Before the workshop
if you have access to a computer, gather together as many of these tools as you feel comfortable with.
Here are some of the tools we can use:
Gmail
A Gmail account gives access to a wide range of Google products, freely available and especially suited to education, including:
Yahoo
A Yahoo account grants access to
Posterous
A Posterous account lets you
In 2013, Posterous was purchased by Twitter which, for whatever reason, killed off the service; for insight
https://www.theverge.com/2013/4/30/4281780/posterous-is-shutting-down-tomorrow-here-are-the-best-alternatives
Back-channels
Here are some software sites that students and teachers can use to contact one another at any time during a course, during or between online or face-to-fact classes
- A Skype account for Skype Group chat
- An Edmodo account for back channel chat, and communities; e.g.
- Twitter, of course, for
- Wallwisher - I'd almost forgot about this one (thanks Nicky for reminding me)
Wallwisher eventually changed its name to Padlet and is now (2020) free only for one wall.
Other useful sites and tools
These sites and tools can be used for gathering and disseminating information online during a course
PBworks reclaims URLs when they have not been revisited for a year.
This wiki was visited and altered by adding this text on March 4, 2020
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