Student-oriented platform needed

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Permalink Reply by Sholom Eisenstat on May 28, 2007 at 8:22am

The programming environment called SQUEAK (squeakland.org) includes objects which enable users to exchange their creations (ie.objects) in a virtual collaborative environment. Various students can be building objects which are then assembled into the finished 'program'.

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Permalink Reply by SusanTsairi on June 7, 2007 at 2:48pm

Sholom, SQUEAK looks really interesting, have you tried it?

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Permalink Reply by Skip Zilla on May 28, 2007 at 8:40am

Hans,
On brief inspection of their website, Skill2Skill appears to be a cooperative place for kids (and educators) to share knowledge and skills and to collaborate on investigating new learning initiatives together. I, for one, would love to see collaborative projects developed among kids who are divided from one another because of their parents' political and economic regimes, but whose peaceable and hopeful futures are linked to their connections with one another as citizens of the world.
Thanks for pointing out Skill2Skill.

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Permalink Reply by Ray Tolley on May 28, 2007 at 8:53am

Hi, Hans,

Have a look at: http://www.ll4schools.co.uk/

I'm looking at ti as far as multiple group blogs within a school, but I am sure that it could meet your needs,

Best Wishes,

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Permalink Reply by SusanTsairi on June 7, 2007 at 2:38pm

Hi Hans, I'm trying out ectolearning.com "Ecto is a hosted networked Personal Learning Environment (nPLE) that is focused on the student and is fully collaborative, where the learning content can be user-created, user-rated, shared and open."

Have opened a group there, under the name classroom20, in order to test the different tools. Anyone wishing to take a look - just go to ectolearning.com, register and enter the Join code: classroom20

Here is a link to the ecto help page which explains the different functions far better than I could.
http://www.ectolearning.com/Ecto2/FlatPage.aspx?p=xybupnndsy

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Permalink Reply by Duncan Zuill on August 16, 2008 at 12:45pm

Very good question. I've been working with Moodle (see moodle.org)
and if you would like to have a look once the development website is set up
then you can see peer assessment, wikis and so on all being tracked and recorded
securely.
I noticed Google Docs is doing pretty amazing things in schools in the United States.

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