Top 10 Free Online Tutoring Tools for 2012. 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. Gchat Anyone with a gmail account can access Gchat . WizIQ Teachers, students and organizations can create free accounts on WizIQ , another online education portal. Jing. Teachers: Teaching resources from the BBC. 10 Sites. Every year in the course of writing this blog I look at and try out hundreds of new services that educators can use.
So it's not surprising that usually after I give a "best of the web" presentation at a school or conference people ask me which services I'm actually using in my classroom. The answer changes from semester to semester, but here are the ones my students and I are currently using. This list is in no particular order other than how I thought of them as I wrote out the list. 1. Posterous. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. There are other services and sites that my students and I will use this fall but the ten above are the ones that we will use most often. The Land of Me. Google.