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I have attended many lectures half asleep back in the university days and I can bet that many others have done the same. The reason is plain and simple, the classes were boring. Of course no one wants music or dancing around but teachers need to make the classrooms and lectures more engaging. How?

image thumb51 Top Hat Monocle Ensures You Keep Your Students Engaged In Classroom

I seriously don’t need to tell how this can be done provided the numerous tools available for all of us to use. Top Hat Monocle is one such startup that provides a tool for instructors to use in the classroom to make lectures more engaging for students. The platform let’s them conduct polls, quizzes, and interactive demonstrations in class.With Top Hat Monocle lets students can participate using pretty much any device they have, for example their smartphones; iPhone, iPad, iPod, or laptop. This creates an extremely engaging learning environment for the students that aren’t limited by outdated "clicker" hardware.

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image thumb25 CoboCards: Bringing Flash Card Tradition To The Web, Faster Collaborations, More Interactive Studies

How many of you still prefer using flash cards to assist in your studies? Well if you are one of those who want a more Web touch to it and collaborate with your fellows to have an interactive study experience, do try CoboCards. Honestly speaking I have never tried flash cards, especially because I found creating those extremely tiring that they appeared quite unhelpful, but I have been exploring the site for some time now and it makes flash cards fun.

The site offers quite a handy tool for students, you can avail the free offer but that will limit you to 3 sets of flash cards, something which is quite less given loads of coursework you have. The platform lets you study in groups, create cards, print those and maintain a look on the activity of friends via a clean chat dashboard. The paid versions are quite cheap and I bet it lets the group pitch in for the cash and avail the numerous features it has. Some of the features include:

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image thumb104 EDUIT.orgs GEM(Global educational movement) no wonder a gem of a task Education is fundamental right of each and every human such a task is realized by EDUIT. The site has taken an initiative with an alias GEM (global education movement) that aims to facilitate learning process with the same standard through out. Hence this is why the World Wide Web is chosen to be the medium. What is the site’s take on  the subject? Well, it looks forward to merge the existing technology to communicate to naive minds via interactive activities and games. 

With a mission statement to flatten out educational system around the globe the site fosters and promotes interactive media for all ages related to various subject like math, science etc. Through this method students from all around the world can challenge and compete each other. However the best thing is that these dynamic games do not require any specific system and are readily accessible from any machine that supports the internet. The sponsors of this site also aim to offer prizes to students with great achievements  through this portal

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