VoiceThread was designed for online collaboration and, to some extent, peer-editing. It enables students to share assignments involving multiple types of media elements (written text, audio recordings, video, images), and it displays those elements in a manner that is easier to view as an integrated whole onscreen. Second, it allows users to record voice and video comments, as well as...
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Blended Learning Resources
Twiddla is a free, collaborative whiteboard that allows people to work together remotely and communicate via voice and chat. For math and science scholars, it also has a built-in formula editor. It requires no set-up or plug-ins, all of the site's features are completely internal. Users can also upgrade to paid packages to access additional features.
The online version of the sixth edition of this print resource has some great interactive tutorials and exercises for both ESL and non-ESL students. My favorite, for example, was an exercise targeting wordiness issues, which has students practice eliminating as many elements from a sentence as possible without altering the meaning. I always found this a difficult problem to help students with (in my non-writing courses), and I could see this as a way to give a targeted exercise to a student who...
Web site with great information for college writers (style guides, avoiding plagiarism, etc.), and some online tutorials or exercises that help students practice particular issues they are having with writing, including materials for college-prep and ESL writing.
A web-based information clearing house on education-related software and online resources, sponsored by Rice University. Instructors review subscription-based and open-source computer-based educational resources and write about how they have integrated them into courses. K-12 and college-level.