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In my opinion, i think that the winner is FreshGrade. Because of FreshGrade is a trio of free apps for teachers, students, and parents. It is an easy-to-use platform that showcases the learning that is happening in the classroom.  Teacher can document and communicate their learning. In addition, a student’s individual portfolio has the capability to grow each year as the teachers use FreshGrade. Unlike many of the apps that are built just for teachers, FreshGrade was specifically designed to meet the needs of a campus or district through the inclusion of the reporting and data component.
Teacher read their comments and gave the students feedback. Parents were able to immediately see all of this, so they have a better understanding of how the writing process progresses.

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1.  its ability to allow for the attachment of specific curricular outcomes to key learning tasks

2.  it provided for flexibility in customizing outcomes to include foundational skills, such as visualization, reasoning, communicating and problem-solving

3. it also allowed teachers to create interim report cards, referred as “progress reports”

4. There is a “Keep Private” function that allowed teachers to add notes to student work that would remain visible only to the teacher at the teacher’s discretion as needed.

Cons

1. Lacks some tools for creation, like drawing tools and voice recording.

2.  learning outcomes were generated based on documents, these outcomes were too vague for students to be able to clearly identify their specific areas of need.

3. no clear notifications or alerts letting student know when due dates were approaching or past

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1. it is easy to update students and parents about field trips, upcoming test, projects.

2.Students only need the ability to receive text messages, they can join by just sending a text message, no need to download an app.

3.For a safety precaution, all phone numbers are kept private, no need to know everyone's cell phone number

4.Unlimited amount of students can sign up and unlimited amount of text messages

5.learner can have up to more than 10 different classes

6. A transcript of all Announcements and Chats is available at anytime. An accurate communication history will always be available

Cons

1. Messages are one way only- parents, students cannot reply to them.

2. There is a limit of 140 characters per message.

3. Only 8 person can into the group.

4.  families in varying parts of the digital divide may have unequal access.

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FreshGrade allows teachers and students to quickly and easily capture learning in a way that revolutionizes learning. it suite of applications features student portfolios, parent engagement, custom assessment tools, custom activities/assignments with curriculum alignment and classroom announcements.

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Remind  is a private mobile messaging platform that enables teachers, parents, students, and administrators in K–12 schools to communicate with everyone  quickly and efficiently. The purpose of this app is changing how educators, students, and parents share the content that helps them teach and learn.

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Communication for teacher:  Remind VS Freshgrade

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Communication for teacher:  Remind VS Freshgrade

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James Zheng

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In my opinion, it is much more effective and useful for teachers to use a Blog to advance professional development. Based on the information I shared, there are some limitations for teachers to use Instagram in teaching. For example, first, Instagram replies mainly on images and videos. However, teachers who write a Blog can use and choose from many different multimedia elements, such as videos, audios, links, blog posts, and images. Second, Instagram, as a communication medium, encourages more people to be connected with each other and communicate with each other. However, a Blog can be used not only as a communication tool, but also as a teaching platform.

Therefore, Blog is the Winner!!

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Pros

Provides a direct connection to share ideas, experience, and moments with other people, get more ideas and inspirations from others, discover interested topics, and explore more useful information.

Free, open, and accessible. It allows all people who are from different countries to use this tool.

A kind of communication medium. People can use this tool to communicate with other people, learn from others' experience, and share ideas by commenting on their posts directly. A private communication platform is also provided in Instagram as well.

Encourages artistic skills for learners. They can find many information about art design and elements of photography in Instagram and get more inspirations.

Cons

Become an addiction for its users.

False advertising. Many stores, service, or products reply on Instagram to promote; however, some of them include false advertising.

Replies on images or photos mainly. Sometimes, it will be not clear for teachers to only use images to express their ideas.

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Pros

Provides a useful platform or way for teachers to share content or information, ask questions, and connect with their students.

Creates a sense of community, which can also help to generate new ideas and provide feedbacks.

Provides a place for people to gather information and get inspirations from blog posts, images, videos, audios, and links.

Easier for people to use, follow, and create.

Provides updated blog posts on a regular and frequent basis. It will be much more helpful and useful for people to learn new knowledge.

Cons

Challenging for teachers who are not good at using computers or who do not have Internet access.

Copyright Issues will be one of the biggest and most important problems of blog posts.

Requires regular updates clearly. A schedule will be useful and helpful.

Requires extra time for people if unexpected technical issues happened, such as disappearing posts and errors of using tools.

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Instagram is a social networking tool, which is owned by Facebook. It provides a simple and clear way for people to capture and share different moments in the world. People can use Instagram to post images, photos, and videos, connect with other people in public, share their personal experience and moments, message their friends privately, explore and discover more useful information, and get different inspirations from others specifically.

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A blog is an informational website or online journal tool. It is also a platform where writers can share their ideas, experiences, and views on an individual subject clearly. Different from websites, people need to update their posts frequently and regularly on a Blog and latest posts will be appear first as well.

