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Rafter: Education Meets Technology

Leave a Comment Posted by on May 3, 2012
Rafter

Rafter

Rafter is a wonderful resource for any student that wants to learn, but cannot afford the rising expenses of education.

Ideally, education should be inexpensive and available to all, but sadly it is very expensive and most people feel the strain. It gets worse when students find it difficult to afford study material. That is because there are a few suppliers and they do not understand technology.

Schools need a true technology partner that reduces costs and uses technology for better services. It can be used by educators, mangers, retailers and everybody. Rafter is a service that aims to make education cheap and easily available. Read more of this post

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Gild: Online home for developers to share, build, exchange

Leave a Comment Posted by on November 10, 2011
Gild

Gild

Gild is a platform where developers from all around the world build, share, improve and compare their skills.

My programmer friends say that the best way to learn programming to through self-learning. Gild provides the perfect opportunity for geeks to share their skills with each other, learn and built computer programs.

Keeping in mind that technology changes quite fast, especially for software developers, Gild helps them be in the developers community where they can share news, tips and more about their specialization thereby keeping their knowledge up-to-date.

It is easy to create a profile on Gild. You just need to sign up using your Facebook or LinkedIn account. The profiles at Gild are based upon sophisticated science including skill tests, skills endorsements and real world validation. Because profiles at Gild are based on a developer’s abilities, it is very easy for other developers to know the stage of a developer’s growth.

Once your profile is up, developers from all around the world can interact with you, see your work profile and share their experiences. You can expand your network, improve your skills and talk to others who share the same passion.

On the other hand, having a large number of developers at the same place also means competitiveness. Healthy competitiveness will make developers enhance their skills and improve their craft, apart from, of course, the learning and asking help from your developer colleagues.

You can share your profile on Gild with friends on social networking sites, which can widen your existing network on Gild.

Gild was created to map the world’s talent so that students and professionals can earn opportunities based on merit.

The company has offices in California, India and China. It is backed by Globespan Capital Partners. The core value of the company is excellence, teamwork, leadership and meritocracy.

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Collaborize Classroom – A Free Online Learning Platform For Students And Teachers

1 Comment Posted by on February 9, 2011

Collaborize-Classroom-logoCollaborize Classroom is a wonderful innovative approach to help teachers to go beyond the boundaries of their physical classroom to interact with their students in an online collaborative learning environment. Collaborize Classroom offers a wide range of flexibilities for online discussion that are designed to support ground-breaking teaching and promotes higher level thinking skill to produce more powerful and innovative learning opportunities. Unlike other web based online education site, it offers great range of features making it a user friendly and easy to use educational broadcasting platform. This is a web-based application and thus does not need to be installed at you computer and can easily be access via personal URL from anywhere across the globe. The teacher student conversation is also very transparent, one can easily interact using various types of questions method including:

  • Multiple choice
  • Yes/No
  • Vote or Suggest
  • Forum

Some of the key features that we have identified are stated as follows:

  • Teacher can easily attach photo, videos, documents which in return the students can view directly
  • Teacher can send messages to his/her students via built in messaging service.
  • Teacher can view student participation report like number of logins, votes, comments, replies and many more to keep track of his/her student activities.
  • Custom build in search option for both teacher and student

It’s a wonderful site and we totally recommend it.

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Learningfy – Connects Teachers and Students Through Webcam Classes

1 Comment Posted by on January 29, 2011

Learningfy logoLearningfy is an online learning and teaching platform that allows students to get private tutor online and learn over Webcam classes. The idea behind the website is good enough and reduce geographical differences between students and teachers. It will also allow students to learn a wide variety of topics and skills remotely from teachers of different regions.

At Learningfy, a teacher can create $5 trial class of his/her choice. Then he can share his class with the world. If a prospective student find a teacher’s class interesting then he/she will order the class paying $5 fee. The class will take place on Webcam over the internet at a convenient time of both the teacher and the student. After the class, the student can submit his/her feedback or review about the instructor. When the class is successfully delivered, Learningfy will credit your balance with $4 and the teacher can withdraw the money using Paypal. After that initial success an instructor can create more customized classes on his/her own rates.

Learningfy provides SEO friendly teacher profile for each instructor where a teacher can highlight his/her expertise and publish his/her availability so that a prospective student can engage easily. Learningfy charges a flat rate of 20% for each class and price is always private between student and teacher to keep the competition low over price.

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