Effective Web 2.0 Tools for the Classroom: Part 5

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Luaran . Eds

ASSESSMENT WITH WEB 2.0 TOOLS

Johan Eddy Luaran

Universiti Teknologi MARAR

Johan Eddy Luaran

Universiti Teknologi MARAR

EFFECTIVE WEB 2.0 TOOLS FOR THE CLASSROOMPART 5

EFFECTIVE WEB 2.0 TOOLS FOR THE

CLASSROOM

PART 5

JOHAN EDDY LUARAN

i-Learn Center

Universiti Teknologi MARA

2016

PREFACE

eb 2.0 provides variety of tools, which educators can leverage on to

enhance the essential skills of students in the 21st century. The tools

engage students and horn their communication, creativity, critical

thinking and collaborative skills. As these Web 2.0 tools revolutionize the way how

teaching and learning takes place in many “classrooms”, the lists of the convenient,

clever and interactive educational tools are fast growing to liberate the process of

teaching and learning from the four walls. Technology allows such process to be

ubiquitous and seamless. However, it may be hard for an educator who is a novice in

technology to be able to identify and draw on the tools for effective learning. This book

is written with the intention of guiding the educators in exploring the Web 2.0 tools

that can be used in their teaching and learning.

This is the fifth book of its series- Effective Web 2.0 Tools for the classroom, which

featured various Web 2.0 tools that can be used to maximized students’ learning. As

an extension to the earlier parts of this series, this book too dedicates its every chapter

to one particular Web 2.0 tool. It subsequently goes on to describe the benefits of

using the tool in educational settings, which is then followed by the step-by-step

guidance in using the tool. Readers will also appreciate the inclusion of screenshots to

ease their navigation in making the most out of the online resources. Eleven tools are

described in this part of the Web 2.0 tools series, namely Twiducate, LittleBirdsTale,

Thoughts.co, Dweeber, Sketchlot, CoSketch, Glogster, Scribblar, CollaborizeClassroom,

SchoolRack and Edublogs.

It is hoped that this book will provide a resource to advocate for the best possible ways

to learn from the open world.

Best Regards

Johan Eddy Luaran

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EFFECTIVE WEB 2.0 TOOLS FOR THE CLASSROOM: PART 5

CONTENTS

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CHAPTER 1: TWIDUCATE 1

CHAPTER 2: LITTLE BIRD TALES 26

CHAPTER 3: THOUGHTS.COM 77

CHAPTER 4: DWEEBER 91

CHAPTER 5: SKETCHLOT 130

CHAPTER 6: COSKETCH 152

CHAPTER 7: GLOGSTER 173

CHAPTER 8: SCRIBBLAR 202

CHAPTER 9: COLLABORIZE CLASSROOM 225

CHAPTER 10: SCHOOLRACK 250

CHAPTER 11: EDUBLOGS 298

EFFECTIVE WEB 2.0 TOOLS FOR EFFECTIVE CLASSROOM PART 5

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INTRODUCTION TO TWIDUCATE

Twiducate.com is a free resource medium for educators run by Ray Blakney. Developed in

2009, their goal is to create a medium for teachers and students to continue their learning

outside the classroom. They attempt to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue

for teachers, schools, and home learners in a social networking environment.

They understand that many social networking sites exist, however the control of content is

limited for teachers. Also, many of these social networking sites are continuously being blocked

by school firewalls and administrators. Many students are already using social networking sites

nowadays. Twiducate gives them an opportunity to develop their learning in this type of

environment but with control over visibility and content. Twiducate is different than other social

networking sites since only teachers and students may view classroom posts, thus creating a

private network for teachers and their students and a safer online learning environment.

Twiducate makes online learning easier for students because rather than having the students

sign up and enter their email address, the teacher can sign up and create a class code for the

class. Students will be able to log in to the class network using the code. There, they can

answer questions, collaborate on problems, and even embed pictures and videos. The teacher

will have full control over the network.

