I am a teacher. I have just managed to get all my students to use Google Docs for papers and essays. Huge step for our Swedish schools. Anyhoo, I need more input, more constructive and crazy ideas on apps/tools I could use. Brainstorm! Pie to the winner of the wildest and craziest idea!
It doesn't have to be e-learning apps, just something wicked, easy, fun. Things YOU would have loved working with as a 15 y/o kid.
- Jesper Jazzper Isaksson
Ah, yes, RSS is a great sugestion. Good for practicing English aswell
- Jesper Jazzper Isaksson
I really want our school to use RSS. All assignments and announcements should be available via various RSS feeds. No excuse not to see them and notes home are automatic.
- Eric - Too Hot
Christopher: Yes, I have been playing around with it for a while and it is fun. I also like http://www.faceinhole.com/us/. Too bad yearbookyourself.com is not online until summer, I had huge plans for using it in my teaching.
- Jesper Jazzper Isaksson
Jeppe: not sure the ages of your students, for a great into to programming and building critical logic skills, checkout Scratch: http://scratch.mit.edu/
- Ryan Stanley
Ryan: Thanks for the ideas! I would love to set up Yammer, but it would be too difficult getting the email server/services to work properly with Yammer. Scratch looks really interesting though and I will have a closer look! Thanks a bunch!
- Jesper Jazzper Isaksson
But you cannot force your students to use Google Docs. It is against their personal interests... How about a son of a Yahoo employee who is in your class? He might not like to use Google.
- TrafficBug
Jeppe - Evernote. This is a students dream app.
- Russellreno
Also when I was a kid I would have loved stuff like Google Earth/Sky and Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope.
- Jason R. Hunter
As a teacher, this was made for you and your students, and it's a lot of fun. The developer is a nice guy, long time friend of mine. Don't hesitate to contact him if you have any questions about using it. http://2d.e-asm.org/
- April Russo
@April, wow, thanks! Looks really interesting! I will check it out asap!
- Jesper Jazzper Isaksson