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"Wikispaces Classroom is a social writing platform for education. We make it incredibly easy to create a classroom workspace where you and your students can communicate and work on writing projects alone or in teams. Rich assessment tools give you the power to measure student contribution and engagement in real-time. Wikispaces Classroom works great on modern browsers, tablets, and phones."

Ciao, Fabrizio! Conosco Wikispaces e condivido il tuo entusiasmo. Ho aperto lo scorso anno quattro ambienti di studio in Wikispaces, uno per ognuna delle mie classi che, anche se in misura diversa, hanno reagito molto positivamente, collaborando ed aprendo nuove pagine su argomenti scolastici, ma anche relative ai loro interessi,. e mettendo a disposizione dei compagni materiali e manufatti virtuali. :) M. Antonella

Ciao Antonella piacere di saperlo! Ogni tanto mi sento come Don Chisciotte coi mulini a vento e fa piacere saper di non essere il solo matto del villaggio. Mi piacerebbe visitare le tue pagine, sono pubbliche? Io in effetti ho usato wikispaces fin ad ora a titolo personale http://limfab.wikispaces.com/ ,prima di passare più o meno tutto il materiale del wiki al sito web http://limfabweb.weebly.com/ (nella assurda illusione di completare qualcosa...) e appena potrò (famosa frase...) mi riprometto anche di ritornarci su. Come wiki per le classi ho usato invece Pbworks http://fabriziobartoliworkspace.pbworks.com/w/page/63273860/FrontPage, sopratutto l'anno passato, cercando di integrarlo con Google apps/drive che uso come piattaforma principale di condivisione. Ho incrociato qualche webinar su wikispaces classroom e così mi è venuta voglia di provare anche questo. Magari possiamo trovare il modo di usare qualche pagina insieme, con qualche classe, anche se all'atto non ho idea di cosa insegni (io insegno inglese scuola media)...

"The best free way to manage your research Organize, share, discover 1Download Mendeley for free 2Add all your PDFs 3Organize, cite and collaborate…"

"How can we help you? TELeurope offers you an ideal platform for engaging with dialogues with some of your peers, with TEL researchers, and with TEL providers and for seeking ways to jointly promote the progress of learning technologies. We want to provide you with information about on going research efforts in the academia related to your field and offer possibilities of collaboration with senior researchers, as well as with promising students and young researchers. Here is a list of key documents and activities you might be interested in:"

Connect with Colleagues in Education, Create Professional Learning Communities, Collaborate on Goals and Initiatives, Support for New Teachers, Practice 21st Century Skills

"Snaplr is a simple way to capture and annotate your desktop's activity. Its Free to download, a great addition for your email/collaboration tool."

"About QuickScreenShare.com: QuickScreenShare.com is the simplest way to share screens with anybody: No registration required and completely free. Nothing to install for sharer or sharee (assuming you have Java). Works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Even lets you remotely control mouse and keyboard! This free service is a side project from the creators of Screencast-O-Matic.com and is still in BETA. We use it extensively for remote user support and collaboration. The current version creates a direct peer-to-peer connection, so if you're on a super duper secure school or company network it may or may not be able to connect, but in most cases you'll find it works quite well so give it a shot!"

"Google Hangouts is Google's free video-conferencing tool that is available for teachers to use as part of Google Apps for Education. Up to 10 participants can join a Google Hangout at a time. It's a great way to connect your classroom with other classrooms anywhere in the world. This site will provide teachers and administrators with step-by-step directions how to get started on Hangouts, joining a Hangout, collaboration tools available inside a Hangout, and ideas for ways to use Hangouts in your classroom."

"Advances in technology make it possible for students to experience personalized learning anytime and anywhere. But this can only take place if our school systems have well designed networks that support the increased demands of student devices and 24/7/365 access and that remain current in the face of rapidly evolving technologies. In our first phase, with the generous support of Qualcomm, the SEND Initiative developed guidelines for network design and a checklist for district network planning. Currently, SEND II is building on that work in collaboration with leading technology partners: ENA, Filewave, Fortinet, Presidio, Juniper Networks, and SAFARI Montage, SEND II is developing next-level resources for building network architectures that can handle and evolve with new demands."

Linked in http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/10/21/lessons-learned-from-security-breaches.html

"Ce MOOC (des cours en ligne gratuits et ouverts à tous) est conçu pour vous faire entrer dans les coulisses de la plus grande encyclopédie au monde : comprendre son fonctionnement, ses règles, découvrir sa communauté (sans hiérarchie), la manière dont la fiabilité du contenu est assurée, etc. Ces cours vous permettront également d'apprendre à contribuer vous-même à Wikipédia : modifier des articles, les illustrer, les mettre en forme, interagir avec les autres contributeurs, travailler de manière collaborative... À la fin du WikiMOOC, vous serez même amené à créer votre tout premier article sur Wikipédia."