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BENEFITS OF USING TWIDUCATE

1. It is Free!

Twiducate is free to be used and it does not have any hidden chargers for the teachers and

students.

2. Allow posting of discussions, deadlines, homework, collaborating on work by

providing feedback and chatting between students.

Teachers can pose questions, quizzes, assessments, and collaborative activities for students to

respond to.

3. Twiducate Mobile

With the integration of technology, twiducate can be viewed on mobile devices so that the

student can participate anytime and anywhere.

4. Private and Confidential for the class only.

Twiducate is a private network where only students and teachers can view the class content.

This provides a higher level of control for teachers to direct learning within a controlled

environment.


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GETTING STARTED

Since this is a website which is controlled by teachers, only teachers can sign up for a

class and provides students with the code to log in.

1. Go to http://www.twiducate.com/. This would be the homepage.

2. Sign Up. To create a classroom page, the teacher must first sign up.

http://www.twiducate.com/


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3. Fill up the required fields. Once you have clicked sign up, fill up the details required. At this

page, you must also fill in the details for your classroom such as the name and the code. Tips:

Use simple and memorable name and code for your classroom to ease the access for students

later on. Avoid using general classroom name as to prevent the possibilities of having the same

name as other classrooms.


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4. Once you have successfully signed up, you will be then be taken to this page, which is also

known as the Home page.


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STUDENTS ACCESS

After the class/page has been created, only then the teachers can give access to the

students to enter the class.

1. At the home page, click the +Students label.


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2. You will be taken to the next page.

3. Here, fill in the box with the name of one of your student and then click add.


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3. Once you have added the students, you will be able to manage and monitor the students’

activities on this page also.


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Students’ Login

Once the teacher has created the classroom, what the students needed in order to login

to the classroom are the classroom code and the password. Note that every student will

have their very own password which can be found next to their name under the +student

tab. Only the teacher in charge can give the password to the students.

1. Students login. Go to http://www.twiducate.com/ and click log in on the right side of the page.

2. Next, choose to log in as a student and then just click ‘Go>’.



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3. New form will appear.


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4. Fill in the boxes and then click ‘Go>’. Note that the text provided by the website (the one that is used to avoid SPAM) is different every time you log in.


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5. You are log in! Here’s an example of students home page. It looks more or less like the

teacher’s however it does not have all the features that the teacher has such as managing the

people who can enter the class.


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TWIDUCATE’s Features:

A. Home Page


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B. Share Your Thoughts

As mentioned before, Twiducate is an educational website that mirrored some features of

Twitter and Facebook which makes it enjoyable for students to use it as well. Hence, Twiducate

also has features that allow the teachers and students to share their thoughts, opinion and ask

questions by posting it on the home page. Teacher can also use this feature to post homework

and quizzes.

As Teacher

1. To share your thoughts


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2. Your post will appear on the timeline.

As Students

1. For students to share their thoughts, the steps are similar as the teacher.


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2. Once you have posted,

Note the difference between students and teachers. The teacher in charge has the power

to delete and pin posts on the class’ timeline whereas the students can only edit their

own post as well as like posts on the class timeline.

Extra features for teachers regarding the posts and comments in Twiducate: Teachers

can save the posts and comments in documents as a record as well as print it later and

they can also clear the timeline in the class.


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C. Important Dates (for teachers only)

The important date section allows teachers to post various pieces of information for your

students. You can use this feature to post exam dates, coursework deadlines,

assessment sheet and etc.


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ADDING IMPORTANT DATES

1. To add important dates (click either at the tab on top or the tab on the right of the page).

2. You will be directed to this page. Fill in the blanks and clicks add date.


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3. Once you have added the date, it will appear at the bottom of the page. Here, the teacher can also update the date later or delete the date if it is unnecessary anymore.


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Class Bookmarks (Only for teacher)

The class bookmark section of Twiducate allows you as the teacher to post pieces of information that your students can assess in lessons or at home. Suggestions on using this feature: Bookmark resources, presentations, bookmark images, websites etc.


