The greatest gain will come from the collective
knowledge and experience of the
education community. Infrastructure
must be invented and implemented that
cultivates an ongoing professional conversation
across the entire education
landscape.
David Warlick has four things the POTUS ought to know about making U.S. schools better.
Last month I posted a manifesto of sorts to my Web site. I was following a meme started by a group of other edubloggers called "Five things policymakers ought to know!" T&L editors asked me to tweak it a bit to give our next President some big-picture twenty-first-century education advice. Here's my take.
Are you a professional developer, a high school teacher, or university faculty? Are you finding that some of your adult students born between 1976 and 1995 maybe even up to 2001 have specific needs that are difficult to meet in a traditional classroom situation? This generation is what we call the "Generation Y" high school and college students. You may be a Gen Yer or "Millennial". Think about what type of learning environment works best for you. If many of your students are the Generation Y, here are some ideas that might help you when you design your learning activities:
create your forum, mailing list,
share documents,files and your agenda to organize events, have your own
YouTube, share links, bookmarks, photos
ImaginationCubed
is a multi user drawing tool.
GroupTweet.
It lets you create your Twitter account into a group communication tool
where everyone in the group uses direct messages
Wallwisher is
an online notice board maker
Nik Peachey's Wallwisher as a great example.
PageFlakes is
a social personalized homepage
WriteBoard is
a-web based text documents
Wiggio
is an online toolkit
emails, text messages,voice mails.
eep shared calendar,
WeToku is an interview tool that automatically records
share your notes
Webnote is a tool for taking notes on your computer
PalBee is
a free online service that allows you to set up online video meetings
Phuser
is a tool for groups to discuss or work together and privately
WikiDot is
wiki builder to share content, documents and collaborate with your
students, colleagues, friends
Creately lets you create professional looking online diagrams with your colleagues
DoingText is
a web based text editor for collaborative writing.
SpringNote is
an online notebook for collaboration.
MeBeam is a place where you can create your chat room