- online anonymous polling
- voice over the internet -- great for
having remote guest speakers or remote student presentations
- application sharing -- a remote student
can demonstrate something on their computer such as a Word
document, a PowerPoint presentation, an Excel spreadsheet, etc.
- "hand-raise" icons, ordered
- text chat
Apple Remote Desktop
- http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Products/SynchronEyes+Classroom+Management+Software/
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http://www.apple.com/remotedesktop/
- monitor student screens
- control student computers
- administer and mark quizzes automatically
- project the information on your computer to all student computers (excellent when the material / website has information too small to read from a screen at the front of the room)
Web sites that allow "open" editing -- users can add / edit content without a password, etc.
- Wiki is Hawaiian for "quick"
- Wikipedia (free encyclopedia) www.wikipedia.org
- Blog searching: http://www.technorati.com (has about 2 billion links, 27.5 million sites)
- Free hosted blog services
- del.icio.us (shared bookmarks)
- FaceBook (online directory that connects people at schools -- college and high school) www.facebook.com
- Flickr (photo-sharing -- can annotate individual parts of the photographs also)
- MIT OpenCourseware initiative: >500 courses (syllabi, tests, exam solutions, assignments)
- South African Curriculum: online at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/SA_NCS
- WikiBooks (collection of open-content textbooks). http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page (currently 13,981 book modules written by volunteers)
- FURL: http://www.furl.net/
(social online bookmarking
- saves URL and a picture of the page)
- searchable