Teaching Tools

Tools make good teachers even better.

Learning Management System

1. UVLe (uvle.up.edu.ph) is an online course management system that helps teachers run courses from a single site. UVLe's advantages | Why UVLe is a superior system

Collaborative Writing

1. GoogleDocs enables groups to collaborate on documents "privately" online. Strength: simultaneous (online) editing. Weakness: relatively simple formatting options. It should, however, be sufficient for most word processing requirements.
2. Dropbox is an alternative to GoogleDocs. Strength: you can use your favorite word processor. Weaknesses: serial operation; does not simultaneous editing without causing conflicts of versions; requires one's own word processor (offline) compatible with the ones used by other collaborators.
3. iskWiki! - for collaborative documentation of projects and for quickly publishing documents online. On the other hand, UVLe already has a wiki that students and teachers can use.

Online Chat
UVLe already has an online chat that can be archived for later retrieval.

1. Campfire is an alternative web-chat that enables you to catch up with what you missed while you weren't logged in. Disadvantage: expensive, separate platform. UVLe already has group chat, which is free.

Shared Desktop
Shared desktop applications enable you to show people certain things remotely. Writing words about something is sometimes less effective than just showing it to people.

Project Management
Project management application can help track and manage complex projects.

1. Fogbugz

See Also

• UVLe
• Technology integration in teaching and learning