GoSoapBox – onilne student response system

GoSoapBox is a web services that gives you a system to communicate with your students.

After sign up and confirm your email. You can “create your room”  to students. Then you can create some poll or questions. The most interesting thing about GoSoapBox is you and your students can ask questions immediately right on the  browser. It makes you might answer the questions during your teaching!

It supports chinese  characters in the questions but not in create room.

 

 

  

 

 

After give a try today, I think sounds good about the concepts, but a bit difficult to use – always swap when create the room/questions.

If you want this services, you may give a try it.

 

Related articles

• GoSoapBox – Survey Your Audience In a Variety of Ways (freetech4teachers.com)

HP VantagePoint – replace the blackboard in future

Today, I saw news from Engadget about HP and a private school in Taiwan created a “Future Classroom”. You can imagine that all product use what brand. The most catching my eyes is using “HP VantagePoint” as  Blackboard.

Here is what HP described their VantagePoint:

Six HP LD4730G Micro-Bezel Digital Signage Displays arranged in a 3×2 grid that provides an 11-foot wide by 7-foot high experience
a full 132”-diagonal touch surface
up to 32 simultaneous touch points for multi-person, multi-touch interactive applications
ultra high resolution (4098×1536) supporting the next generation of high-definition content

As HP claimed, this is “a commercial grade system”. I’m no idea what the price is. It seems it can’t easily see it everywhere. But it should be a good start!

Below I found a video from Engadget:

 

 

Concepts: Blended Learning (with Video)

 

Concepts: Online Storage with or without WEBDAV(iPad)

Many users like to have an online storage space to keep their files.

Most of them use Dropbox, Box, Google Drive etc. But keynote, pages and numbers for iPad needs to use “save as WEBDAV” as share option. I googled some information about it. I found that the main question is:

” What do you want?”

What’s that means? If you just want to save the files or share, you have at least three ways:

1) Sync to iTunes

2) Print (Airprint) it

3) Open as other apps, like “GoodReader”

If your question is

” I want to save my work and then save to my desktop wirelessly, I really hate to use the cable!”

You have 2 ways:

1) You can save to other apps first, I recommend “GoodReader”,  then open the Goodreader’s wifi-transfer function. Open the browser on your desktop, type the “IP address” provided. Then you can “get” your files wirelessly.

2) Save it to other “online storage account, like Dropbox”. Then the apps of your iPad will sync to your client on your desktop! Of course, wirelessly!

So, How about the function of “WEBDAV”?

The final answer is if you want find a way to keep your files more “secure”. You need this “function”, otherwise, normal online storage services are suitable for you already.

Here I found some information about the online storage with WEBDAV(like OxygenCloud) .

You may check this review, and this review out!

P.S. The Online storage list.

Concepts: The Flipped Classroom

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