Best Education Community Solution
Recognizes the online system designed to provide social learning, collaboration, and education community support for PK-12 or postsecondary students, teachers and administrators. Includes tools for teacher communication, class/lecture capture, resource centers, collaboration and planning tools, blogs, wikis, and other interactive, social media solutions.
CourseSites by Blackboard - Blackboard Inc.CourseSites is a free, cloud-based online learning platform service that empowers individual K–12 teachers, college and university instructors and community educators to add a web–based component to their courses, or even host an entire course on the Internet. CourseSites is powered by the latest and greatest technology from Blackboard, including Blackboard Learn™, Release 9.1, Blackboard Collaborate™, Blackboard Mobile™, and Blackboard Connect™. CourseSites also features seamlessly integrated content from publishers like WileyPLUS and McGraw-Hill Higher Education. CourseSites includes training and support for all users. Additional information can be found online at: |
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ConnectYard - ConnectYard, Inc.ConnectYard provides a robust communications platform that brings together social, mobile, and legacy communications systems and, as a result, supports true unified communications. ConnectYard allows faculty/staff to initiate messages from email or the Learning Management System and have it arrive to students via Facebook, Twitter, or text messaging. Students can reply from their favorite social and mobile channels and have the responses sent back to email and the Learning Management System; this eliminates communication barriers that limit student engagement and collaboration. ConnectYard's flexible platform supports uses in teaching and learning, emergency notifications, and student services applications. Social features such as trending, mentions, likes, and one-to-one messaging provide familiar functions that allow students to quickly begin using the platform. Additional information can be found online at: |
 
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Discovery Educator Network - Discovery EducationThe Discovery Educator Network (DEN) is a global community of educators passionate about teaching with digital media, sharing resources, collaborating and networking. Through blogs, virtual conferences and in-person events, the DEN connects educators around the world and supports them in leveraging digital media and technology in their classrooms to engage students in learning. As one of the largest professional education learning communities, the DEN has impacted more than 1 million educators worldwide. Additional information can be found online at: |
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Gaggle - GaggleGaggle provides Web 2.0 instructional tools that engage students and promote collaboration, personal and group communication, organization, productivity, and networking. Gaggle's iPad App gives students and teachers access to these features while also supporting a shared-device classroom environment. Gaggle hosts these resources in a safe online learning environment with the highest degree of CIPA compliance designed specifically for K-12 education. All student activities in Gaggle are passed through multiple filtering systems that scan for inappropriate content. Gaggle now includes our Human Monitoring Service as part of our subscription to better protect students and reduce the administrative burden on teachers. Additional information can be found online at: |
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Learnist - GrockitLearnist is a social learning service that helps anyone learn about anything via the web, smart phones and tablets. Using Grockit's proven social learning technologies, Learnist lets users curate publicly available media into lessons to help teachers, students and life-long learners. With 100% of the Common Core Curriculum for grades 7 and up, Learnist provides learning for all ages. Additional information can be found online at: |
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