TinyURL is exactly what the name says. It takes a long, difficult url and shrinks it down to be much more manageable. A long url with over 80 characters can be shrunk down to a more manageable 20 characters. This can help teachers and students with personal productivity and learning by cleaning things up. Teachers and students do not need to use up so much space to include an extremely long url. It makes them short, brief, and clear. No more jumbled up characters needed to create a link.
Dropbox is essentially an online hard drive. You can store information that can be accessed remotely by various computers. This allows students and teachers to access information from various locations. It eliminates the need for students and teachers to carry around flash drives. In particular it is handy for students to use to access information when not present in the classroom.
Teamviewer is a tool that provides remote access from computer to computer. It allows computers to be linked together from anywhere. This can help teachers and students with personal productivity and learning by giving teachers and students access to each other outside of the classroom. As a student needs individual help teachers can connect remotely and view what is on the student's computer to give help. This expands the classroom further than the walls of the school can reach.
Wonderful overview of these three tools. Time permitting, you may wish to view a few of your peer's posts, and consider providing a few active links to these tools for those viewers who wish additional information.
ReplyDeleteHave you personally experimented with TinyURL or Dropbox? _____ Do you feel they would be beneficial to your increase your own personal productivity or enhance teaching and learning? ____ (again, just questions to ponder; and not required to respond)