IRC  If you are a newcomer or veteran, tech-savvy or not, this page is intended to show how to get connected with others in the Mozilla project for online chat. The page also serves as a listing of IRC channels that are frequently used, with descriptions of their general purpose. There are also instructions for the non-technical folks on how they can join an IRC chat.

Voicethread: il sito. Per presentazioni commentate con flusso audio, anche collaborativamente. In inglese.

The "Teatro a Scuola" (Theater School) project, directed at 14-18 year-old, Real innovation lies in the involvement of students as writers, in a collaborative theatrical storytelling. During the theater workshop the teacher in charge of the project planned and implemented with the participants experimental activity that was inserted within the Italian program. Its purpose is to stimulate participants' creativity. It aims at to become an integral part of the activities foreseen by the school syllabus and to offer, next to the traditional learning method, a form of learning by doing. The project consists in three distinct, yet interdependent, moments: a first theoretical stage, which foresees a short series of lessons on the history of theater; a second stage dedicated to a theater workshop (elocution, lively reading, mime, song, dance etc.); and a final show, i.e. a genuine theatrical representation for the whole school and all citizens. Characteristics of innovation and experimentation of the project were that: students were not only actors but also authors and screenwriters; also, the project involved elders of the University of the Third Age (NGO)

"The (Free) Efficient Way to Manage Class Q&A How is this better than email, newsgroups, and discussion forums? Students actually use Piazza, they love it. This difference stems from how we built Piazza. We've personally met with and spoken to thousands of students and instructors. The result is a beautifully intuitive and simple product that students love and use."

Ultimo post sul blog un anno fa: http://blog.piazza.com/2012/07/23/7-management-secrets-of-the-postpartum-ceo/ . Può darsi che la fondatrice nonché CEO di Piazza abbia trovato il pupo bipede ancora più impegnativo di quanto pensasse... Scherzi a parte: sì, sembra interessante, in particolare per il supporto di LaTEX, ma colpisce il fatto che le università elencate sono tutte US. Chissà se accettano anche istituzioni straniere - e viceversa, nel caso dell'Italia, se le istituzioni educative dipendenti da MIUR sono autorizzate e crearvisi un account?

Registrarmi non mi andava (già mi arrivano tonnellate di mail!), ma di primo acchito, con la demo, mi pare si tratti di un forum simile a tanti altri: mi sbaglio?

Simple Online Document Management

"Welcome to WikiEducator Just Try It! Our community will support you"

"Welcome to PrimaryPad PrimaryPad is a web-based word processor designed for schools that allows pupils and teachers to work together in real-time. Look below to see how it works and create a new pad to the right to have a go, you also get a free 3 month trial when you sign up! Free pads last 30 days from the time of creation."

"Get a FREE RealtimeBoard license to enhance your teaching If you are a teacher or a student, you are eligible for a free version of our full-featured Pro account."

"Are you curious about the Helpouts experience? Take a free test spin with a member of the Helpouts Team! You'll get a firsthand tour of the product and see just how easy it is to receive help over video chat. Schedule a time with one of our Helpouts Specialists, or see who is available now! Our team of knowledgeable specialists looks forward to showing you how it all works. If there is a long queue to join this Helpout, feel free to watch our intro video instead!"

La mia recenzione di questo "helpout sugli helpout": "Ronnie was very patient and gave very clear answers. As to whether people from other countries than Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, U.K., and the U.S. (see https://support.google.com/helpouts/answer/3164468?hl=en&ref_topic=14126 ) would be allowed to offer helpouts in future, he said this is planned. As to the difference between helpouts and hangouts, he explained that though helpouts are using the hangout platform, they are a different service. And when asked if helpout participants can use the live captioning app that can be used in hangouts (see https://hangout-captions.appspot.com/ ), he said no. When I asked why the "Introducing Helpouts by Google" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-VFC9AQM1k video is uncaptioned, and the video embedded in the "Find out what it's like to get a Helpout!" https://helpouts.google.com/111421743141645456280/ls/b41c1faef6b76d0f page is not only uncaptioned, but also uncaptionable via e.g. streaming it to amara.org, because if you try to open it on youtube, you get to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=picasacid , which says: "An error occurred during validation. This video does not exist. Sorry about that." he candidly said he couldn't answer and suggested using the feedback, which I'm doing. Same reply when I asked if Google planned to caption these videos. Sure, I would have preferred to get more hopeful answers to the questions about accessibility, but it was great to get candid ones, which can now be reported to the discussion lists of the Collaborative for Communication Access via Captioning - http://ccacaptioning.org/ . " No, è vero, Ronnie è stato bravissimo. Chissà quanti helpout si sarà sorbito quel giorno, e paffete arriva una che comincia a rompergli le scatole e il nuovo giocatolo Google, portandolo a riconoscere implicitamente che insomma, meglio gli hangout veri e propri..

"Class Messenger makes it effortless for teachers to send home important notes and updates about the day's learning experiences. They can even see exactly which parents have read each note. And whether via app, text or email, communication through Class Messenger is always private."