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“do-it-yourself learning management systems.”

Components in my conception of DIYLMS include·         A wiki portal for course information and organization, with links pertinent to course content and management, and other relevant resources, such as screencasts and tutorials·         Google Docs for student submission of assignments, and teacher feedback on student writing·         Blogging, to showcase student work·         Etherpad clones for group collaboration tasks·         Jing and Screenr to create and annotated screen-capture and screencast tutorials·         A back-channel tool such as Twitter, Skype group chat, or Edmodo·         In teacher training, I also use these synchronous learning tools o   Skype group chat as a synchronous AND asynchronous forum o   Google Hangout for live webcam and voice-enabled interaction o   WiZiQ

Four Student Response Systems

Google Docs Google Docs provides a free way to collect responses called Forms.

While there is a free Poll Everywhere plan for K-12 classrooms, the $50 per year plan gives teachers the ability to see individual student responses and to approve text-based responses before they appear for the whole class to see