Help!
What Web2.0 tool should I use?
What Web2.0 tool would you use?
This year for my Year 7 maths class I want to have a learning management system – but without using commercial software ie no Moodle (takes too long to learn); no Sharepoint (need access to set up on servers) and no Blackboard (cost too much).
This is what I want to do with it:
- set tasks and have students reply that they have completed them
- put course materials online
- have students ask questions online
- have video lessons that I make available for each teaching moment
- have parents see progress of their child and make comments
- be accessible from home
- have some assessment data viewable
- have students use it to profile some of their work
- and a few other things that I have probably forgotten to mention
- have it semi-private so that students and their parents are the main (only) users
These are some the options:
- Edmodo – can I do most of this in edumodo??
- A blog
- A Wiki
- A ning
- other suggestions?
So, what would you use? Which tool will make it fairly simple, keep it organised and not be too hard for parents to interact with?
Photo: source Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike 2.0 Generic license
Side-note: Wasn’t sure what to expect when I typed “help” into the Flickr Creative Commons search engine but there were an interesting range of images.
This could be an interesting task for students to do: with a digital camera take an image that depicts ‘help’, add it to VoiceThread (or blog page), describe your thoughts and invite others to respond.
