Collaboration Tools
1. Blendspace
Google Form
Poll Daddy
Poll Everywhere
Survey Tools/ Assessment Tools
Plikers
Socrative
Kahoot
Ed-Puzzle
Play Posit
Rubric for Assessment Guidance
1. Blendspace
Edcanvas is now
Blendspace. Blendspace allows educators to digitally connect material in a
presentation format to create a lesson. Students are able to research
collaboratively online in real-time and click and drag their information into
the Blendspace canvas. Students may add videos, images, text documents,
presentations, and information searches from the browser bar to the left.
Why Use Blendspace?
- Do you want an easy way to plan a lesson that incorporates video, images, and documents quickly?
- Do you want your students to create multimedia presentations collaboratively?
- Do you want them to pay attention to student presentations?
Wikispace
Wikispaces, one of education's standout collaborative technology
in the classroom websites, is
closing down at the end of June 2018. Thousands of teachers have used the free
Wikispaces platform to share technology
in the classroom materials with
students and colleagues, to run online classrooms, or as the virtual arm of a
blended course. Its robustness and versatility allowed teachers to engage in
discussion boards, forums, share all sorts of media, and create a personalized technology
in the classroom environment
that could be tweaked to adapt to individual needs. Its end has left teachers
scrambling for alternatives that accomplish the same goals within a tight education budget.
Communication Tools
Blogspot
Once you’ve set up an
account with your blogging platform of choice, you can create a new blog. The
sites of all of the hosted blogging platforms walk you through the process,
making it very manageable. During the new blog creation process, you may be
asked whether you want to make your blog private. If not, you’ll need to change
the blog’s settings to “private” after you’ve finished creating it. The privacy
settings can usually be found in the “Settings” menu on your blogging platform
(check with the documentation if you can’t find it).
If you use WordPress.com,
you’ll find that there’s a theme called P2 that’s especially suited for turning your new blog
into a collaboration tool. It can be applied to your blog by selecting the
“Appearances” menu and then the “Theme” menu. From there, you’ll be able to
search for the P2 themes to apply to your blog. On Blogger and Typepad, you’ll
likely find that you’ll need to use less customized themes.
Skype
Skype allows these registered users to communicate through both
instant messaging and voice chat. Voice chat allows telephone calls between
pairs of users and conference calling and uses a proprietary audio codec.
E Portfolio Tools & Resources
Tools
In terms of the choice
of tool for developing a digital portfolio, it depends on what you want to
accomplish. There are many options for mounting a portfolio on the Internet,
all have different features and ease of use. The Faculty hasn't sponsored any one
tool, so you can choose the tool that best fits your needs.
Web Authoring
One approach to
creating an ePortfolio is to use a web authoring tool. This will give you
ultimate control of the look and feel of your web site (e.g. Dreamweaver,
Flash, etc.). This requires that you have a perminant web space to pubish your
portfolio and are willing to learn a complex web authoring application.
Internet Services
Another option is to
use an Internet service that provides your web space automatically and uses
templates for making it easy to create and post information on the Web. Many of
these services were not designed for portfolios per se but can be adapted to
suite the needs of a portfolio. Here are links to a few services that might be
useful (there are a host of other possibilities):
o
this
is a blog service that allows you to create blog enteries as well as individual
pages, and automatically creates the menu items - powerful but a bit
convoluted)
o
Teaching Portfolio Example (WordPress)
o
My Portfolio (WordPress)
o another blogging service that can be adpated
to creating eportfoliios, each entery can be another section of your portfolio
- works but is probably not the ideal solution)
·
Weebly
o an internet service solution for creating web
site publishing - using templates, automatically provides you with web space;
the basic account is free but costs for more advanced features
o Building your Educational Eportfolio with Weebly (a set of
tutorials)
·
Prezi
o online presenation creation tool that allows
you to turn your portfolio into a presentation by creating a path through the
elements which allows zooming in and zooming out of different locations on your
portfolio map
·
wix.com
o an Internet service that allows you to create
your own custom web site, probably comparable to Weebly; the basic account is
free but costs for more advanced features
Creativity Tools
For
the most part, your social media marketing campaign relies on visual content.
