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Description

Intended
User

Cost/Ads

Platform

Security
Access/
Admin
control

Creation
Higher
Level
Thinking

Social Edmodo
Networking

Personal
Learning
Network

Students,
Teachers,
Parents

Free

Cloud
Based

Moderator
invites
members to
join.

Social Kidblog
Networking

Social
networking
tool for
young
students: I
used it as
an online
reading
response
journal
Collaborativ
e work
space:
professional
development

Student
response
blog

Free for up
to four
classes

More of a
framework
or
organizing
tool.
Excellent
forum for
open-ended
response.
Students
respond to
each other
as well as
to teacher

Student,
teacher,
parents

Free

Mapping

Teachers
and
students

Free

Social Twitter
Networking

Mapping Google
Earth

Cloud
Based

Cloud
Based

Teacher
moderated
No email
needed

User can be
private, but
it limits
your
connectivity
in the
community.

Great
resource for
new ideas
and
approaches.

Product
accessibili
ty
Print,
email,
share
Very
accessible,
Facebook
type
format,
Very
accessible
and easy
to use.

Format is
somewhat
challenging
to begin.
Joining
groups and
developing
a network
takes time
and effort.
Cloud
Maps like
My maps
Google Map
based
Google docs can be
is a widely
platform
are shared
worked on
used
and ability to specific
collaborative application
to access
users.
ly like a
for

Google
maps
from
phones,
tablets,
etc.
makes it a
very
accessible
applicatio
n.
Coding Scratch

Coding
exploration
for children
and teens

Students

Free from
MIT

Cloud
based

Blogging
platform

Teachers
and
students

Another
free service
from
Google

Cloud
Based

Creation Explain
Screencastin Teachers
Everything g interactive and
whiteboard.
students
Teachers can
use to create
instruction
videos

5.99 on IOS
3.99
Android

Device
Based

Blog Blogger

Google doc.
Students
can add
markers that
encompass
photos,
links, video
to tell more
about what
happened at
that marker.
Students
will need an
account.
User name
and
password
required.
Email must
be verified.
Parents
email would
work.
Blogger is
administrat
or of the
site

Device
based
application

Awesome
creative tool
for students.
Students
can work on
the same
project as
different
characters.

Individual
output more
than
collaborative
space

directions
so easier
for many
non-tech
people to
try. Less
intimidating
because
they have
used it for
other
purposes.
Very user
friendly
with
excellent
help
available
on site.

Very user
friendly
with
multiple
templates
to choose
from.
Students
Simple yet
create to
somewhat
demonstrate intimidating
understandi in that
ng, Would
simplicity.
be great for
teamwork or Projects

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Curation Symbaloo

Portal that
directs user
to specific
web
addresses or
site.

Admin,
Teachers,
and
Students

Video Flocabular
Creation y

Library of
rap videos
with primary
source
photos or
film clips.
Interactive
sight that
allows
student or
groups of
student to
write and
produce
their own
rap video
about any
topic.
Twitter of
movie

Teacher
uses rap
videos in
classroom
to enrich
curriculum
.
Students
work in
groups or
individuall
y to create
their own
videos
using
original
rap music
provided.
Teachers,
Free App
students,

Video Vine
Creation

Free
account
limited.
Must be
installed on
each
device.
$35 Class
$120
School
$220
District
Per Year
Teacher
$96
School
$1600

Cloud
Based

Teacher or
administrat
or controls
the
webmixes
available to
students.

Cloud
Based

Teacher is
the
administrat
or and
controls
access to
site.

Cloud
Based

User
controls

and movies
can be
exported to
email and
YouTube.
Groups of
Very easy
students
to use and
could collect an
sources for
excellent
collaborative way to
work.
curate
sources for
students or
teachers.

Music and
help for
students to
write their
own rap
videos and
songs. This
is the
amazing
example I
showed in
my class.
https://www.
flocabulary.c
om/unit/ruby
bridges/vide
o
Shortness of
video clip

Very
accessible
for
teachers,
videos
organized
into subject
and time
period.
A
microphone
is needed
to record
student
raps in
class.
Very
accessible

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Twitter

Video I Movie
Creation

production.
Movies up to
6 second
long.

High quality
movie app
for IPhone or
I pad

My 19
year old
daughter
says no
one uses
it
anymore

Teachers
and
Students

video
production

forces user
to be
creative/thin
k ahead

due to APP
format.

Movies can
be sent via
text, email,
etc. and
could be
saved to a
central
location..
Dropbox,
school
server,
Evernote,
etc.

App is
$4.99 per
device

Apps are
installed
on
individual
devices.

User
controls
video
production

Templates to
make
movie/book
trailers.

Requires
higher-level
thinking,
creativity,
and
planning.
Requires
higher-level
thinking,
creativity,
and
planning.

Presentation Movie
Maker

To turn
videos and
photos into
movies.

Teachers
and
students

Included in
Windows
Essentials
Suite

Device
based

User
controls
video
production

Presentation Voicethrea
d

Ability to
add
voiceovers
to images or
movie
presentation
s

Teachers
or
Students

Single
educator
$79 per
year for 50
accounts

Cloud
based

Administrat
or has
editing
control.
No student
emails
necessary

Custom
web
addresses
to share
work
Could be
shared to a
video
sharing
platform
like Vimeo