The top 10 edtech products preferred by students and teachers

Here’s a pop quiz for you. What do you get when the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gets involved in the world of education technology? Well, a handy list of resources for starters. They recently unveiled a site called ‘Teachers Know Best‘ which features the results of a survey of teachers and students. They tried to identify the top 10 edtech products preferred by students and teachers. As you can see from the image below, there are some of the usual suspects (Khan Academy, Google Search, Edmodo) but the order of preference might actually surprise you. Or maybe not, really.

http://dailygenius.com/top-10-edtech-products-students-teachers/

Open-i : Image Search Engine

The Open-i project, National Library of Medicine, aims to provide next generation information retrieval services for biomedical articles from the full text collections such as PubMed Central. It is unique in its ability to index both the text and images in the articles.
Open-i lets users retrieve not only the MEDLINE citation information, but also the outcome statements in the article and the most relevant figure from it. Further, it is possible to use the figure as a query component to find other relevant images or other visually similar images. Future stages aim to provide image region-of-interest (ROI) based querying. The initial number of images is projected to be around 600,000 and will scale to millions.

Social Mention

Social Mention gives real time results from social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, YouTube, and about 100 more sources. SocialMention offers bar graphs that show the top keywords, top users, top hashtags, and sources. The results are also sliced and diced into “buckets” that critique the messages for strength, sentiment, passion, and reach (FreePint Newsletter No.365, 2012)
http://www.socialmention.com/

BioMedSearch

BioMedSearch is a biomedical search engine that contains NIH/PubMed documents, a large collection of theses, dissertations, and other proprietary publications not found anywhere else for free, making it one of the most comprehensive and powerful free biomedical searches.
BioMedSearch also provides advanced account features that allow saved searches, alerts, saving documents to portfolios, commenting on documents and portfolios, and sharing documents with other registered users. Registering for BioMedSearch is free.
The link is http://bmlsearch.com/?&kwr=&ck=&cxts=10&fntszff=100&hghlght=maroon&srtrdr=relevance&annttn=none&pdthm=2010&hqryhstry=67ebaaa19d546c3656049267c732940c&pgwdth=100&mld=&wft=wims&b4s=914007886&flnm2=bmlhome.html&ifjs=ys