successful productivity tool for teams. great interface and management features. used by BIG tech companies like Foursquare, Twitter, AirBnB, LinkedIn, etc.
easy and accessible tool for students, allows us work together to create biographies and timelines like a wiki through collaborative work to create results in a multimedia timeline. To get a richer content, we can include texts, images and video.
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This is a first approach for teachers to research about all tools that GOOGLE offers to education. There are many and very useful, try it!
Pedagogical uses: collaborating, presenting, comunicating, planning, sharing.
InterLoc realises Dialogue Games for learning and thinking through combining synchronous group interaction and personal activities. The games promote critical and creative discussion, reasoned dialogue and collective inquiry within the digital landscape.
It's a kind of electronic on line agenda that allows you to plan your work, projects, things to do, giving a priority. It's a collaborative tool.
Pedagogical uses:
project management, deadlines, workflow management, etc...
Tags: free, project management, communication, project
Intermediate level
The story is all inside your head
She said to me
The answer is easy if you
Go on the web and see
I'd like to help you in your struggle
To be free
There must be fifty web 2.0 ways
To tell a story
Guidelines how you can tell a story with a range of tools to illustrate your story.
Ways to tell your personal story or the collaborate on a common story.
Pedagogical use: storytelling as one possibility to present oneself in the familiarisation phase
way to develop and present a (transnational) project
It is an simple, intuitive content management, where the online file sharing is secured and a lot of features for collaboration are offered.Box lets you store documents, media and all of your content online, so you can access, manage and share them from anywhere. Integrate Box with Google Apps and Salesforce. Access Box on mobile devices. Free trial version only.
Pedagogoical uses: project amangement, deadlines, timetable, share media and files
Tom's planner is online free software for project planning simple enough in use. Pedagogical uses can be both for learners and trainers. Learners can plan their educational and personal activities. Trainers can plan their different classes. As it is online tool enables collaboration in planning.
Skillshare is a community marketplace to learn anything from anyone. It is a community of peers centered around learning. The platform helps make the exchange of knowledge easy, enriching and collaborative.
Pedagogical uses:
information sharing, creation of a class
advanced level
Tags: not free, e-learning, sharing informations
In this project, you can make your plants send messages to Twitter, for example when they are thirsty.
Pedagogical uses: learn about electronics, programming, media, sensor technology, collaboration
Pros: creative, useful knowledge, innovation
Cons: difficult, high learning curve, some equipment needed (to be purchased online)
web site focussed on education web 2.0 with links to teachers web 2.0 sites and interesting web 2.0tools to be used in class related to virtual office, Word processing, spreadsheet, image creation, maps, blogs, audio/podcasting, blogs, …
Pedagogical uses: creating , presenting, create podcasts, ,...
MindMeister is an online mind mapping tool offering several functions in order to collect, organise an comment ideas:
graphical connections between ideas
history view with playback facility
Wikimaps (everybody can edit)
task feeds, search in maps, ,...
pedagogical use: creating mind maps for e.g. personal or group todo lists, project plans, meeting minutes, presentations of project ideas (e.g. in order to find project partners)
Digital storytelling is simply using computer-based tools to tell stories. There are many different ways to do this - from making movies, recording voices, creating animations or electronic books. In schools they can help to take a task that might be seen as mundane - write a report, write a story, explain a process, describe an experiment - and turn it into something a whole lot more interesting.There are a great many tools out there that could be used for digital storytelling. Here are a few mentioned.
Building the world of your interests. A pearltree represents a given interest. A pearltree is made of pearls and each pearls represents a web content.
Pedagogical uses: to organize and bookmark information. To share resources
Get more of what you love by searching across numerous Google products with one click.
Try with "education" for example. You'll get a Google search environment, another way to improve your search. Very practical.
Pedagogical uses: research and organization