Online Teaching 

see also: Online Textbooks -- Online Tools -- Wikis

• 8 Tips for Successful Online Course Facilitation
  A detailed blog post by educator and technologist Miguel Guhlin.
• 32 Ways to Use Google Apps in the Classroom
  Online presentation about ways to use Google Docs, Spreadsheets, Calendar, and other tools to facilitate teaching and learning.
• Bloust
  Free websites for teachers and students. Impressive features set includes polls, document library, RSS feeds, podcasts, blogs, translator, teacher forums, calendar, announcements, separate class pages, and more.
• ClassJump
  Another place which offers free webpages for teachers. Includes ability for students to upload homework, class messageboard, calendar, more.
• Co-ment
  Annotation tool. "Create, edit, share, collaborate and annotate text documents online." Could be a useful tool for analysis of literary or historical texts, as well.
• Collaborate Classroom
  "Collaborize Classroom is designed to complement classroom instruction and engage students in online activities, assignments and discussions that allow for deeper participation inside and outside the classroom."
• CourseLab
  "CourseLab is a powerful, yet easy-to-use, e-learning authoring tool that offers programming-free WYSIWYG environment for creating high-quality interactive e-learning content..." This is a free downloadable program.
• Course Sites
  Free online class pages from Blackboard. "You can create CourseSites to post course materials, communicate with students, encourage collaboration, monitor performance, and manage grades."Allows up to 5 courses per instructor.
• Diipo
  "Diipo connects you the teacher with your students by making it easy to communicate with your class. Diipo also connects you with other educators and your class with other classes."
• Edmodo
  A micro-blogging (Twitter-like) site specifically for educators and students.
• Ed.VoiceThread
  "A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments. ... Ed.VoiceThread is a secure K-12 network for students and teachers ..."
• Fakebook
  " 'Fakebook' allows teachers and students to create imaginary profile pages for study purposes. Use 'Fakebook' to chart the plot of a book, the development of a character, a series of historical events, the debates and relationships between people, and so on!"
• Gaggle.net
  Email, message boards, blogs, chat rooms for teachers and students. Basic free (ad-supported) level and more advanced features and storage with paid ad-free subscriptions.
• Glogster for Educators
  "A Glog is an interactive visual platform in which users create a 'poster or web page' containing multimedia elements including: text, audio, video, images, graphics, drawings, and data."
• Jog The Web
  "A web-based tool that allows anyone to create a synchronous guide to a series of web sites. Its step by step approach of taking viewers through web sites allowing the author to annotate and ask guiding questions for each page is unique."
• LearnHub
  "LearnHub is for people who love learning and sharing knowledge with others. It is a set of tools that make learning online fun and engaging, and teaching online easy and effective." Free.
• Moodle
  "A software package for producing internet-based courses and web sites." Moodle is a very popular free alternative to programs such as Blackboard.
• RCampus
  "RCampus is a comprehensive Education Management System and a collaborative learning environment. At RCampus, you can do all your school-related work from building personal and group websites to managing your courses, eportfolios, academic communities, and much more." Includes nice rubric creation and sharing tool.
• Skype
  Annotated list of links to resources for using Skype in the classroom.
• Tildee
  "Tildee is a free tool to help you create and share instantly and easily tutorials on any subject."
• Udutu
  Free online do-it-yourself course authoring software, based on templates. Easy to use.
• Voicethread 4 Education Wiki
  Help and resources in using VoiceThread in educational settings.
• Weebly
  "Weebly is perfect for creating classroom websites, student e-portfolios, and websites for assigned projects. Our drag & drop website editor is stunningly simple to use, and appropriate for use with students of all ages."
• WiZIQ
  "A platform for anyone and everyone who wants to teach or learn live, online. With a virtual classroom, educational content and a session scheduler..."

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