Introduction to Digital Platforms

What
1. Set of Computer Application Heavily assisting in educational process
  1. Facilitates education, development and distribution of courses through Internet
2. Why
  1. Dealing with Gen Z
  2. Want to be engaged at all times
  3. Access to tech is much higher
    1. Second Nature - Social media
  4. Innovations in tech changed the way we live
    1. Changed the way knowledge is imparted
  5. Extension of a classrom
  6. Better interaction with students
  7. Can be self paced
3. Includes
  1. Learning Management Systems
    1. System used to plan, execute, assess specific learning process
      1. E-learning program helping in administration, documentation, tracking and recording
        Egs:- Google Classroom, MOODLE, Blackboard, Schoology, Canvas, Brightspace
  2. Virtual Classroom Tools
    1. Online Learning Environment
    2. live interaction between tutor and learners
    3. Egs - MOOCs, Online Degree Programs
Other Tools
1. Screen Sharing tools and Video Conference *
  1. Zoom*
  2. Impartus *
  3. Screen leap
  4. Quick Screen Share
  5. Skype* upto 50
  6. Google Hangout* upto 150 in chat and video 250
  7. Jitsi*
2. Online Whiteboards
  1. The Conceptboard
  2. Tutorroom Whiteboard
  3. Whiteboard Fox
  4. Real time Whiteboard
  5. Google - Jamboard
Digital Platforms
1. EDMODO
  1. Education tool connecting teacher and student
  2. Looks like a social network
  3. Teacher creates collaborative groups administers and provides educational material
  4. Measure student performance
2. Socrative
  1. Teacher create exercises or educational games
  2. Students solve using mobile devices
  3. Teacher can see results and modify lesson to make it more personal
  4. It is free
3. Blackboard
  1. Teacher add resources for student to access
  2. Content created outside and added to Blackboard
  3. Predicts which students are at risk and making early intervention possible
  4. Licensed - Paid
4. MOODLE (Modular Object Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment)
  1. Provides custom learning environment
  2. Students can submit assignments, take quizzes and interact with classmates
  3. Open Source
  4. Free upto 50 users
5. GOOGLE CLASSROOM
  1. Create class, post assignments, test, grade and communicate
  2. Free
  3. Easy User Interface
  4. Easy Accessibily
  5. Seamlessly uses other G suite products (spreadsheet, drive, etc)
6. Schoology
  1. LMS and free
  2. Allows teachers to create, distribute, give assemnts, track progress etc
  3. Got All features of Google classroom plus more features
  4. Organize content, embed multimedia, record audio/video, etc
7. Kahoot!
  1. Based on Games and questions
  2. Teacher can creater questionnaires, discussion or surveys
  3. Students can answer while playing and learning
8. Animoto
  1. Tool that allows you to create high quality videos - create audio visual content
9. Other Platforms
  1. Canvas , Blended Space, Nearpod, Projeqt, Haiku Learning, Canvas, Prezi , Goconqr
Add On Resources
1. TED ED
  1. Create and Access Educational Videos
2. Online Courses
  1. EdX
  2. Coursera
  3. MIT OpenCourseWare
  4. NPTEL/Swayam
3. For Computer Science - Marshmallow Coding
  1. Fun way to get students to learn Coding
4. Formative
  1. Create Assignment & Get live results from students
  2. Present students with real time feedback
5. Unicheck / Grammarly/ Search Engine Reports
  1. Plagiarism Checker
6. Wolfram Alpha
7. Languages
  1. Flipgrid
    1. Create videos
  2. Padlet
    1. Online Discussion board
    2. Great tool for pre-or post reading discussion /can be used for a warm up activity
  3. Podcasts and Voice recording
  4. Screencast -o-matic
    1. recording software

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