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USING BOOKMARK

1. Click the class bookmark section. (Either at top tab or the tab on the right side of the page)

2. You will be directed to the next page.


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3. The bookmark will appear as below.

NOTE: Students can only view, open and print important dates and bookmarks. They cannot

add or edit the dates and bookmarks in the class.


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Adding Other Teachers to the class

You can add other teachers to your class. By doing this, the other teacher will also have full control of the class. You can use this features in case you needed someone else to help you in controlling the class.


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1. To add other teachers

2. Once you have successfully added the teacher in your class, their names will appear below

and you can manage the teacher there also.


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INTRODUCTION TO LITTLE BIRDS TALES

Though the advantages of digital application in educational setting have been widely

acknowledged, it is extremely hard to find a comprehensive one that is able to match the needs

of elementary classroom especially in the early grades. Little Bird Tales was developed to make

social studies come alive for young students. Featuring the attraction of visual and sounds, the

site pays a great deal of details on privacy. It also has no advertisements pop-ups or external

links and it only requires a valid email to sign-up.

Once an account has been activated, the users only need to click on “create new tale” to

construct the tale cover which can easily be done either by uploading a saved image or drawing

a new one. Users can also attach an audio to the story that they create. Once the video has

finished, the users can choose whether they want to share it or simply keep it private.

The interesting feature of Little Bird Tales is that it creates a platform for the children to tell

stories that can be autobiographical either it is about themselves, their community, school and

family of other world history figures. The topic could also extend to other areas such as

environment, economics, civic ideals or global communities. The features in the website will be

able to facilitate children to anchor down their imagination and creativity on an accessible form.

This app is suitable to introduce children to the usage of technology in the classroom setting as

it is easy to navigate. At the same time, the teachers will be able to invest limited curriculum

time for a collective project before expanding a video project to a more extensive one for

individual students.

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BENEFITS OF USING LITTLE BIRDS TALES

1. Encourages creativity and self-expression

The Little Birds Tales incorporates reading, writing as well as the editing of videos in one

production. The integrated skills would require the students to develop their skills in these

individual aspects simultaneously and highly encourages creativity and self-expression. The

users will be able to illustrate with the integrated art pad as well as smooth playback with audio,

text and images. The users can also import images from the photo gallery.

2. Helps Reinforce Reading and Writing Skills

One of the most astounding benefits Little Bird Tales can warrant is excitement and motivation

for the children. It guarantees a new level of engagement a digital story would provide. Little

Bird Tales can also be utilized for writing assignments, book reports, poetry writing, journals and

a lot more fun activities for children. With the combination of digital features, the children will be

highly motivated to participate in the learning process.

3. No disruption

The website has a feature to circumvent the advertisements pop-ups. It is also free from

merchandising as well as external links which could come as a promising feature to ensure that

the online learning process to be free from unnecessary distraction.

4. Tailored for Kids

Little Bird Tales was designed to allow children to work with their parents and friends in creating

art-inspired stories to share and save. It is widely known tool that provokes imaginative creativity

as well as supporting collaborative writing effort. With its friendly features, the site is more

engaging for kindergarteners.


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GETTING STARTED

How to sign up

1. Go to http://littlebirdtales.com

2. Sign up

http://littlebirdtales.com/


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3. Select the type of account you would prefer

4. a) “Free Personal” registration


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4. b) “Free Teacher” registration


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4. c) “Premium Teacher” registration


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FREE PERSONAL ACCOUNT

How to Edit Your Own Profile

1. This is the homepage for “Free Personal” account

2. Find the My Profile option


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3. Edit the information that you want


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How to Create a Tale

1. This is the homepage for “Free Personal” account

2. Start your own tale by clicking “Create Tale”


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3. Enter the name of your tale and the author’s name


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4. Make the cover art for your tale


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4. a) i- Draw your own cover art

4. a) ii- Save your cover art


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4. b) Select one of the photos from your own gallery

4. c) Upload your own photo from your computer


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5. Add audio to your tale


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6. Start recording your audio

7. Check your audio


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8. Save your tale


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9. Add another page to your tale


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9. Add another page to your tale (cont.)

