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1. [[image:weebly ed.gif]]
==== Weebly (http://education.weebly.com) is a simple website creator. Websites can be created for any assignment or classroom activity and has a collaboration capability that encourages social construction of knowledge. Weebly uses a drag and drop editor platform to support its simplistic function and enables authors to backup the files used in the website through a downloadable zip folder. ==== ==== Limitations of Weebly are that the free level does not allow for insertion of video files, embedded documents, SWF files and audio files, thereby reducing its functionality with students. There is a limit of 10 websites per account and even on a paid Pro account (US$2-5/month) the number of students is limited 40. ====

2. [[image:Glogster_EDU_Logo.png width="419" height="86"]]
==== Glogster (http://edu.glogster.com) is an interactive poster presentation tool that encourages presentations using multimedia, including videos, audio and images, with text enabling a range of creativity to occur that is not targeting on type of learner but providing a platform for all learners. Posters can be shared online or embedded into a wiki or LMS. The program is easy to use for both teachers and students in particular if the teacher pays for an account (US$30-99/yr) that enables student, class and project management (my favourite is the reset password aspect). ====

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==== Limitations is the annual cost associated with Teacher accounts, the uploading of images is slow (although is dependent on their size) and the program is geared towards K-12 rather than education in general (such as higher education). ====

3. [[image:educreations.png width="240" height="181"]]
==== Educreations (https://www.educreations.com) is a free video screen capture content creator on an iPad platform, where the video tutorials can be shared with select students or the public. There are many positive aspects of this program, but most importantly it allows teachers to demonstrate hand written concepts using the iPad as the recording device, for pen strokes and audio. Another positive, is the online management system enables videos to be embedded or shared through a link to the students, so videos can be disseminated beyond their creation point. This connects to the third positive aspect, that by using the management system, teachers can create a course and send a access course code to students, where by the videos can be accessed either through a iPad or alternatively online. ==== ==== The limitations of Educreations is that the functionality is limited to text and images on the screen only (although this does include PowerPoint slides as images accessed through Drop Box), the maximum recording length is 30 minutes and the presentation can only be embedded into LMS or websites if it is made public. ====