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Great Tools for Teachers and Students
Foreword
Besides using free resources to help develop learning material and other related educational content, you may also want to share information and details with your students on the actual tools you're using. In many cases, the tools you use to help you teach, they can use to help them learn.

Here are two in that category.
 

Muchobeets
http://www.muchobeets.com
Excellent study tools that they are, it's a shame teachers aren't able to give every single one of their students a set of flashcards whenever they need to memorize or even just learn a whole bunch of information. There's the cost thing, of course. And production time. Relying on the students themselves to build their own flashcards using material you provide? Yeah, right.

It isn't perfect, but Muchobeets goes a long way towards helping reach this "flashcards for every student" utopia. It very easily lets you create virtual flashcard sets (both "definition" and "regular info" types) that will then be hosted and accessed by students through their site.

You can add to existing card sets, but you can't seem to edit any entries. It also doesn't seem to let you sort your cards, or have the cards presented to you randomly when you're studying or "quizzing" yourself.

Who knows, maybe the developers will add those features in the future. It currently does a good enough job, however. Probably the best part is that students, once exposed to this free tool, will realize how helpful flashcards are and, with Muchobeets, how easy it'll be for them to create them for their own use!

Go to Muchobeets
 

eBookhood
http://ebookhood.com
Nowadays, what kid doesn't have an iPod or one of its ilk? I know some schools have banned them from school grounds, which just means the kids at those schools just learn to hide their iPods from view better.

eBookhood is a free online service that lets you convert text, webpages, even RSS feeds to formats that are readable on Apple iPods and other portable "reading" devices.

Now is that cool or what? If I knew every kid in my class had an iPod, I'd seriously consider giving out notes, handouts, info, etc., in that format. When in Rome, blah blah blah...

Besides, showing the kids this neat free resource may actually help them figure out ways to put those iPods to better use!

Go to eBookhood