10. a) Draw your new page of your tale


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10. b) Select one of the photos from the gallery


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10.c) Upload from your own computer

11. Add details to your new page


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12. Save your new page

13. a) Preview your tale if you are satisfied with your tale


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13. a) Delete/Add Page if you are not satisfied with your tale

14. The preview of your tale


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To look at your tale

1. Click My Tales


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2. Click the options of your tale

How to Share Your Tales

1. Click My Tales


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2. Click Share under More Options

3. Enter the required information (e-mails, subject, message) and click share when you are

done


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4. This will appear once you are done


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How to Read Public Tales

1. Click Public Tales

2. Select any Public Tale that you wish to read


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3. Enjoy your tale!


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How To Create a PDF file of your tale

1. Click My Tales

2. Click PDF


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3. Your browser will download your tale in PDF file


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How to Embed a Tale

1. Click My Tales

2. Click Embed Code to get the link


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3. Use the link and code given to embed your tale


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How to Delete Your Profile

1. Find My Profile


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2. Click ‘Cancel Account’ to terminate your account

3. Enter your password and click Delete My Account to complete the process


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FREE TEACHER ACCOUNT

There are several distinct features for “Free Teacher” account if it were to be compared

with “Free Personal” account. “Free Teacher” account has more features such as

“Create a Lesson” and “My Lessons”. Under Teacher Navigation, there are “My

Lessons”, “Book Club Lessons”, “Manage Students”, “Import Students”, “Manage

Classes” and “Manage School”.

This is the homepage for “Free Teacher” account


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How to Create Your Lesson

1. Click My Lessons

2. Click on Select School button


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3. Find or Add Your School by filling the information required

4. Fill the information of your school and click add school


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5. Start creating your lesson by clicking Create Lesson

6. Add the title, author’s name, your cover art and any audio if desired


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7. Disallow students from making any change(s) to your lesson

8. Save your lesson


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9. Provide instructions to your students

10. Make amendments according to your preference


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How to Manage Students

1. You need to have students first! So, import the name of your students by clicking Import

Students

2. Choose one of either two ways of importing your students. You could use (.CSV files) or

(.XLS files)


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How to Manage Classes

1.Go to Manage Classes


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2. Edit the options according to your preference

3. Click on the name of the class to view more


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4. Edit your class


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Adding Students

1. Click Add Student and this will appears

2. Fill the columns required and click Save


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3. After you are done, you could see the details of the student here.


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Managing Students

1. Go to Manage Students

2. Select the name of the student to manage


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3. Edit the information of the students


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Managing School

1. Go to Manage School

2. Click the buttons to hover around the page


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Assessing Lesson Plans

1. This could be done without signing up to the website. From the homepage, click Lesson

Plans

2. Select the level of your preference and language. Have fun!


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INTRODUCTION TO THOUGHTS

Thoughts.com is a free blog where you can share your thoughts and meet similar or like-minded

people. You can write on any kinds of topics and thoughts.com will always provide you with the

audience who will read your posts. Similar as blogging, you can put up pictures and videos at

ease in your blog. Thougths.com allows you to meet new friends who share the same interest

as you as well as having or joining group discussions on the topics that you are interested in

with strangers. You can also have private conversations with other bloggers on thoughts.com.

This will ensure your privacy on the web. Besides that, users can have live chating with their

friends and the community members of thoughts.com so that they will always be in touch with

one another other than through their posts. You can personalize your thoughts easily to your

style and taste and your privacy in thoughts is ensured to be secured. The best part of all is that

it is free. You are free to posts your thoughts, videos and pictures and share it with others and

discover other interesting and exciting posts through your topics of interest.

