Week 9 – Online Learning Tools

The course I tutor on uses Padlet to create Ideas Walls, where students and tutors can share links, videos, images and comment on each other's ideas. It is a bit ugly, but I am yet to find an online resource that isn't! Plus it isn't as ugly as Trello, which is my worst nightmare. I have inherited the use of this, so I'm not sure if this is what I would have picked.

I liked Dario's recommendation of Miro as an alternative, but I feel that has the potential to become messy when used by larger (or overly enthusiastic) cohorts, especially when they are all working on different projects.

No one has mentioned Canvas! Does that count?? It is quite cumbersome but I think that anything that needs to facilitate so many different needs and users is going to have to be that way. 

As an alternative to Zoom, we use Whereby as a video conferencing platform. The benefit is that you can set a personalised room that you simply use each time, rather than having a different random generated url  each time like Zoom. It is aesthetically a little nicer on the eye, but it doesn't seem as easily integrated with other platforms (such as Slack).