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Professional Development (Other): Blog v.s. Instagram

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Professional Development (Other): Blog v.s. Instagram

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Ruike (Abby) Han

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In my opinion, the winner of inspiration in online resources is Padlet and it is much more useful and effective for teachers to use as well. Compared with Pinterest, Padlet is much more important, useful, and meaningful for teachers to use it in the class. Also, many different learning functions can be used and created in this platform as well. Moreover, it is easy, clear, and direct for teachers to collaborate on, share, and track their students by using this platform as well.

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There's a possibility that students may post inappropriate content or information that their peers may see in their page.

Teachers cannot exactly control what their students may post.

Based on my own experience, it is challenging for students to organize their group work in this platform.

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It is flexible and convenient for people to use. Many useful functions are included in this platform, such as discussion board, greeting card, portfolio, business plan, and list.

There is no age and place limited for people to use this platform

When using this platform in the class, it is easier and clearer for teachers to share and track their students. Teachers can use this platform to create handouts and share the assignments to the classes directly.

It is free and accessible

It is easy for beginners to use this platform to create a new page and share with other social media platforms or sites.

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Padlet is a kind of digital canvas that can help learners to create their own projects, share their projects with other people and get more ideas from others clearly. Many different  multimedia elements can be added or uploaded to the empty page of your project, including images, videos, recordings, text posts, and documents.

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Copyright Issues. People need to pay more attention to post and change other people's images, photos, and videos on Pinterest. There have been some copyright issues on Pinterest, but it is not clear and direct to see what media violates the terms and conditions of this platform. Also, it is much easier for people to change the caption of the image.

People who are attracted to use Pinterest are very specific.

People often spend too much time on finding ideas and viewing posts on Pinterest. It may causes addiction.

It is only for fun

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It is easy, clear, and convenient for people to explore and discover daily articles or posts on recommended topics.

It is useful to collaborate with friends or people who have similar hobbies or interests with you.

It is easy for people to get more inspirations and ideas from other people directly and specifically.

It is accessible for people to share images and information on Pinterest

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Pinterest is a social media platform or tool that can help people to get ideas and inspirations from other people in public. The ideas include travel, home design, cooking recipes, fashion, and art design. People can use this platform to discover information, get ideas, and explore their interested topics by images, videos, and GIFs.

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Xuting Wang

Recently, with the development of technologies, online resources have been widely used in today's education. The resources can be mainly divided into several parts: organization, inspiration, communication, collaboration, and professional development. The part I plan to introduce is inspiration. I will compare and contrast the two useful and effective social media platforms directly and specifically: Pinterest and Padlet.

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For teacher's professional development the winner is Youtube. YouTube is a very well know and easily accessed online resource with billions of active users posting and sharing! It is a simple and engaging way to learn with the visuals and audios and allow sharing and suggesting certain videos to be easy! Additionally, the ability to create playlists and folders will allow the user to keep their videos of choice organized and easily accessed. This device is also a great way for teachers to further explain concepts or topics to students. The con of inappropriate content can also be monitored on Youtube and users can read the comments and reviews before hand to make sure they are gaining the right kind of information. A teacher may also upload certain strategies or topics they are passionate about and share with billions of others!

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-can be false or inappropriate since it is not heavily monitored
-since there are a variety of databases, when sharing or suggesting podcasts, the search for the right one may be confusing and hard to find
-not as well known as YouTube
-does not have video qualities, only audio
-lack of video representations may be less interesting and engaging
-saving podcasts may be limited due to the amount of space one has on their device

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-can be false or inappropriate information since it is not heavily monitored
-videos can disappear after being deleted
-loading videos can be slow and have delays based on strength of internet connection

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-most often are free of charge to create and listen to podcasts
-can be accessed easily with internet service
-precise and detailed audio files on a variety of topics and opinions
-users can download and save files of their choosing to their device and can listen to anytime
-saved audio files will remain even if original content is deleted
-easy and enjoyable to listen to on the go

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-all internets (internationally) have access to YouTube
-free of charge to watch videos, make an account, or upload content
-discover a variety of topics and opinions with detailed audio and video representations
can follow users and topics of your interest
-can be accessed from a computer, phone, or app
can save videos and create playlists or folders
-easily organzied and easy to use
-well known media source

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Podcasts are audio files that individuals can download and listen to. There are multiple websites that podcasts can be found on. Below, is one popular database for finding podcasts.

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Podcasts is one the top sites to discover the hottest podcasts, listen to your favorite podcast and use all the best tools required for podcasting.

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YouTube is a video sharing website that allows users to search, follow and subscribe to a variety of video sharers and topics.

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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Jacqueline Carhoun

The use of online resources as a tool for education has become a growing phenomenon for individuals, including teachers. Here, we will discus the pros and cons of two popular sources of information including Youtube and Podcasts.