Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Weebly, Zoho Show, and SchoolTube

Not just more made-up words that will confuse my non-teacher friends and family members!

I'll start with school tube, as that is a site I had registered for and used in the past. This was a great resource when I wanted a place to post my videos from my summer trip to Ghana to share with my students. I knew that it was a much more controlled environment so I wouldn't have any hesitation about the "suggested videos" that come up after mine is done playing.

Next, I checked out Weebly. I've played around with a number of website builders (and have probably started an ACMS Student Council website in five different places because of it). I liked the looks of many of the pre-made templates, and it seemed fairly user-friendly. I keep telling myself that I need to learn more about html... but until then, this seems like a great option!

Finally, Zoho Show seemed interesting. I've heard alot about zoho as a comparison to google docs, so when I heard about their presentation tool, I was intrigued. Anything to get students away from the same ol' powerpoint seems like a good idea to me, though this did feel eerily similar to powerpoint. The benefits of having this free, online resource, however, is very nice.

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