Week 9, Online Enhancing Learing Tools

Dear all,

Google is setting an outstanding example with tens of globally free web-based applications such as documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and forms. In addition to several types of wiki sites offered by Google, the essential online office suite that requires nothing but the web browser provides the whole educational community with priceless opportunity.

For example, the project wiki template fantastically fit the groups/team work requirements. With information page about the project team, discussion section, time trackers for members, updates, and many customisable to any teacher's needs, there is no doubt that wiki sites cover all the project areas. It also gives the most active members the chance to contribute even more than what is expected from them, freeing them from traditional project/lesson/participation barriers.

I admire Google for coming up with lots of new creative employments of internet technology and making it within the reach of everybody worldwide. Our role should be making the best use of them.

Best wishes,
Amjad