tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3012403908117088906.post5176979642094178433..comments2011-09-04T18:47:44.911-04:00John Mikulskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14649751971725854166noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3012403908117088906.post-84495069859065525522011-09-04T18:47:44.911-04:002011-09-04T18:47:44.911-04:00My name is Hunter Hall, I am an Elementary Education major at the University of South Alabama. I was assigned to read your blog and truly enjoyed learning more ways to online collaborate. As a future educator when I hear the words online collaboration, Goggle Docs and wikis are also the first things to pop into my mind. I strongly feel that all educators should be presented with the knowledge of your 5 lesser-known tools for possible use in a classroom. I have never heard of Edmodo until now. To gain a personal understanding of this tool I created a teacher account. Right from the beginning I felt as if it was an extremely simple tool that can be easy for anyone to navigate through. After exploring Edmodo I found multiple things about the site in which I loved. The calendar is brilliant, I feel that this could help parents and students keep up with upcoming events, tests, and quizzes. Especially the children, kids love technology so instead of using pen and paper to write down things in a planner they may keep up with things easier. BoostCam incorporated into a classroom I feel could benefit a child tremendously! Explaining how BoostCam works to parents would be a very simple task, all it requires is typing in the proper URL address its that easy. I think this could help parents who work full time jobs keep up with their child’s academics by BoostCamming parent/teacher conferences. I think this could allow a positive atmosphere in a classroom keeping everyone up to date with their child’s personal issues. I chose to explore ietherpad, using this tool I think could truly help student’s grades for personal and group assignments increase. I personally loved being exposed to the Crocodoc tool. I think it is awesome; I am always searching and eager for feedback after writing a paper or an assignment. This tool could allow students not only to receive help on their assignment errors but give students to desire to learn how to correct grammatical mistakes! WallWisher, at first I was a little confused about this tool but after viewing the demo I would consider using this tool in my future classroom. It makes sharing questions, ideas, and examples of assignments or homework in a fun way. Thank you for sharing this information I hope to use them in my future classroom! Here are links to my personal class blog, the class blog, and my twitter address if you would like to respond! <br /><a href="http://HallHunteredm310.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">My blog</a> <a href="http://edm310.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">My class blog</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/hunterlyndsay" rel="nofollow">My twitter</a>Hunter Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17167419064239426872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3012403908117088906.post-4372675602175918902011-08-27T01:04:50.017-04:002011-08-27T01:04:50.017-04:00Thanks for your post, I didnt know about them and I already check edmodo and wallwhiser, and I hope to use them soon with my students.<br />Thanks for sharing that information<br /><br />http://elteacherjulian.blogspot.comJulián VMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14979472790988764243noreply@blogger.com