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BENEFITS OF USING THOUGHTS

a. Easy to Navigate

The web features on Thoughts are designed in a facilitative design to aid the

users to blog easily. Sharing photos, videos or links to websites for an enhanced

experience of discussions would be much easier. Their easy-to-use features will

facilitate you to create your blog with customized theme that matches your personality

and interests. It will be so much easier for you to reflect yourself on your blog as you can

decorate your page by setting your own background, colour scheme and a lot more.

You will be able to create either a personal blog or a group blog whichever suits your

preferences.

b. Diversified Online Community

There are no limits on the topics of discussion on Thoughts. The users will be

exposed to myriad of opinions that will help them restructure their thoughts on the issues

discussed. You can also invite others to join you. Loop your friends in and let them know

about your new blog by connecting your posts with your other social network sites such

as Facebook and Twitter. If you encounter someone with similar interests, you can send

them friend requests to follow their blogs.

You can take your conversations to the next level by chatting live with your

friends and members of the online community. If you would want the conversation to be

privy for certain people, you can always take it to the private mailbox.

c. Privacy

If you feel more comfortable blogging only to a certain audience, you can set

your blog private and share your posts only with your friends. You have the full

autonomy to control the magnitude of your interaction with other people on

Thoughts.com. Your level of privacy is within your hold.


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GETTING STARTED

How to sign up

1. Go to http://thoughts.com/public/tour

2. Sign up by creating an account

http://thoughts.com/public/tour

http://thoughts.com/public/tour


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How to create your blog

1. This will appear once you sign in

2. Next, select your topic of interest


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3. Select any blog that you wish to follow


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4. This will appear once you have finish with registration. Your Home page.


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Start creating your post

1. Creating a text post

2 You will be directed to this page.


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3. You can also posts other types of posts instead of plain text on your blogpage such as posting

pictures, Videos, links and questions


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To customize your blog

1. Go to My Blogs.

2. Here you can see your records for your blog. You can also do various things here such as

invite members to join your blog, create your post, change picture and themes. Back to

customizing your blog.


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3. This page will appear next.


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4. Besides that, you also can customize your blog theme by clicking on the theme settings.


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View your blog dashboard and explore more

1. Click home to view your dashboard. Example view of your dashboard:


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2. You also can view other people blogs, discussions or questions by clicking on the ‘Blogs’tab

on top of the dashboard.

3. Under the blogs tab, you can explore more about other people’s thoughts/posts or blogs.


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4 .If you want to joint any discussion, go to the discussion tab and choose any discussion post


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INTRODUCTION TO DWEEBER

Dweeber enables teachers to create an online study group to take academic discussion to the

next level. It enables students ranging from 13-17 to accomplish their homework with their

friends. Not only it is more fun, it also increases the chances for the homework to be finished. It

aims to enhance the potential of students to help each other academically within the online

community. The creation of Dweeber takes the consideration of having the young people as

the target audience hence it is packaged with an edge of ultra-cool look equipped with safety

features. In other words, it is the Facebook version with the sole purpose being to get the

homework done.

Introduced to public in 2009, Dweeber joins the course of the growing phenomenon of social

networking to create an online avenue for the teenagers have a conducive online environment

to help them learn and study with the help of their peers. It operates on the objective to

empower the young people which will then help them create a habit of helping and sharing with

their peers. They operate on these guiding principles;

Everyone has their own unique brilliance

Think of differences as resources rather than disorders

Track assets rather than deficits

Think of mistakes as experiments rather than failures

Everyone has an inner Dweeb, a geek part of us that is passionate about something

important

Dweeber’s unique S.M.A.R.T. profile (stands for Success, Mind Patterns, Attractions and

Interests, Resources, and Thinking Talents) can help the users to know how they and their

peers learn best. It makes your learning experienced to be more personalized to attend to your

academic needs.