First, there were only images, but as better video-compression algorithms got
introduced, videos became an integrated part of the mainstream social media
marketing.In
fact, today, video storytelling is rapidly becoming a preferred way for
businesses to convey their brand message. If created smartly, videos attract
more online users & can bring a considerable boost in your brand’s overall
engagement rate.
So, here is the list of creative tools to make, edit & share video content that will enable you to take your brand marketing to the next level through video storytelling.
So, here is the list of creative tools to make, edit & share video content that will enable you to take your brand marketing to the next level through video storytelling.
Video creation &
editing to
Animoto
is a subscription based online video editing and creating service that allows
you to turn pictures and video clips into professional videos.
YouTube
Video Editor allows you to combine multiple clips together, trim a clip,
customize a clip with special effect, add sound to a video and publish it on
your YouTube channel with just one click
3. Telestream
Telestream
is a video editing & management tool used for video transcoding,
screen-casting, live webcasting, closed captioning and much more
4. Camtasia
A
handy tool for screen recording and editing videos to create explainer videos,
product/feature demos, etc. Camtasia also offers animation functionality and
various effects to make videos more compelling.
5. Ecamm
Their
punch line goes ‘We make your Mac life better’. Ecamm is primarily a video call
recording app for Mac and works with video calling apps like Facetime &
Skype.
Top Video Sharing Sites
1. YouTube
World’s largest video sharing platform that
hardly needs an introduction, but definitely offers more features than you are
aware of. Product & business promotion through videos is super easy and
most effective on YouTube.
Recommended Reading: YouTube Channel Optimization Guide
Recommended Reading: YouTube Channel Optimization Guide
16. Vimeo
Vimeo
is world’s largest platform for sharing & watching HD videos, with over 100
million visitors on monthly basis. Vimeo is more like a community for video
enthusiasts to discover creative videos and get inspired.
2. Dailymotion
One
of world’s leading online video sharing platforms, Dailymotion provides
video-makers across the world with right technology and flexibility to reach a
wider audience and stay inspired.
3. Ustream
Ustream,
an IBM Company, is the leading service provider to broadcast & watch live
streaming videos events across the world. Ustream provides businesses with
right tools and technology to make their videos more interactive and reach a
wider audience
4. Twitch
For
gamers, Twitch is a heaven. It is the world’s largest community for gamers to
share & broadcast videos. If your business is into creating games, then
Twitch is where you want to be active primarily.
5. Meta Cafe
One
of the biggest platforms for showcasing short-form videos of different types,
Metacafe offers custom creative solutions for businesses to enable them to
integrate their brand into the entertainment experience.
6. Vine
Vine
is a short-form video sharing service that allows you to share upto
6-second-long looping video clips. The service has over 200 million active
users. If you have something short and engaging, choose Vine.
Here
in this post, we have covered all the popular tools, so that you won’t have to
look anywhere else if you are serious about including videos in your online
marketing campaign. And hopefully, after reading about all these tools and what
you can do using them, you would be all excited to dive into video
storytelling.
Critical Thinking Tools
Survey/Feedback Tools
Fostering critical thinking skills is
always a challenge in teaching. Educators still honor Bloom’s Taxonomy as
the basis of learning. With that giving way to its revised and
updated interpretations, we now have critical thinking tools that can help in
all of the key components of developing such skills. In a nutshell, learning
encompasses a series of specific tasks, sometimes in order, but most often not.
The elements are there and online
tech tools can help today’s digital students to navigate through the
elements collaboratively. Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy outlines critical
thinking skills through the lens of Digital Natives.
The levels of this
taxonomy are:
·
Remembering
·
Understanding
·
Applying
·
Analyzing
·
Evaluating
CreatingGoogle Form
Easy to create surveys and forms for everyone
Create custom forms for surveys and
questionnaires at no extra cost. Gather everything in a spreadsheet and analyze
data right in Google Sheets.
Poll Daddy
Poll Everywhere
Survey Tools/ Assessment Tools
Plikers
Plickers is an assessment tool made by a teacher who was looking
for a quick and simple way to check student understanding. This assessment tool
allows teachers to collect on-the-spot formative assessment data without the
need to have students use devices or paper and pencil.
Socrative
Kahoot
Ed-Puzzle
Play Posit
Rubric for Assessment Guidance
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