Piazza, which means plaza in Italian, is a virtual public square online where students can come together to ask and answer questions and explore under the guidance of their instructors.
Piazza makes it possible for instructors to easily answer questions, edit content, and track student participation.
With Piazza, manage out-of-class student questions and answers. Students can post questions on the class dashboard. Then, in the manner of a wiki, students can collaboratively answer the questions subject to instructor moderation and editing. Students can also post private questions that can only be seen by the class instructor.
Instructors retain full ownership and rights to anything they submit or post. Piazza is FERPA-compliant and protects the privacy of students.
Piazza can be used anywhere with free iOS and Android apps available.
You can use Piazza free with no commitment needed and nothing to install.
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Googlio is a free portfolio webspace created by mashing up blog, wiki, social networking, and other Google web tools for students and teachers to collect, publish, reflect, and connect digitally.
Googlios brings together free Google tools and ePortfolios. It is meant to be a collection of resources for using ePortfolios in education.
Lessonopoly is a free website designed to facilitate teachers organization of activities both in and out of the classroom, creation and sharing of lesson plans, and connecting to other teachers in online communities.
Started in 2007, Lessonopoly was developed by the Silicon Valley Education Foundation which works across all 33 school districts in Santa Clara County (CA) to ensure public schools have the resources and expertise they need.
Lessonopoly was created and refined with input from teachers and strives to deliver a set of effective and easy-to-use, easy-to-learn tools for teachers.
Classroom tools available to registered teachers are a planning calendar, a personal lesson plan library, and a blogging tool. Resources to connect with other teachers include groups and a wiki tool.
Browse or search the thousands of available lesson plans by subject or grade level. You can even submit your own lesson plans to the Lessonopoly library.
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DiRT brings together reviews of software that can help researchers, whether they are professors, students, teachers, librarians or others, do their work better. DiRT serves as a central resource for information about tools useful to scholarship.
DiRT Home Page
Reviews are clear and straightforward. Tools are categorized so that researchers can identify relevant and useful ones more easily. Software reviewed includes tools to …
help you manage and share bookmarks
create bibliographies
analyze and visualize texts
brainstorm, collaborate
collect data
and much more
Editor's Picks Page
Sections in DiRT are assigned an editor who is responsible for adding links to and reviews of tools and ensuring the quality of content in that category. The DiRT team currently includes academic librarians with expertise in the humanities, science, and business and they welcome new contributors. DiRT Two-Minute Tour
DiRT generally prefers tools that are free and/or open source, but they also cover some commercial software. Visit The Dirt on DiRT blog.
DISCLOSURE OF MATERIAL CONNECTION: http://cmp.ly/0
Nota lets you mash your ideas and media together with others in a dynamic whiteboard wiki. Using photos, videos, and other web content you can quickly create multimedia presentations on your own or with more than 50 colleagues.
Nota has been used for educational purpose as an online collaboration tool that allows students and teachers to quickly create and share virtually any kind of document such as presentations, notebooks, reports , artwork, anything. Using Nota’s toolset, users can integrate text, video, maps, clip art, photos from web albums or on a local computer, or images from Flickr, and other sources. Users can then embed their work in webpages, wikis, or blogs, and can share and collaborate with other people. There's no limit to what students can express using Nota.
It’s free of charge, no software to purchase or install, and because Nota’s online, collaborative and real-time, student reactions, responses, and ideas can be integrated live into the document.
Unique Features
Users can create visual presentations or notebooks in literally minutes using any web browser.
Design and user interface are simple, intuitive, and can be mastered in minutes.
Instantly combine virtually any kind of material, from any source.
Materials can be shared and edited simultaneously with group members.
Work is auto-saved and immediately published.
Ideal for group projects and hands-on instruction – incorporate student responses into material as you develop it.
Creativity
Use the text tool to add titles, messages, and comments to your creations. Insert photos, videos or flash from your own files or Flickr, YouTube, Google Maps, Wikipedia articles, and more. Use the drawing tools to work on any object in the workspace. Upload PDFs, document files, and audio for sharing.
Collaboration
Create private or public notebooks and invite one, two, or dozens, of people to collaborate on a Nota project. Add as many pages as you want to a notebook.
Wikis are simple Web pages that let you collaborate with others. A wiki can be an easy way to get your syllabus online and a tool to let your students collaborate online.
Learn how wikis work and how to use them in the classroom at this Atomic Learning site:
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