A place to create a travel journal or to experience someone eles'e travels through text and images. Allows you to use maps, images, and text to tell your story. Share with others.
In a classroom: How?
Let students pick a destination and have them look through a journal. What places did they like, what places were missed. OR if students are lucky enough to take a journey have them use this tool to create a document of their trip.
Meebo is a program that allows real time social interaction for students and instructors to connect at anytime. Meebo is a free product and is easily set up and maintained with little effort. Meebo works with all popular chat applications such as twitter, facebook, and AIM…which allows participation from anywhere. (John)
In a classroom: How?
Meebo can be used as a side bar chat area during class for student to communicate and not disrupt the lecture. If the technology fails ex. Blackboard, the class could continue to use this chat function to communicate.
MindBites is a place on the web to learn directly from other real people and share what you know with the world. A self-publishing platform and social marketplace for instructional content, MindBites enables people to share their unique knowledge, skills and passions through audio and video lessons, earning money for themselves or for charity.(Tracy)
In the classroom: How?
MindMeister is an online graphical tool that allows you to build a mind map or a project or paper. By creating an account and sharing it, you can collaborate with others and share ideas,
In the classroom: How?
In a freshman seminar, have students create a goal setting mind map. What are you goals: short term, medium term, long term. Contributed by Sandy Gravley
M = Moodle
Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. Moodle is very customizable -- teachers can use Moodle to add online features such as Discussion Forums, Wikis, Quizzes, and Lessons to their face-to-face classes, or can use it for a class that is entirely online.
In the classroom: How?
Memoov.com is a free animation software. Students can create animated movies to share.
In the classroom: How?
Students can use animation to create reports, stories or examples to post an show in class or on class websites.
M = MyHappyPlanet
My Happy Planet.com is a social network set up to help match you with someone who speaks a language you want to learn. You communicate via the internet. The idea is to match up with someone wanting help with the language you can speak so that the learning is reciprocated.
In the classroom: How?
In a classroom there are obvious applications if you are teaching a particular language and want to encourage students to try out new skills. This would probably work best if pre-arranged or with adult students to avoid unintended consequences. Wanting to actually communicate with someone can provide a strong incentive to learning.
M = Mashup
Content aggregation technology. Three main types, consumer, data and enterprise; also business application available that integrates business and data services. Mashup(s) combine information and media from a variety of sources into one centralized (re)source.
In the classroom: How?
Ideal application for virtual or "brick and mortar" classroom; enables collection and integration of information resources into one central application that facilitates ease of access and is an expedient resource for research, etc. gf