A member of teacher staff came to me this week after half her students didn't attend her lesson because of the snow. Her comment was "I wish we had moodle, I could have just added all my handout, typed some extra notes and had a virtual lesson instead".
I have sent her off to explore the BOX resource - but am asking the questions - is there something better out there that I don't know about? Any suggestions greatfully received.
Thanks
Sharron in snowy Cumbria.
There are plenty of ways to share resources and materials on-line - Google Drive, Box, Dropbox and many others including, of course, Blogger which I using here now.
ReplyDeleteIt may not be necessary to complicate things with log-ins but if confidentiality is important then, if you know everyone's e-mail addresses, access to files or areas can be restricted to just a particular group or even individual.
If a group could all have Google+ accounts then putting them in a Circle would make that easier too and Hangouts in G+ are like Skype, providing another way to communicate face-to-face (but beware strange things on the wall or in the video surroundings that some students may have!!)
Moodle's fine but is often providing not much more than a list of documents they have to open or presentations to be downloaded, opened, viewed. Most day-to-day materials like that can be far better shared as 'web' spaces or true on'line items rather than mere links to things.
Just some thoughts.