3. Avatars A character that represents an online user. Avatars are becoming increasing popular in classroom settings. Classroom Usage: Avatars can be used for professional development, giving virtual tours, in blogs and forums, and role playing exercises. They can also be used as teacher assistants in elementary schools to give positive feedback to students. Students are creating their own avatars which they can take with them as they explore websites and virtual reality games online. This allows students to be hands-on learners instead of passive learners.
8. Pronto: Instant Collaboration for Education: Audio/Video Conferencing, Instant Messaging, Chat, Sharing, Whiteboard Usage, University Accessibility and Notifications
9. Voice: promotes vocal instruction, collaboration, coaching, and assessment
10. Create: Quickly and easily convert your Microsoft Word documents into content for your online courses.
11. Diploma: create, publish and print quizzes Classroom Usage: Wimba can be used to do online discussions, learning or testing for 1. small groups 2. individual students at different schools 3. students that work at satellite schools
14. Connected to Gmail or iGoogleClassroom Usage: Students can do projects or study with students from other classes. Teachers, Volunteers, Parents could read books to the younger students in real time since they cannot be at school everyday. It would make give parents that extra time with their children.
19. Other: Voicemail, Call forwarding, Call TransferClassroom Usage: Teachers can implement lessons that can include real life characters of the community. These professionals can be “skyped” during the lesson to share their knowledge or experiences with the students.
23. Other: Connect News, Online Events, White PapersClassroom Usage: This program seems to be more adequate for older students. However, teachers could use the eLearning or Webinars to teach other classes at the same time or professional development could be held from one school to the next and no one has to leave their base school.
30. WikiClassroom usage: Moodle can be used to post homework assignments, guidelines for projects, rubrics, and other helpful items within the forums. Using email and blogging, teachers can provide homework help for their students in real time. Moodle can also be used in the classroom to grade assignments and quizzes, and to provide immediate feedback to the teacher.