1.+Technology+Toolbox

Tools || Levels || Cost || User Friendly || Speed || Value || Advantages || Disadvantages || Reader || 3 || Free || Yes || Fast and easy to download and upload it || 3 || Google reader is a tool which can help teachers to organize their curriculum with students. Teachers can also check students’ feedback anytime. || This tool can’t be a funny tool to engage students because it is very formal framework and students would not like and interesting about it. || Register || 3.5 || It is colorful, easy to communicate with group, has powerful massage center, chart room, sticky note, doodle, place for sharing files and videos with group members. It can create a discussion topic. Easy to interact with teachers and peers. || This tool can’t be publish, need an account, Firefox browser only and can’t edit pages, ||
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 * Kohive || 3.5 || Free || Yes || Quick to
 * Wikispaces || 4 || Free || Yes || Fast || 4.5 || It is easy to combine pictures and video, can post RSS-feed in pages, upload and download files, || Bad table using and editing, difficult for new users, less color, only Wikispaces members can post comment or feedback to page’s owner ||
 * Blogger || 3.5 || Free || Yes || Quick || 3.8 || Blogger is a great digital tool which can be a learning environment. Blogger has some advantages such as upload, download, and discuss. Students can upload and download any paper, video, and picture and also can see any important information which post from teacher. The most important is students can have common with other students and teacher. || Blogger is a great learning environment, but it still has disadvantages. First, it is too crowded in the main page. It is not like Wikispaces or PBWork can create other page to organize information. Second, if user put too many things in the main page that will make page too long. ||
 * Protopage || 4 || Free || Yes || Fast || 3.9 || This learning tool provide messages promptly, for example, we can see many news from different company and forecast which you can change your location. Protopage is a fancy learning space which can attract students’ attention and interests to follow. || You can’t leave massage on it, you can’t communicate with other students and teachers immediately. ||
 * PBWorks || 4.7 || Free || Yes || Fast || 5 || It is easy to access, use and understand how to use it. Plus, the instruction is very clear. The administrators who are usually teachers of the page can have the authority to control the page. For example, only teachers can rewrite the syllabus if it is necessary. Once you join the page, you can upload the files, videos, or links. || There are some further function but we have to pay for it. It is easy to access but there are so many little functions, sometimes you need more time to get use to it. It doesn’t have many colors for changing the page which is not fancy. ||
 * Hot Potatoes || 4.6 || Free || Yes || Fast || 5 || Hot potatoes is a tool which can create 5 categories tests for students such as JCloze, JCross, JMatch, JMix, and JQuiz. These tests can help teachers to evaluate their students in learning. || Not very easy to learn how to use this tool for old generation teachers. ||
 * Survey Monkey || 4.7 || Free || Yes || Quick || 5 || Survey Monkey is a good tool because it can create any question for your students and also can do teachers’ research for their curriculum. || Old generation teachers need to learn very hard for this tool. ||
 * Social Bookmarking || 3.9 || Free || Yes || Quick || 3.7 || It is a tool that help user to operate important things. Ps: Firefox bookmark || None ||