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Description of TED-Ed TED-Ed is TED's youth and education initiative. TED-Ed's mission is to spark and celebrate the ideas of teachers and students around the world. Everything we do supports learning - from producing a growing library of original animated videos, to provide an international platform for teachers to create their own interactive lessons, to help curious students around the globe bring TED to their schools and gain presentation literacy skills, to celebrate innovative leadership within TED-Ed's global network of over 250,000 teachers. TED-Ed has grown from an idea worth spreading into an award-winning education platform that serves millions of teachers and students around the world every week.  Features of TED-Ed. 1. Each video featured on the site is mapped via. Tagging to the traditional subjects taught in school. Users can browse for videos by subjects. Popular subject categories include Arts, Literature and Language, Business and Economics, H...

Description of Google Scholar. Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, users can search across many disciplines and sources such as articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps user find relevant work across the world scholarly research. Stand on the shoulders of giants. Google Scholar aims to rank documents the way researchers do, weighing the full text of each document, where it was published, who it was written by, as well as how often and how recently it has been cited in other scholarly literature. Features of Google Scholar 1. Books and articles together. Not only do scholarly articles show up in search results, selected books also appear. There is no way of eliminating the books and just retrieving articles. On the other hand, the books inherit the features of Goog...

Description of PowToon. PowToon is an animation software. With PowToon, anyone can create engaging, animated videos with a professional look and feel. PowToon aim to bring a touch of awesomeness to everyday communications. Whether you're teaching a class, sending a note to a friend or pitching a product to potential investors, users can just PowToon it.  PowToon is a video-making platform for creating engaging, animated videos and presentations with zero design skills or technical background. Users can choose from a range of over 100 presentation templates for different purposed and customize the templates with company branding, content and visuals.  Every business needs to convey their message and value in an attention-grabbing way. Using animation knocks viewers off their tired diet of snoozer slides and allows them to imagine being addicted to your product before they ever lay hands on it. not only for business, PowToon also makes education awesome. PowToon i...

Description of Google Drive. Google Drive is a free cloud-based storage service that enables users to store and access files online. the service syncs stored documents, photos and more across all of the user's devices, including mobile devices, tablets and PCs. Google Drive integrates with the company's other services and systems including Google Docs, Gmail, Android, Chrome, Youtube, Google Analytics and Google+. Google Drive competes with Mocrosoft OneDrive, Apple iCloud, Box, Dropbox and SugarSync. As one might expect, Google Drive additionally provides advanced search capabilities for finding specific information within files and users can also share and collaborate with others on documents via the service's built-in access to the Google Docs suite of editing tools. Features of Google Drive With a Google account, users get 15GB of storage for free. Storage gets used by Google Drive, Gmail and Google Photos so users can store files, save their email attach...

Description of Duolingo. Duolingo is one of the most popular and well-known tools for learning a language online. Duolingo is absolutely free but it is worth it. The free language learning app offers 11 completed language courses for English speakers, 2 beta languages and 8 languages still in progress. Duolingo also includes language courses for speakers of languages other than English. These includes French for Portuguese speakers, English for Czech speakers and so on.   Features of Duolingo. Duolingo mimics the structure of video games in several ways in order to engage its users. There is a reward system in which users acquire "lingots", an in-game currency that can be spent on features such as character customizations or bonus levels. There are public leaderboards in which people can compete against their friends or see how they stack up against the rest of the world. The level system that Duolingo use is experience points, a numerical system that repres...

Description of Microsoft OneNote. OneNote can be a powerful way to organize projects and ideas. Many students use OneNote for academics and also for work and personal projects. Microsoft OneNote is like a digital version of a physical notebook. Users can capture digital notes and keep them organized. Users can add images, diagrams, audio, video and more.  OneNote designed to function as an electronic version of a notebook. Microsoft OneNote is a note-taking and personal information management (PIM) application for collecting, organizing and sharing digital information. By storing notes, photos, audio and video snippets, handwriting and similar content, Microsoft OneNote collects and organizes the information, making it available for searching as well as sharing with others.  Microsoft OneNote is included with the Microsoft Office suite, and it also syncs OneNote data between computers and mobile devices through Microsoft's Skydrive cloud storage service. Fe...

The description of Prezi. Prezi is a web-based tool for creating presentations which is similar to other presentation software that students always use. For example, Microsoft PowerPoint. The difference between Prezi and other presentation software is that Prezi offers some unique features that make it a good alternative for students or even businesses to do presentation as it has become very popular in recent years. Prezi is suitable for those who want to create a presentation that is a bit more eye-catching and engaging to the audiences.  Most types of presentation software use a slide-based approach, where we can move back and forth between the slides, like pages in a book. This is where Prezi is a bit distinct compared to other presentation software. Prezi uses a canvas-based approach. It has one large canvas that the presentation moves around on, zooming in and out to view various frames. Canvas-based approach is much more easier to describe with a visual aid...