have trouble retaining information from printed words can listen to their assigned reading instead with help from these sites.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|ProfCasts]: Turn a PowerPoint presentation into a useful and portable podcast using this tool. It can be a great way to put class materials into a format you can bring with you anywhere.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Moodle]: Post and share podcasts with an interactive online community using Moodle. You can not only post your own podcasts but get access to those of others that could provide educational value to you.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|First Class]: This collaboration and communication software offers a podcast publishing feature that can be great for educational purposes.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Podomatic]: Find, share and publish your podcasts through Podomatic. You can search for existing podcasts that may cover topics you’re researching or that are relevant to your classes.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Podcast.net]: Podcast.net provides a huge listing of podcasts from all over the Web. You’ll be able to find just about anything you need in an easy, audio format.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Educational Podcast Network]: Narrow your search for podcasts down to those dedicated to education. You can learn about everything from math to dance right on your iPod.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|PoducateMe]: Don’t know the first thing about podcasting or how you can use it to make education a little easier? This site has all the information you need.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Thumbstacks]: Thumbstacks allows users to create a web-based presentation or slide show and then share it with others.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|SlideShare]: This site takes more of a networked approach to creating presentations allowing you to post your presentations and browse those of other users.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Empressr]: You can access your organized class materials or projects from anywhere with this tool and share them with friends and other classmates easily.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|ThinkFree Show]: If you are using PowerPoint to organize your class notes into a more visual and audio conducive format then you can take advantage of this site which makes it easy to take them to the Web.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|AuthorStream]: Another PowerPoint centered program, AuthorStream makes it simple to upload and share your presentations.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Toufee]: If Flash is more your style you can use this online tool which gives you the tools needed to publish and play flash presentations and movies.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|//PhotoStory 3//]: Make your slides for class a little more interesting with this free program from Microsoft. You can add special effects or your own voice narration.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Jamglue]: Mix and edit your audio clips with this online tool and when you’re done, share the finished product with other online visitors in a YouTube like format.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|//Audacity//]: One of the most popular free audio editors out there, audacity is multi-featured and allows users to record and edit in all kinds of formats.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Wave Surfer]: Visualize and manipulate sounds with this free and customizable tool.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Looplab]: Create and manipulate short loops and phrases with this great sound editing tool.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|//LAME//]: This open source tool makes it easy to encode and manipulate MP3s.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|//Adobe Acrobat Reader//]: You may not know this, but Adobe Reader has a feature that will allow the contents of the document to be read out loud. It can be a great way for the more auditorially inclined to get through readings.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Read Please]: Cut and paste text or type it directly into the input form on this site and the program will read it to you. It can be a very useful tool for making sure essays and projects are written correctly.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Text Reader]: Here you’ll find a tool that will give you audio for any text you feed into it.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Expressivo]: This simple text reader will give you a variety of audio readings when you paste or type text into the entry form.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Midomi]: While not quite a text reader, this tool couldn’t be left out of this list. It’s a search engine that is based on sound rather than text. It can be a more intuitive way to find things if you respond better to sounds.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|LibriVox]: This site provides free audiobooks for books in the public domain and has numerous titles. If you don’t find what you want, see if you can volunteer to create a recording of the book yourself.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|History and Politics Out Loud]: Here you’ll find speeches, historical information and more in an audio format, making it easier to take in and absorb for the auditory learner.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Audible]: This subscription site allows visitors to download from thousands of audio books, both best sellers and classics making it easy to find what you need for class.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Project Gutenburg]: Books that are no longer under copyright can be found here and there is a special section for audio books, both read by computers and by humans.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Free Books.org]: If your class is reading an older text you may be able to find a free version of it to listen to on this site. It contains recordings of numerous out of copyright books.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Kinesthetic Learners
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Kinesthetic learners do best when they interact and touch things]. They prefer a hands-on approach to [|learning] and enjoy interacting with classroom materials and those around them. These tools can help keep these inquisitive learners busy. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Note Taking Tools <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">No matter what you’re reading or watching you can make it more interactive by taking notes and these tools can help. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Bookmarking <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mark references for later while you’re researching with these tools. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Interaction <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Get involved with the material with these online applications. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Collaboration <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">These chatting and networking tools can make it easy to interact with classmates and friends.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|MyNoteIT]: This great tool allows students to take and store their notes online, edit them with the help of classmates, look up words or terms you don’t understand and keep track of things you need to do.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Google Docs]: With this program from Google you can take notes online, save them, and even send them to your peers for collaboration.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Notely]: Keep your class notes, to-do lists and more organized and easy to access with this site.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|NoteMesh]: This site allows students from the same class to share notes by creating a wiki, making it easy and practical to work together.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Stu.dicio.us]: Here, students are able to actively organize their class materials, take and store notes, share information and even link to online reference sites.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|ShortText]: This is a very simple tool for taking notes online. Simply enter your text, hit save, and you’ve got an online note you can revisit anytime you like.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|YourDraft]: Take notes with this rich text editor and share and save them online.
