This site has many great pictures and information about sites all over the world. The Education tab gives you lesson plans as well for some of the sites. Click on 'find a location', and you are brought to several possible areas around the world. Additional information is available by clicking on the arrows along side the pictures.
"images in Ookaboo are public domain or creative commons and can be used freely for blogs, web sites, schoolwork, publications, and other creative projects."
Use colorful collaboration with an online canvas. Incorportates sticky notes, uploading of pictures and YouTube videos.
You can create calender reminders also.
By making your canvas public it can be used as an exit ticket or for class discussions. Students can use their computers, IPads or Smart phones. Great collaboration tool which students can use both in and outside the classroom
This tool allows you to create an online portfolio that your students can take pictures of their work and add it to their portfolio, which you can access for free online.
Thanks for sharing this Nick. I'm really considering how to implement online portfolios in my classroom next year and this looks like a wonderful site!
Nick, seems like a great tool that teachers could utilize easily. I tried to explore a bit to find information about cost and storage etc. and could not find anything. Do you know more about this?
Thank you for sharing. Portfolios have always been a great asset for our classes but online are getting even more relevance now as most departments are making them a priority for many languages and disciplines
Sabine,
With regards to cost, it is free. I am unsure about how much storage that they give you to use on the site. That was something that was not talked about at the conference where I discovered the tool.
Van Nood explains that after spending years with paper portfolios, he transitioned this concept into digital form, and have started to implement Evernote as the primarily system for creating portfolios in his classroom.
He was using portfolios with limited success and spending a lot of time on them, until Evernote came into the picture.
When he first started researching options, he was coming across a lot of companies that were really expensive, charging a lot for each student's use. He also knew that he needed an app for mobile devices that would make it easy to capture and document paperwork and he wasn't finding that in most of the tools I was evaluating. Evernote was free, had an app for virtually every device, and he could get started right away.