This is a virtual Learning Management System that is for really anyone. Teachers, Instructors and trainers can use the features to present their lecture or training online. These can be closed or open learning environments with many popular features. Starting with the option to invite learners, it moves to prebuilt learning objects, chat rooms, ability to create tests and quizzes and tracking with grading systems. This seems like it would be useful for teaching and learning because it seems like a good start to try one of these systems with out making a big purchase for a whole system. If you wanted to try one out and your institution did not want to pay for the Tech support you could go out on your own and make a pretty good successful tool and then make your case. Pretty straight forward.
This is also a Learning Management System, but quite a bit different than eduslide. This has teacher-contributed lesson plans and the advantage of NBC News videos. This is a K-12 LMS. It based on the concept of real world learning. Trying to increase interest in subjects like math, it uses motorcycles and travel to propose math equations and make solving more interesting. It focuses on connecting teachers, students and parents letting them all have access to the materials. Hot Chalk also is offered in Global sites so learning in another language could be possible. This seems like it would be useful for teaching and learning for many reasons: multilingual ability, interesting learning situations that are real life and relatable, getting parents involved, adding technology to k-12 environments. Really want to explore this one.
For the eduslide, I think it is very useful for teachers because teachers always look for some slides for their classes.And converting powerpoint presentations to flash files to use them in courses will make the class more intersting. It can also record your own audio or videos and use them in your courses like what we learned using padomatic. Like many other on line learning systems, it provides many useful and valuable features for us to use.
ReplyDeleteI like hotchalk. First it is really a funny name. And different from other websites, it provides us different role in teaching and learning. Usually there are both entries for teacher and student but here teachers, students, parents, technological coordinators and even school administrators can enrrol in. It seems to be a real school with many different positions and the administrator can be in charge of their teachers as well.
ReplyDeleteYou found some excellent Web 2.0 tools that teachers need to try! Will examine both more in depth...Thanks Weiwei for posting a thoughtful response!
ReplyDeleteI also love that you had an immediate application for the timeline app that Brittnay shared...now that shows how valuable these tools really are!
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