Hi blackeyez readers!
I hope you enjoyed Easter's holiday, nice to see again. Today, we are going to evaluate and talk about some E-Learning tools, in the task 5. I have decided to choose the tool "Padlet". Now, I are going to evaluate it.
I am going to evaluate this tool that we can use as teachers with our students. This is made for creating some collaborative walls in different formats.
Firstly, I am going to talk about some advantage, this tool can be scaled to accommodate any size class with the flexibility to create smaller sub-groups or communities of practice because is a collaborative tool.
The tool has an interface that may be confusing to either instructor or learner, this can be a bit limited because for using some parts of this app, you must pay.
It allows users to communicate through different channels (audio, visual, textual) and allows for non-sequential, flexible/adaptive engagement with the material, and you don't require special equipment, only a device with online access.
Related to technical, it can be embedded as an object via HTML code, other thing is that you can use this with any standard, up-to-date browser. It does not need to download additional software or browser extensions.
In the mobile design part, we can see that this tool can be accessed, either through the download of an app or via a mobile browser, regardless of the mobile operating system and device. There is little to no functional difference between the mobile and the desktop version, regardless of the device used to access it.
It works well, in general, in the privacy part because the user can keep data private and decide if / how data is to be shared and users can archive, save, or import and export content or activity data in a variety of formats. However, all users (instructors and learners) must provide personal information to a third party in creating an account.
In the part of social presence is important because is a collaborative tool; it can support a community of learning through both asynchronous and synchronous opportunities for communication.
Related to teaching presence, the tool has easy-to-use features that would significantly improve an instructor’s ability to be present with learners via active management, monitoring, engagement, and feedback and is adaptable to its environment: easily customized. through the tool, learners can regularly receive formative feedback on learning (i.e. they can track their performance, monitor their improvement, test their knowledge.
Finally, the disadvantage that we find in the mobile design part is this tool have not offline Access.
In conclusión, this tool can help and support teachers and students to learn more day to day because is easy to use, has different formats, and in different up-to-date devices.
Thank you for reading us and I hope you like it ;)
Ainhoa
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