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BENEFITS OF USING DWEEBER

a. Youth Advisory Board

Youth Advisory Board is a help system in which the members will be able to direct their

questions to the peers should they have any further questions in regards of the site’s

procedures. This also enables the shy students to be able to reach out and have an interactive

communication to ask questions about homework or assignments among their peers without

having them risking themselves to the scary task of forwarding a question in front of everyone in

the class. This can help build the students’ confidence in participating the educational

discussions. Knowing that they are able to voice out their opinions without having to risk an

immediate demotivating face to face response can help them feel secure to participate. Up to

eight people can engage in a real-time study session using the collaborative whiteboard at one

time.

b. Language Blockers Feature

One of the concerns when it comes to having forums online is the probability of foul language

that can make its way to the chat rooms. At Dweeber, teachers and parents need not to worry

about it as it is equipped with foul language blockers. Any offensive remarks will be blocked

leaving the chat room to remain intact. With this feature, students will also be able to practice

appropriate chat room etiquette.

c. Privacy

Another amazing feature to avoid cyber bullying on the site is the privacy in which only the

friends that have been personally approved by the students will be able to have an access to

contact them. The students will be able to monitor their network online and avoid any possible

cyber bullying messages.


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GETTING STARTED

Signing Up

1. Go to http://dweeber.com/

2. Sign up for an account by filling up your details on the box on the left side of the page.

http://dweeber.com/


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3. Once you have successfully signed up, you will be then be taken to this page, which is

also known as your account’s Home Page.

HOME

PAGE Your profile

Action Icons


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How to Edit Your Profile

1. Once you have successfully sign up for an account, you can easily edit your profile by

clicking the ‘profile’ option in the orange box on the left of the page .

2. Your profile page will appear. Here, your full profile is displayed and you are free to edit

your profile as much as you want just by clicking the related boxes.

Click here to edit

your profile

Edit your profile

here. You can

complete your

profile just by

filling in blank

spaces


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3. You also can upload and change your profile picture.

4. Once you have clicked the ‘change’ option, 3 more action icons will appear which are :

Browse, Upload and Cancel.

Click here to change

your profile picture

To change profile picture:

1. Click ‘Browse’ to browse through your image library

2. Once you have chosen the picture, the savepath of the image will appear in the box.

3. Click ‘UPLOAD’ to change your picture or ‘CANCEL’ to cancel changing your profile picture


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5. Once you are done, clicks ‘SAVE’ at the bottom of the page.


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STUDY SESSION

You can launch a group study session with your friends and have discussions by

chatting and sharing links using the whiteboard

How To Start A Study Session

1. Click the ‘START STUDY SESSION’ button at the bottom of the page.

Click here!


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2. Once you have clicked the button, a small box will appear. Fill in the details needed.

3. Study session requires the interaction with another student. So the next step is to select

friends that you want to invite to your session. The “Invite Friends” box will appear. Choose your

friends that you want to invite and then click ‘Finish’ once you are ready to begin your session.


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4. Once you have clicked the finish button, you will then be taken to the next page which is

known as the discussion page. Here you can chat and discuss with your friends about your

topics. You can also use the whiteboard to help in your discussion.

Discussion

page

Type your message

here and click send

List of people who

joined the session

will be shown here


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How to Add Friends

Dweeber is more fun with friends. Before starting a study session, one need to have

friends in their friends list. So here is how to add friends in Dweeber.

1. At the home page, click ‘Invite Friends’ at the bottom of the page.

2. There are 3 ways to invite your friends to join Dweeber :

A. Quick Invite : By entering your friend’s name and email address in the box provided.

Click here to add

and invite friend

Enter your friend’s

name and email

address


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B. Address Book Invite: By inviting them through your Mail Address Book such as Gmail, Yahoo

Mail and Windows Live Hotmail

C. Online Invite : By inviting friends through your social network

Invite directly from email

address book. Enter your

email address and

password. Then choose

from your contact list to

invite.

