Search results matching tags 'edcation resource' and 'collaboration'

EVENTBRITE: Event Registration Tool

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:58:33 GMT

Greetings,

EVENTBRITE is a free event registration tool.

Recently, a group of colleagues and I organized and hosted an EdCamp event called “EdCamp Fraser Valley” (Thank you to everyone who attended). My job was to create an information web site and online registration system. For that I turned to good old Google for web space, an online [...]

TIME, TIDE AND THE NET: A Speech About Social Media

Anonymous — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 14:00:10 GMT

Greetings,

TIME, TIDE AND THE NET is an amazing speech about the power of Social Media from a most unlikely source.

How about something different on this Labour Day Monday?

For many teachers, it’s the last day of summer holidays before school resumes. It’s also a day filled with emotion: happiness and anticipation to be returning to class [...]

GROUP MAKER: Free, Online, Random Group Creator

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:00:02 GMT

Greetings,

GROUP MAKER is a free web app that will randomly select students to be members of a group.

Today’s app is one of several apps offered on the SuperTeacherTools web site. This site has a number of interesting tools which I hope to sample in the days and weeks ahead but today, my first choice is [...]

BETTER.BRACKET.MAKER: Free, Online, Tournament Bracket Maker

Anonymous — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 14:00:38 GMT

Greetings,

BETTER.BRACKET.MAKER is a free online service for making tournament brackets used to organize sports events.

This may come as a shock but I’m not much of an athlete. During my high school years, most of my athletic endeavours (when not warming a bench) involved working as the team manager, tournament timer, or statistician. How [...]

OPENSTUDY: Free, Online Collaboration Tool

Anonymous — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:00:13 GMT

Greetings,

OPENSTUDY is a free online collaboration tool to help students study and problem solve.

OPENSTUDY is a free, online service that provides students with a means and a venue to collaborate and help each other. There are a couple of different ways this can be done. Students can create a private group or meeting area [...]

PRIMARYPAD: Free, Web Based Document Collaboration

Anonymous — Thu, 20 May 2010 14:00:29 GMT

Greetings,

PRIMARYPAD is a free, web based document collaboration tool built on the Etherpad platform.Since the demise of Etherpad, that “sweet” online document collaboration tool, several new apps have emerged, built on the Etherpad foundation. One that may interest educators is PRIMARYPAD, an Etherpad derivative create specifically for education.

While the intended audience may be education, [...]

WEPAPERS: Notes and Assignment Sharing Site

Anonymous — Fri, 14 May 2010 14:00:56 GMT

Greetings,

WEPAPERS is free web site where users can store, organize and share class notes, tests, assignments, etc.According to the web site, this a place where students can, “find, read, print and download tons of quality documents, exam and textbook solutions and cheat-sheets for anything you study in college. Not only can students search for [...]

MEMBERHUB: Free Group Collaboration Service

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:00:56 GMT

Greetings,

MEMBERHUB is a free group notification and collaboration service.

This has to be one of the nicest, most feature rich yet easy to use groupware/group collaboration services I seen in quite a while. The focus of this service is to provide an easy way to keep members of a group informed about what happening rather [...]

JENUINE TECH: Online Clearing House of Collaborative Classroom Projects

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:02:59 GMT

Greetings,

JENUINE TECH is a web site with listings of projects which any class (with Internet access) can join and participate in.

One the earliest educational “hooks” for Internet connectivity was the potential for collaborating with other classes, across town, across the country or around the world. Like most lofty ideals, the devil was in the [...]

MENDELEY: Free Research Collaboration Tool

Anonymous — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:44:50 GMT

Greetings

MENDELEY is a free academic research and collaboration tool that utilizes both a downloadable program and a web site for it’s services.

MENDELEY has been called the i-Tunes of academic research and the comparison is not far off. It is a service which allows researchers, academics and others to upload store and share their their [...]