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Seven e-Learning and Teaching Resources
21 July 2009, 2:19 pm

While the down economy continues to hurt funding to our schools, more and more teachers are looking to web-based services to help educate their students. Whether it's through open resource projects like CK-12, virtual classrooms like those in Second Life, or through the repurposing of tools like Twitter, millions of teachers are finding innovative resources to engage their students. If you're a teacher, here are seven great tools to get you started.

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2. Edutopia: The George Lucas Educational Foundation launched Edutopia in the hopes of creating educational best practices for multimedia in the classroom. The site includes online polls, curated blogs, assessment tools and a dedicated magazine for educators at the K-12 levels. The 2009 Webby Award winning site's best content is in its library of high-production videos for teachers and educators.

3. LearnHub: LearnHub is a network where members can create their own communities, share lessons, chat, create tests and tutor each other online at no cost. Schools create their own virtual classrooms where students complete assignments, play games and share photos and text. One of the great features of this site is that the site's report generator allows teachers to track users' progress. While the content is not as in-depth as Scitable's, this is a good site for standardized test preparation and basic K-12 education exercises. For more examples of test preparation sites, see our RWW list of resources.

4. Moodle: Moodle is a free open-source course management platform designed to help teachers create better online resources. Microsoft Education Labs recently announced a new Live@edu plug-in for Moodle. Now in addition to providing lesson plan, assignment and quiz-making tools for teachers, schools also gain access to Outlook Live for e-mail, Office Live Workspace for document sharing, Windows Messenger for chat and Windows Live SkyDrive for 25 GB of storage. This tool is slightly more advanced than some of the others in the industry, but it does offer a number of scalable solutions.

5. Edmodo: Edmodo is a private micro-blogging service for schools that allows teachers to edit privacy options within their virtual classrooms. Educators generate a join code and students log-in to chat, link to files, share notes and check their collective calendars for upcoming exams, quizzes and Pro-D days. While some of the other tools we've presented offer an open-access learning environment, this invite-only service offers students the chance to utilize web-based multimedia tools while allowing teachers to control an online discussion's security.

6. YouTube Edu: YouTube Edu allows students and educators to access lectures from leading educators across the country. For example, Yale and Brandeis University professors upload their lessons for public enjoyment. One of the most popular Channels is the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning - a collaboration launched by the Indian Institutes of Technology and Science in Bangalore.

7. ESL Video: ESL Video allows language educators to create quizzes from virtually any video on the internet. From here they can embed their quizzes into their classroom sites or redirect students to the ESL Video domain. Teachers tailor their video quizzes to specific learning units or create simple vocabulary quizzes like the one I made below using YouTube videos. While this tool may not be as sophisticated as some of the above services, its merit comes from the fact that teachers can incorporate pop culture products into their lesson plans with very little effort. Judging by the fact that the below Miley Cyrus video has more than 92 million YouTube views, teachers may be able to harness this tool to ignite a love of learning.

Miley Cyrus 7 Things Quiz  

Let's be honest here, you're the educators! If you've got your own favorite resources, add them in the comments below.

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[morrisbryan]

Schools create their own virtual classrooms where students complete their photo work, play and share and text. One of the great features of this site is the site report generator allows teachers to monitor the progress of users.

[jaysontailor]

Hi,
        There are various persons who are try to know what e-learning is.? E-learning is the computer and Many Higher educational institute mainly for profit organize such e-learning classes. Some non-profit organizations also offer such facilities to their student. In some countries its a new way so student enjoy their study with the help of e-learning.
E-learning is increasingly being utilized by students who may not want to go to schools due to severe allergies or other medical issues.

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[taylorbaynton]

Model of the 19th century pattern, our education system is considered to be obsolete and out of month. Some people think that this is stifling and hinder creativity, which is one of the goals of educating people. Mainly focused on academics, our education system the traditional practice of imparting knowledge to our younger generation is just the hole has grown up, have been accustomed to interactive entertainment.

At school, these young students often engage in interactive media at home, sit still, and learning - has now become a strange environment. Therefore, as students began to feel bored from the set of classroom activities. Worst of all, their learning curve ground into a stop.

[DanielClark]

Class website is a abundant and simple way for agents to facilitate online learning. While still captivation the acceptable class, agents accept the befalling to broadcast on the website for added educational materials, and even homework.

[gklpvm]

E-learning is a best way to teach the students.. youtube edu will be very helpful to the students.. and photo work, notes everything ll be given by e-notes or videos is very best way of teaching.. students can easily understand that.....

[gklpvm]

good way of learning