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|SyncNotes]: If you use a PDA this can be a great way to keep your notes accessible on both your main computer and your portable device.
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|//JotCloud//]: If you’re the type that loves to put sticky notes all over everything then you’ll enjoy this online note taking tool. It allows you to create clouds of stickies anywhere you need them.
 * 10) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|NoteCentric]: Store and share your classroom notes with this innovative site. It keeps your notes organized so you can reference them later and you can easily access it through a Facebook account.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|del.icio.us]: This online tool makes it easy to mark sites you find interesting to use for later research or to send to friends and project partners.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Clipmarks]: Don’t waste time searching through webpages you’ve already read to find the content you needed. Instead, clip it out this this tool. You can clip and email bits to yourself as you go making online research more active.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Wizlite]: Don’t just save online material for later, highlight and tag it just like you would a real book with this great online tool.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|i-Lighter]: Help make online reading a little more hands on with this highlighting program. It allows you to mark parts of online text you found interesting or want to revisit later.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Web-Chops]: Web-Chops allows you to clip out any part of a webpage then save and share these clips. It can be a great way to [|study for tests] or prepare for papers in a more interactive fashion.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Furl]: This social bookmarking site makes it easy to keep track of webpages you were interested in, share them with classmates and keep them organized for research.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Ma.gnolia]: Search through sites others have bookmarked as interesting or use the site to highlight your own information from the Web and keep it in an easy to find place.
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Blinklist]: Make lists of sites that are relevant to whatever you’re working on with Blinklist. If you have a blog, you can even have the links appear automatically on it, making them super easy to access later.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Flash Card Machine]: This site allows you to create web-based flash cards to study the information you have for class using text and pictures.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Quia]: With Quia, you’ll be able to create your own online quizzes and educational games to help you study your materials in a more interactive fashion.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Quizlet]: Quizlet makes it easy to study things like vocabulary words with it’s online study tools. You can make quizzes, use your friend’s or browse existing flashcards on the site.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Pauker]: This open source program will test your short and long term memory with a system that makes it easy to create and reuse flashcards and quizzes.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Learner.org Interactives]: Need a more interactive explanation of a concept from class? You’ll find dozens of educational ones here that can help explain geology, chemistry, [|math] and more.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Meebo]: This website allows students to IM from anywhere, even computers without the software installations for major programs like AIM, Yahoo!, MSN and more.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Campfire]: Here students can create password protected chat rooms to discuss their assignments, collaborate on projects or just chat. Best of all, you won’t need to install a thing.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|CollegeRuled]: Students can set up class message boards, create to-do lists and interact with classmates on this site.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Campusbug]: This site provides a social learning network where students can interact and chat with each other while asking questions and getting answers about class materials.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Facebook]: One of the most popular social network sites for students, Facebook provides a place where classmates can come together to chat about assignments, keep up with their lives and post links to sites, videos and photos.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Backpack]: Backpack allows students to organize their notes, to-do lists and calendars while sharing information and working with classmates.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|The Campus Center]: Students can get together and network on this site and also have access to note taking and spreadsheet programs.
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|JotSpot]: Working in a group just became easier with this online wiki tool that allows students to share notes, project ideas and information in an easily accessible format.
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|WebBrush]: Collaborate in a fun and creative way with this tool that lets students send drawings and graphics to one another.
 * 10) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Grouptivity]: This site allows students to use email to start a group discussion about class projects and assignments or just to complain about their professors.

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