Scrible Releases a New Chrome Extension to Help Students Organize Their Research

Scrible  is a free service offering a nice set of tools for highlighting, annotating, and bookmarking webpages. Recently, Scrible released a...

SummarizeThis Quickly Summarizes Long Passages of Text

SummarizeThis is a free tool that summarizes the main point(s) of long articles that you find on the web. To use SummarizeThis you just cop...

Scrible - Bookmark, Annotate, and Create Bibliographies

Scrible is a free service offering a nice set of tools for highlighting, annotating, and bookmarking webpages. Scrible offers browser boo...

Use Edcanvas to Organize and Share Educational Materials

Edcanvas is a free service that makes it easy for teachers to organize and share educational materials in a visually pleasing format. The ...

Rutgers Riot Animated Research Tutorial

Rutgers' Riot is an animated research tutorial. It plays like a five part animated movie. Each part of the movie features characters ex...

Become a Google Power Searcher This Fall

This summer Google offered a MOOC titled Power Searching With Google . More than 150,000 people registered for the course ( completion rate ...

InstaGrok - A New Way to Search and Pin Information

instaGrok is a very promising new search service that I learned about from Joyce Valenza during my time at Discovery's Beyond the Text...

How to Cite a Tweet (MLA Style)

This has been bouncing all over the web for weeks now, but I first saw it Tweeted by Joyce Valenza so I'm going to credit her. If you...

Bundlenut - Bundle the Web and Send it to Friends

Bundlenut is a simple service for organizing a set of links and sharing them with others. To use the service just visit Bundlenut and start...

Three Tools Students Can Use To Collaboratively Organize Online Research

One of the challenges that I always give to students when they work on collaborative research projects is to "go deeper than you would ...

Shelfster - A New Tool for Organizing Research

Shelfster is a new research and writing tool that I learned about from Vicki Davis earlier this week before trying it out myself this afte...

Read Cube - A Desktop Tool for Organizing Research

Read Cube is a desktop application, for Windows and Mac, that is designed to help students organize their research. Read Cube provides a pl...

Map Fast - Find Books About Places via Google Maps

mapFAST is a great use of Google Maps for finding texts about places all over the world. Visit mapFAST, type in a location and mapFAST will...

Royal Society Journal Archives Made Available Online

Royal Society Publishing recently announced that it has made the archives of its journals available online for the world to search and read...

How To Do Research - An Interactive Map

One of the challenges that every student faces at one time or another is conducting focused and efficient research. The folks at the Kentuck...

Discover Books to Match the Websites You Read

Book Discovery is a browser extension that helps you find books that are related to the content of the websites you read. With Book Discove...

Wiki Summarizer Outlines Wikipedia

Wiki Summarizer is a site that allows you to search Wikipedia, have articles summarized by key points, and provides lists of articles that ...

Wow! Qwiki is Engaging

In the last 48 hours since they opened up to the world, I've had numerous people tell me that I had to check out Qwiki . I finally did c...

Kippt - Share Bookmarks Across Devices and Networks

Kippt is a free service designed to enable sharing of bookmarks and notes between devices and social networks. On your computer and on your...

Cite PDFs and More with iCyte

iCyte is an online bookmark and annotation tool that I've previously reviewed here and recently learned of about some features of iCyt...