8.3: Technologies for Digital Learning

Adaptive Learning

• Virtual classroom connecting groups or individuals with teachers via voice and video

• Audacity

• adjust to a learners needs as they progress through a digital learning experience

• DreamBox Learning

Internet Meeting

• Google Hangout

• Virtual bulletin boards on which teachers and students can post messages or comments and respond to others

• Sumdog

• Interactive virtual meeting place, which may include voice, video shared whiteboard, and file sharing for interactive teaching and learning

Podcasts

• Shared collaborative activity and resources created and edited by a group of student and teacher contributors on a topic

• Audacity

• Audio recordings stored online and played back via Internet players’ software used for lectures, commentary, feedback, and music

• Zoom

Email

• Blackboard Discussion Board

• Asynchronous one-to-one or one-to-many communication via virtual mail; many free e-mail sites available to teachers and students

• Video stored online and played back via Internet players’ software used for lectures, documentaries, experiments, and student presentations

• Gmail

Telephony

• Full-featured systems to manage and deliver all components of online learning to students in distance and blended classrooms

• Skype

• Edmodo

• Online phone connection to communicate with students or for peer-to-peer communication

Chat

• Real-time communication space in which teachers and students can communicate via text and, in some cases, voice

• Kidblog

• hared collaborative activity and resources created and edited by a group of student and teacher contributors on a topic

• Flash Chat

Blogs

• Virtual reflection activity, also called journals or web logs, to share views and resources and /or comment on others’ sharing

• Kidblog

• Online resource to create private social networks for students to share and collaborate in a virtual classroom space

• Sumdog

Video Conferencing

• Virtual classroom connecting groups or individuals with teachers via voice and video

• Virtual reflection activity, also called journals or web logs, to share views and resources and /or comment on others’ sharing

• Flash Chat

• Zoom

Vodcasts

• Audacity

• Video stored online and played back via Internet players’ software used for lectures, documentaries, experiments, and student presentations

• Apple iMovie

• Interactive virtual meeting place, which may include voice, video shared whiteboard, and file sharing for interactive teaching and learning

Wikis

• Apple iMovie

• Real-time communication space in which teachers and students can communicate via text and, in some cases, voice

• PBWorks

• Shared collaborative activity and resources created and edited by a group of student and teacher contributors on a topic