Web 2.0 Tools

EDLD 5352

Web 2.0 Tools Collaboration

Noteapp.com

Noteapp.com is a website that is dedicated to collaboration by allowing teachers and students to create board templates for live communication from anywhere.   You can use it to conduct meetings with others directly from your workspace.   It is a great tool to use when you need to share quick information but can’t get everyone together.  This website even works with your smartphone because all you need is the url address.  Educators could utilize this tool to share ideas, etc.  It also is good for groups that have a hard time meeting in person since it is all online.  As a teacher, this would be something that I would use in my classroom to increase participation by giving students a platform for communication to share ideas, brainstorm, and answer my questions.   They may even remain anonymous if you allow it.  This is a good tool to use to help reluctant and/or struggling students get more involved in your classes.  It works similar to our Google doc except that the background is a cork board and everyone types on a virtual post-it note.    You can color-code your post-it note to identify yourself if desired.

Key attributes of Noteapp.com:

• Put all your information in one place
• Visually access your notes for quick editing and recall
• Share thoughts and brainstorm with others, directly from your workspace
• Create a shared space for educational information such as current issues, lesson plan ideas, and teacher/student/parent feedback
• Hold meetings from across the world and encourage all members' thoughts and ideas
• Collaborate from anywhere
• Create board templates to use for recurring and ongoing courses
• Elicit compelling feedback both during and after the course has finished

Increase class participation by giving students a platform for shared communication

Socrative.com

Socrative.com is a Web 2.0 tool that educators can use to create assessments online and then share them with other educators and/or students.  An important use of Socrative.com is that the other educators you share your documents with can collaborate with you to create and/or edit what you or they have shared.  For students, educators can create multiple-choice, true/false, or short answer assessments.   They can construct the assessment to be a formal test, quiz, pulse-check, or a game.  Newly created assessments are located under a “class room number” in the program.  That room number is what students use to check in to the teacher’s assessment.  Students will login under Socrates.com/student and teachers create their assessments under Socrates.com/lecturer.  Virtually any educator can implement this into their normal class routine which will integrate technology in a way more relevant to today’s technologically oriented learners.  It is also an easy way to assess students quickly because the results are calculated automatically.  Additionally, test results may be posted publicly for students, parents or any relevant stakeholder without identifying individual students.