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7. E-LEARNING & ONLINE COURSE DEVELOPMENT: d) BUILD YOUR OWN ONLINE CLASSROOM

(VLEs, PODCASTS, AUDIOVIDEO STREAMING)

 

FREE IMAGE RESOURCES


Moodle.org

  • A free open source management tool for online learning - a free VLE

Internet Classroom Assistant from Nicenet

  • Free and ready to use VLE
  • Create your own classroom by filling in a form
  • Conferencing
  • Scheduling

  • Document sharing
  • Personal messaging
  • Link sharing
  • Private and password protected

skype.com

  • wonderful tools for global chat and picture sharing of all kinds

Website tools

about.com

very helpful for business websites, includes:

Building Web Pages with Page Breeze

  • free website builder
  • easy to use - just like typing in Word
  • what you see is what you get, but code view, too

Building Web Pages with Composer

  • Free website builder (but not included in recent versions of the browser e.g. Netscape 8)
  • Easy to use - just like typing in Word

Web Centre Resources from University of Leicester

  • All kinds of extremely useful resources

Podcasting -Wikipedia

  • all about podcasting and its history

Yahoo podcasts

  • find podcasts and listen online or download them

Podcasting for ELT

British Council & BBC

  • how you can use podcasts for teaching English

Podcasting Tools

  • everything you need to know about how to create a podcast

Free website hosting & chat room etc from Bravenet

  • free hosting
  • free bulletin board
  • free chatroom
  • free guestbook etc
     

Bravenet - Resources

excellent site for more advanced users
  • find code to put in current date
  • crazy mouse effects
  • website optimisation ... etc.
     

DIY CALL

from parapal-online.co.uk

  • free webspace providers evaluated + lots of other very useful help

The AWLA E-Learning System

developed by

Pedro P. Sanchez Villalon, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

  • A very interesting, useful virtual environment that enables collaborative writing

For more information, please see the powerpoint presentation below given at the CLiP Conference in Florence (December 2003) by: Pedro Pablo Sanchez Villalon, Manuel Ortega & Asuncion Sanchez Villalon

Evolving to Ubiquitous E-learning Environments: a Collaborative Writing Scenario

 

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