This site is not for students, it is for teachers. Every teacher nowadays needs a network of resources to keep pace with the advances in teaching and technology. Here they show you how to do it. Creating a Personal Learning Network involves finding and keeping track of valuable resources that you can go back to when you need them. That is what I am doing here with the 100 Tools, in a way, building my own PLN.
The Cutting Edge Classroom is a small blog by an educator with many ideas about using technology in the classroom. Here he talks about how to use PageFlakes and NetVibes, two of our recent tools.
Netvibes is another site where you can put together content from many other web pages without knowing how to make a web page. It is really easy, and, like PageFlakes, has a web community that discusses what is available and what works.
This is one of the most transparent web services I know. It was hard to find their logo, and when you set up a page for yourself, their content is only at the bottom of the page.
Have you ever wanted to put together lots of material from different web sites, and put it all on one page, so that students can access it easily? PageFlakes allows you to put together text, media and web pages all in one place. It is like your own content aggregator. (A content aggregator uses information from other web pages, and are more popular than the web pages themselves.) It also has a built-in community of other people making aggregated content. They often help each other out.
Digital StoryTelling is a great site created for a high school class in the US. The videos these students have made for class projects are really exceptional. This proves that the technology is cheap enough and good enough that now the only limitation is the imagination. This site helps with that, by outlining the roles of the students in the group.
These 4 roles exactly parallel the groups I developed for my Radio Production and Podcasting Courses, and then for my Video Production Course. They make sense and allow students to concentrate on different parts of the production process. I usually try to do more than one project in a semester, so as to allow the students to try different roles. It works well.