Teachers for all levels of students today have so many more teaching aids than even just a few years ago. That's not just because of greater access to the Internet but also because of the growing number of web applications that they can use. Some applications are specifically geared towards teaching and learning. Other applications can be adapted for these purposes. Here's a list of some online applications, listed alphabetically, that we feel are excellent for teachers.
Description: Articles about Web 2.0 applied to Education, e-Learning 2.0, University 2.0. More resources: Universidad 2.0, Web Educativa 2.0. Proudly improved thanks to Biblioteca 2.0 and Cristian Cabezas. The origin of this reader was preparing my speech The Web 2.0 and the role of the University at UOC UNESCO Chair in Elearning Fourth International Seminar: Web 2.0 and Education.
The content and technology are continually changing. This article reminds us that learners are also changing. For the past decade, faculty who won awards for teaching expressed concern that they could no longer hold the attention of their students. John Seely Brown, Chief Scientist at Xerox and director of its Palo Alto Research Center, hired 15 year olds to design future work environments and learning environments. He observed that the students did not conform to the traditional image of learners as permissive sponges. It requires us to rethink and redesign education for the Digital Age.
On WiZiQ, teachers and learners can connect live anywhere in the world from home using our virtual classroom software. Inside the virtual classroom you share an interactive synchronized collaborative environment where you can communicate with each other on one-to-one basis using microphone, chat and share whiteboard (similar to blackboard in the classroom), presentation and documents.
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Tech-heavy tutorials...Moodle is an Open Source learning management system (LMS). It is written in PHP and requires a MySQL database. Moodle is free to download and use. It is the most popular e-learning management software and is suitable for creating online courses, school, high school, college, and university web sites. You can check the Moodle full features list here
Open source software packages listed under the category of "education."
The term elearning (aka e-learning, eLearning, and variations) is commonly used to denote the use of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in delivering learning or learner support. This can apply to all sorts of educational activity, from indidual self-directed learning through to the implementation by educational institutions of complex, comprehensive, highly structured packages designed to deliver instructional commodities.
A wiki is essentially a website constructed in such a way as to allow users to change content on the site. Wikis have been around for longer than we may imagine - WikiWikiWeb was the first wiki, created by Ward Cunningham in 1994 and placed online in 1995. Initially wikis were used mostly by technical people such as scientists and engineers to develop and maintain dynamic knowledge bases; ...
Examples of education wikis!
A wide variety of scientists, educators, celebrities, and luminaries present talks on a variety of subjects from past TED conferences on this site: Jeff Han, NicholasNegroponte, Dan Gilbert, Anna Deveare-Smith, Ray Kurzweil, Peter Gabrielle, Robert Neuwirth, Al Gore, Bono, Steven Levitt, Eve Ensler, ZeFrank, Jimmy Whales, Richard Baraniuk...and more.
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Teachers for all levels of students today have so many more teaching aids than even just a few years ago. That's not just because of greater access to the Internet but also because of the growing number of web applications that they can use. Some applications are specifically geared towards teaching and learning. Other applications can be adapted for these purposes. Here's a list of some online applications, listed alphabetically, that we feel are excellent for teachers.
Description: Articles about Web 2.0 applied to Education, e-Learning 2.0, University 2.0. More resources: Universidad 2.0, Web Educativa 2.0. Proudly improved thanks to Biblioteca 2.0 and Cristian Cabezas. The origin of this reader was preparing my speech The Web 2.0 and the role of the University at UOC UNESCO Chair in Elearning Fourth International Seminar: Web 2.0 and Education.
Examples of education wikis!
A wide variety of scientists, educators, celebrities, and luminaries present talks on a variety of subjects from past TED conferences on this site: Jeff Han, NicholasNegroponte, Dan Gilbert, Anna Deveare-Smith, Ray Kurzweil, Peter Gabrielle, Robert Neuwirth, Al Gore, Bono, Steven Levitt, Eve Ensler, ZeFrank, Jimmy Whales, Richard Baraniuk...and more.
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