One more. Thanks for sharing I've put links to other learning platform tools & resources here - http://www.pinterest.com/fabriziobartoli/lms/ - if they can be of any interest... - Though I think probably Schoology remains at present the best choice for teachers among free learning platforms. Cheers!
"Kidblog.org is designed for elementary and middle school teachers who want to provide each student with their own, unique blog.
Kidblog's simple, yet powerful tools allow students to publish posts and participate in discussions within a secure classroom blogging community. Teachers maintain complete control over student blogs. "
Videos are becoming such important tools for teachers, but one thing that stops many of us from using videos is making them: With all the other things we have to do, there's very little time to find the right video creation tool, learn how to use it, then actually create the videos.
Voki is an animation website . It is “ a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profiles and in email messages”. This web2.0 tool is very important in education as It enables teachers and students to express themselves on the web in their own voice , using a talking character.
"This post could be almost infinite: there is most certainly an extraordinary array of options for videos which expand educators' understandings and inspire advances in 21st century learning. But curation is about choice and selection, and while I know I will leave out many, I thought I'd offer up a set of 15 of my favorites for your consideration for video screening at at back-to-school or beginning-of-the-year faculty meetings (and/or parent and board meetings).
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Digital Storyteller is a web-based tool that offers teachers and students frictionless access
to digital images and materials that enable them to construct compelling
personal narratives. Digital Storyteller was developed as an initiative
of Primary Access.
Free tool to embed questions into your video instruction. Great for the flipped classroom.
Just found this eduCanon lesson made by a Spanish teacher in texas. Check it out: http://goo.gl/44upXi.
Headmagnet creates a model of what's going on in your head.
It predicts what memories have faded away, and what memories are still inside, allowing you to quickly get things in your head and keep them there.
The more you use headmagnet, the better it gets at modeling what goes on in your head.