Feb 08 2007
Beyond Blogs
I use blogs for my classes. I have a main page and then separate pages for each of my classes. It works well for posting assignments and links to webpages and sometimes documents that my students need to use, but I want something more like an online classroom.
I’ve sent info about Moodle to my IT director to see if that is something we could host, but I’m looking for other ideas. My requirements are (in order of importance):
- Free
- I’d love something just online that doesn’t need to be hosted (in case I hear back from Mr. IT Guy that we can’t host anything)
- Something that would allow lessons to be posted with links to all sorts of things – webpages, documents, even document downloads
- Online quiz capability
- chat room – it would be cool to have a quiet day where the kids would have to contribute to a discussion by typing only
- monitored message board (this might not be a good idea – middle school kids think message boards are for writing silly things )
OK – thats all I can think of right now…feel free to add to your thoughts on what else I should have as well as any suggestions for how to accomplish this without creating my own web pages : )
