Skype - A famous tool on date, Skype is immensely useful for connecting small groups of students and is particularly purposeful in one to one interactive sessions between the tutor and his student. It facilitates video chat with high quality. You could share files, docs, and conference other students and tutors for an easy learning process. Very effective for local tutoring for simple questions, it is tremendously helpful for global connectivity as well.
IDroo - a Microsoft online tool, IDroo is a support to Skype with its whiteboard, facilitating tutor student interaction in a better fashion through allowing the tutors to write sentences, draw images and graphs, solve problems, build circuits and insert images and mathematical equations on the board. It is splendid in its function with an ability to brainstorm the online tutoring sessions, giving uplift for the tutoring methods and learner motivation. Scribbler, another whiteboard is also reckoned well for its usage in collaborative work.
Google+ Hangouts - a very common tool liked by any tech savvy person today, Google+ Hangouts comes handy in the scenario of online tutoring industry with its capacity to share screen, connect to Google docs,archive discussions for your easy use and better interaction. In the hectic schedule of educational set up faced by both the tutors and students, Google+ Hangouts becomes favorite spot for easy global communication with valuable sharing of knowledge and information round the clock.
Wiki spaces Education - yet another online tool for creating online multimedia atmosphere for learning which is conducive for tutoring with its facilities like sharing work, ideas, videos, links and images. It helps the online tutor organize his material, teams, collaborative work and edit his wiki pages or add sources from anywhere. The tutor could decide the allocation of content for his students as per the specific targets he has on hand and carry on with his tutoring work in a personalized manner. Wiki spaces is useful for revision purposes and other educational matters.
You Tube - a very famous and common tool of the day, YouTube serves many purposes for the tutors online for enhancing their communication strategies through personalizing their video channels. The content you wish to convey through the YouTube video lectures of your own could make proud moments in your life as an online tutor. You Tube makes way for better interface with the tutor through Screen casting, allowing you to record your voice with video presentation for clarifying a topic.
Other tools like TED, Edmodo and WiZIQ are also note worthy for their contribution to the online tutoring. world for easy interface and connectivity between the tutors and the learners. Credit goes to the realm of technology that has spurred a revolution in the tutoring and learning atmosphere for a better educational set up.