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February 5, 2014
Love seeing other's thoughts and ideas.
Love having a spot for my Speech and Debate students to share ideas for pieces and cases.
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December 27, 2013
Simple tool for fast collaboration without frills or distractions.
Corkboardme is a simple way to have students collaborate online in groups and provides a simple tool to display notes and images. The site is simple, although not always intuitive to use. Some students struggled with some of the technology embedded in the site in using it, but once students got the hang of it they used it fasted than my teaching colleagues did! It serves well as something that can be used as a digital whiteboard for students or for a teacher looking to share resources as well. Unfortunately without the paid version you canot easily embed the site in a website or wiki for public viewing, but students can access it thorough shared access in an account. It helps that the information on the cork board can be exported using CSV. It would also help to have some support materials for general questions although honestly once students played with it a bit they had it up and running. I like this tool for teaching because it gives visual access to materials and an opportunity to collaborate online as a group.
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