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• 100 Helpful Web Tools for Every Kind of Learner
• 100 Helpful Web Tools for Every Kind of Learner
• For those unfamiliar with the term, a learning style is a way in which an individual approaches learning. Many people understand material much better when it is presented in one format, for example a lab experiment, than when it is presented in another, like an audio presentation. Determining how you best learn and using materials that cater to this style can be a great way to make school and the entire process of acquiring new information easier and much more intuitive. Here are some great tools that you can use to cater to your individual learning style, no matter what that is.
• For those unfamiliar with the term, a learning style is a way in which an individual approaches learning. Many people understand material much better when it is presented in one format, for example a lab experiment, than when it is presented in another, like an audio presentation. Determining how you best learn and using materials that cater to this style can be a great way to make school and the entire process of acquiring new information easier and much more intuitive. Here are some great tools that you can use to cater to your individual learning style, no matter what that is.
• For those unfamiliar with the term, a learning style is a way in which an individual approaches learning. Many people understand material much better when it is presented in one format, for example a lab experiment, than when it is presented in another, like an audio presentation. Determining how you best learn and using materials that cater to this style can be a great way to make school and the entire process of acquiring new information easier and much more intuitive. Here are some great tools that you can use to cater to your individual learning style, no matter what that is.
• Determining how you best learn and using materials that cater to this style can be a great way to make school and the entire process of acquiring new information easier and much more intuitive. Here are some great tools that you can use to cater to your individual learning style, no matter what that is.
• Visual Learners
• Visual learners learn through seeing and retain more information when it’s
  presented in the form of pictures, diagrams, visual presentations,
  textbooks, handouts and videos
• Visual learners learn through seeing and retain more information when it’s presented in the form of pictures, diagrams, visual presentations, textbooks, handouts and videos.
• Mind Mapping

• Mind Mapping

  
  

  Get your ideas charted out in a visual format with these easy-to-use online brainstorming and organizational tools.

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• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Charting and Diagrams

• Charting and Diagrams

  
  

  Love to put information into charts and diagrams? These tools can help you do that.

• 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.
• 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.
• Graphviz: If you’ve got a lot of information about the structure of a website or anything
• Videos and Photos
• 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.

• Videos and Photos

  
  

  Find everything you’ll need to learn through videos and pictures with these tools.

  
  

  
  
• 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.
• 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.
• Auditory Learners
• Podcasts
• Auditory learners do best in classes where listening is a main concern. These
  learners prefer verbal lectures and discussions.

• Auditory Learners

  
  

  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.

• Podcasts

  
  

  Get all kind of supplementary education materials through these great podcast tools.

• 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.
• Educational Podcast Network: Narrow your search for podcasts down to those dedicated to education
• Presentation Tools
• Put your notes or classroom information into an audio format with these handy apps.

• Presentation Tools

  
  

  Put your notes or classroom information into an audio format with these handy apps.

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• Audio Tools
• 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.
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• Audio Tools

  
  

  Listen and edit your sounds and music with these tools.

• Text Readers
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
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• LAME: This open source tool makes it easy to encode and manipulate MP3s.
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• Text Readers

  
  

  Understand material better when it’s read out loud? These Web tools can do that for you.

• Audio Books
• • 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.
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• LibriVox: This site provides free audiobooks for books in the public domain and has numerous titles.
• 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.

• Audio Books

  
  

  Those who have trouble retaining information from printed words can listen to their assigned reading instead with help from these sites.

• Kinesthetic Learners
• Note Taking Tools
• 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.
• • Google Docs: With this program from Google you can take notes online, save them, and even send them to your peers for collaboration.
• 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.

• Kinesthetic Learners

  
  

  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.

• Bookmarking
• 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.
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    Diigo is another good tool for this. Diigo has a sticky note/floating note option, a highlighting option and is a great social bookmarking tool.
• 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.
• 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.
• Bookmarking
• Mark references for later while you’re researching with these tools.
• Don’t just save online material for later, highlight and tag it just like you would a real book with this great online tool.
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    Again Diigo has this same functionality. It is a better tool for these task.

• Bookmarking

  
  

  Mark references for later while you’re researching with these tools.

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• 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.
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    Diigo has the same functionality as I-Lighter. It can use twitter and it has the added feature of viewing cached sites offline.
• Interaction
• • 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.
• Collaboration
• Meebo: This website allows students to IM from anywhere, even computers without the software installations for major programs like AIM, Yahoo!, MSN and more.

• Interaction

  
  

  Get involved with the material with these online applications.

• These chatting and networking tools can make it easy to interact with classmates and friends.
• 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.
• Backpack: Backpack allows students to organize their notes, to-do lists and calendars while sharing information and working with classmates.

• Collaboration

  
  

  These chatting and networking tools can make it easy to interact with classmates and friends.

• • 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.