| The following links are various tools available FREE to educators, students, and parents. I've given a brief description of each to help get you started. Some are explanations, tutorials, or brief videos. | |
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Blogging Here's a video of what a Blog is in Plain English... |
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The following link has some answers to questions you may have about blogging, including grading (sample rubrics). |
http://theedublogger.com/2010/07/06/what-you-wanted-to-know-about-student-blogging/ |
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Wikispaces.com Wikispaces is a free site for users to create their own wikis for students, parents, and colleagues to use. This short tutorial gives you insight on how to get started with your Wiki. |
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| Personalize your Wiki. Here you may change the color, theme, as well as add a logo to your site. | http://www.wikispaces.com/site/tour/myspace |
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Add Images and Files
to your Wiki. Your wiki will store these files for you. |
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Edmodo is an online classroom communications blogging tool for teachers and students to share Files, Links, Polls, and Assignments.
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following the link, click on the Yellow School Bus to take a "tour"
of Edmodo. It will give you a brief description of all the tools
involved in Edmodo.
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| This guide will show you step by step how to use different tools in Edmodo to create Assignments, do Grading and post messages, just to name a few. There is a calendar feature as well. | |
| Edublogs.org | |
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Edublog is a free, secure online blog for educators as well as students. The following link has screenshots and some tutorials as well to help you get started with your blog. |
http://help.edublogs.org/getting-started-with-edublogs/ |
| Top ten reasons to use Edublog in teaching |
http://edublogs.org/10-ways-to-use-your-edublog-to-teach/ |