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 editing. Weakness: relatively simple formatting options.
2. Dropbox - an alternative to GoogleDocs. Strength: you can use your favorite word processor. Weaknesses: serial operation; not simultaneous editing; requires one's own word processor offline that is compatible with the ones used by other collaborators.
3. iskWiki! - for collaborative documentation of projects and for quickly publishing documents online. 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 a web-chat that enables you to catch up with what you missed while you weren't logged in. Disadvantage: expensive. UVLe already has group chat, which is free.

Shared Desktop Shared desktop applications - enable you show people certain things. Writing words about something is sometimes inferior to 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