Click here once you have

done entering your email

address and password

Choose the social network

that you desired, and then

enter your email and

password used for the

account Click Login once

you are done


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2. You can also add other Dweebers to your friends’ list.

3. Once you have clicked ‘View All Dweebs’, a list of Dweebers will be shown.

Click here to

view all dweebs

List of

Dweebers

found


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4. Add a Dweeber to your friends list by clicking the button below their profile.

5. If you succeed, this notification will appear. Once the user has approved your invitation

request, they will appear in your friends list.


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Friends List

1. Click ‘View My Friends’ at the home page.

2. This page will appear where all your friends on Dweeber will be shown.

Click here to see

your list of friends

Your dweebs’

friend


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3. Click the icon below your friend’s profile for actions option. Here you can add your friend

directly to your study group, have a private chat, add to Dweeb team, award success, send card

or remove them from your friends’ list.


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How to Complete Your S.M.A.R.T profile.

SMART, stands for Successes, Mind Patterns, Attractions and Interests, Resources and

Thinking Talents. By completing your SMART profile, you will learn new things about

yourself that can help you with anything you do, and by knowing these things about your

friends, you can work better together while online and get your work done faster.

1. To complete your S.M.A.R.T. profile, begin by clicking the ‘Start S.M.A.R.T.’ on your

homescreen.

Click here

Or click here through either

one of the acronyms to go to

the specific SMART profile

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1. S for Successes. Here you can add your previous successes so that you and your friends

can view your achievements before. You can add any kind of successes in life.

Once you have added your success, it will be shown below in your SMART profile.

1. Type in your success here

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2. M for Mind Patterns. Here you can understand how your brain can be most effective by

answering the set of questions provided.

The instructions are as follows. Answer the set of questions and the results of your Mind Pattern

will be shown later on.

Click here to

understand how

this section work


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Here is your mind patterns result.

Click here to continue

to other section


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3. A for Attraction and Interest. Here you can add your interest and favorite things to your

profile and discovered how they can motivate you.

. Similar as before, click the ‘Instructions’ button below to understand what to do.


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The instructions are as follow.

Begin adding your attraction and interest by clicking the plus (+) sign on the circle.


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A bunch of categories will appear. Click your chosen categories.

For example, if you clicked on the ‘Creative Things’ category, a list of activities will appear. Click

on your interest there.


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When you are done, the your interest will appear in the bubbles. You need to complete at least

4 bubbles before you can move on to the next Acronyms. Click ‘Done’ to save it to your profile.

You can either click ‘RETAKE’ to edit your interests or ‘CONTINUE’ to move on to the other

acronyms.


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4. R for Resources. This section allows you to broadcast information to your Dweebs regarding

websites, people and things, or whiteboards. You can choose the type of resource that you

wanted.

A. Resourceful Website. Here you can add or vote on websites that you find most useful.

To Add Website that you find useful


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A form will appear where you need to complete the form to add the website that you wanted.

Once you have added your website, the website will appear here. You can edit or delete the

website or just add another website by clicking the ‘ADD’ icon.


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To view other resourceful websites.

Click show ‘All’ to see other resourceful websites from other Dweebers.

You will be taken to this page. Here you can view other resourceful websites and vote whether

you like or dislike the websites.


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Vote Brainer if you like the website or No Brainer for dislike. If you vote ‘Brainer’,

This small box will appear where you need to select the best features for this website by clicking

on the pictures. Once you have finish, click ‘Done’.


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You can also view the resourceful list of websites according to the subject.

B. Resources from people/places/Things

You can provide the information regarding the people, places and things that help you out so

that you will be able to call on them for support later when you need them.


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Click on the instructions to learn what you need to do.

Follow the instructions provided to complete the resource profile.


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You can fill in the circles by dragging and drop the choices provided or just type in directly to the

circles. Make sure you fill at least 3 circles before you can move on. Do the same for all 3 cards;

people, places and things.


