Everything+You+Need+to+Teach+and+Learn+Online

There's plenty of free and easy tools out there that can help us and our students to learn... so many it can be a little overwhelming. Take it one step at a time. Choose one tool that can help //you// in //your// current situation:


 * Guideline criteria for selecting tools - Why we reckon it's best to stick to free, easy, web-based tools for your blend of learning.
 * Weblogs in Education - Workshops and resources to help you get started with your own website, enabling communication, reflection and knowledge construction both inside and outside the classroom!
 * [|Live video conference web-lessons] - Most video-conference tools such as Skpye and WebEx require a download and installation to use. Launchpad is a simple video conference solution built specifically for teaching online.
 * Setting up free email groups for class - An email group is probably the easiest way to facilitate class interaction without needing to be in class.
 * Learning with a News Reader - Browsing the web can take time... here we find out how we can keep up-to-date and save time!
 * Sourcing content - You may find from time to time that you just don't have the best resource that there possibly is. Have a little look around from to time, there's a lot of people writing to the Internet these days!
 * [|Using Wikipedia in a classroom] - Will Richardson refers to a lesson plan for media literacy using [|wikipedia.]

For an extensive list of what's available, check out [|Everything You Need To Teach and Learn Online] And if that wasn't enough Alan Levine's list for collaborative tools is pretty extensive!

[|Gnomz] comic reproduced with permission from [|D'Arcy Norman]