"It's all about people-powered products: We are a community of people passionate about well designed everyday products. By sharing our loves, hates and ideas, we can challenge the one-size-fits-all approach to assistive equipment through the use of clever modern design. "
Quirky offers three different areas: You can help to develop new products of and product ideas of all different kinds. You can buy products. You can promote products via facebook and twitter. Last you can be a part of the community.
Pedagogical uses:languages skills, creative designing,
tag: Intermediate level, English languag skills requierd, art
LeMill is primary a tool for trainers. You have to register for free, that you can use it. It is a tool for finding, authoring and sharing open educational resources. 18759 teachers from 67 countries share 29838 learning resources in 49 languages. Only the Greek lanuage is missing.
Pedagogical uses: find, develop educational learning materials, and work on them with other trainers
tag: trainer, learning materials
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
Artician is a new community for creative professionals! We provide an effortless way for anyone to build, manage, and fully customize their portfolio. We also like to promote and feature creative talent, let's show your work to the world. It's free, sign up below!
This tool allow student to show and promote his/her creative works.
Pedagogical uses: presenting creative projects with images. This could be a good tool to show final creative projects to other countries students.
"What is ThingLink?
ThingLink helps you create and discover touching images.
Be creative! Make your images come alive with music, video, text, images, shops and more!
Every image contains a story and ThingLink helps you tell your stories. Follow image channels from your favorite bands, bloggers and friends. Your ThingLink interactive images form a channel that other users can follow.
Share your channel with friends on Facebook and Twitter, and follow your friends. Touch and discover."
Technical uses: Create your account in Google +, make your circles of contacts and start a videoconference. Talk up to 10 people simultaneously, for free.
Pedagogical uses: Communication between peers, collaborative work, teamwork between teachers.
could be very useful for the International project! It's free and anyone can join. You can also download a client to your computer (if you have a Mac) or mobile phone/tablet, but it can also be used online.
MusicBrainz is a community music metadatabase that attempts to create a comprehensive music information site. MusicBrainz Tagger to automatically identify and clean up the metadata tags in your digital music collections or use other software.
At Google, we support teachers in their efforts to empower students and expand the frontiers of human knowledge. That's why we've assembled the information and tools you'll find on this site.
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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.
The Internet is loaded with free software, making it hard to know which one's you really need. This article will act as your guide to the top 20 free applications (Web and Windows) for increased productivity.
This web site colects web 2.0 tools. We suggest some of them for Pedagogical uses::
Skype and Gmail for communicating
Google Calendar and 7.Zip for planifying
Cam Studio and Audacity for creating videos and audio (they are bookmarked in this Diigo list aswell)
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
Collaborative web conferencing environment enabling synchronous communication using video and audio or through text chat, and to share presentations, documents and images on an interactive whiteboard.
Relaytor is a simple tool to send mass messages attaching files but especially adding polls of up to 10 options. It can be useful in ReAct project in communication in National and International level. Pedagogical uses: The trainer can create a poll in order to find out priorities. Learners can create their own polls regarding their education or in social subjects.