Missing Educational Software
Here are the problems I have. I can have portfolio software,
but it doesn't really lend itself to community discussion or
providing feedback. I can have a CMS like Blackboard but it
cordons off all the classes from one another (and it's not very
good for providing feedback on student compositions). I can use
Google docs for feedback, though not for anything else. And
though I can use Google Docs, I'm not sure my instructors can
manage the various permission structures like sharing a folder
among a group of student users so they can upload and comment
on each others work. And I'm still left to figure out the rest
of it. WordPress might offer a similar kind of solution, where
a tech savvy instructor could get a community discussion, have
students get feedback, and set up individual portfolios. But
I'm not sure how it works as a program wide solution, and I
haven't begun to talk about assessment issues.
I used to feel somewhat befuddled by the absence of what seemed
like a fairly straightforward constellation of features for a
piece of educational software. After all, they were all
features that existed in one place or another already, for
example:
collaborative composing of text documents short, realtime
discussion a journal and portfolio a forum where you can follow
users and threads photo and video sharing
Source: Alex
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