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C. Resource from the whiteboards. The whiteboards can be added by launching a study

session. The notes or homework that you used in the study session will be saved as notes on

the whiteboard. You can refer back to the whiteboards by clicking the Resource icons.

Once you have completed the Resource section, you can click ‘CONTINUE’ or the acronym ‘T’

to move on to the next section.


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5. T for Thinking Talents. Here you can identify the unique ways of your thinking and your

talents to relate better with your fellow dweebs.

Read the instructions and choose your talents.


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Select talents that describe you. You can only select 4 to 6 talents to your profile. Once you

finish, click ‘Done’ to save it to your profile.


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GURU points

1. Notice that some actions that you completed on Dweeber, will awards you with GURU points.

With Guru points, you will be able to get discounts on products from Dweeber’s sponsors,

purchase books and school products, and other item such as sports equipment, video games,

etc on Dweebers.


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2. Your accumulated Guru points will be shown in your profile box at the newscreen.

To know more about Dweebers

1. If you want to know more about Dweeber, you can have a tour of Dweeber by clicking the

‘DWEEBER TOUR’.


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2. This pop-up window will appear and give an overall description of function for Dweeber

3. Click ‘FAQ’ icon if you have more questions about Dweeber.


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INTRODUCTION TO SKETCHLOT

Sketchlot is basically a web whiteboard for schools where it enables the teachers to incorporate

the elements of creativity in the classroom setting. Teachers will be able to create a sketch on a

virtual whiteboard, share it and have recipients mark it up and share it back. It is also a simple

teaching tool that doesn’t require plug in, installation or app. It can work well on any browser

and from any type of device be it computers, smart phones and tablets.

Sketchlot Whiteboard is the best way to showcase the students’ understanding especially when

it comes to a concept that can appear foreign to most students such as mathematics concepts

and science diagrams. The students are not required to sign up but the teachers will be able to

add them into their respective accounts.

Featured as a form of enhancement tool in the classroom, it can be used for schools as

replacement for traditional chalk and board. The site is immensely helpful in terms of guidance

and support should the teachers and the students require it.

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BENEFITS OF USING SKETCHLOT

a. Facilitative Features

Sketchlot Whiteboard could be an avenue for teachers to introduce the element of digital

learning online. Teachers will be able to log in to the system, create sketches, share and

receive assignments from students. The unique features will equip teachers to have the

necessary tools in creating challenging questions for the students even if the teachers are not

computer savvy.

b. Interactive

Teachers will be able to communicate with students via texts to view and reply from a mobile

device without an email address. This will make educational assistance much more accessible

should the students require any guidance at the site outside classroom. The teachers will be

able to be at help as they can even text students to view and reply from a mobile device to the

interactive whiteboard without an e-mail address. Wisdom, is literally at the tip of your finger!

Apart from that, Sketchlot could help the teachers to transform complex topics in a more

discernable form. For example, visuals such as graphs, pictures and diagrams. This would

come in very handy in the process of teaching and learning and on the bright side, the students

will also be more interested to learn.


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GETTING STARTED

How to sign up

1. Go to http://www.sketchlot.com/


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2. The teachers need to create a new account. Only the teachers can add students to their

account

How to Allow Student Access to the Website

1. At the home page, click the My Class label

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3. Here, fill in the box with the name of one of your student and then click add.

4. Once you have added the students, you will be able to manage and monitor the

students’ activities on this page also.


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Student’s Login

Once the teacher has created the account, what the students needed in order to login

to the account are the class code and the password. Note that every student will have

their very own password and only the teacher in charge can give the password to the

students.

1. For student’s login, go to http://www.sketchlot.com/ and click log in on the left side of the

page.

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2. Next. Choose to log in as a student and click Go


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3. New form will then appear

Choose to log in

as a student and

click ‘Go’


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4. Fill in the box and click ‘Go >’

5. You are log in! Here is the example of student home page.


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How to Create a Sketch

1. Click at the ‘Create your first sketch label’


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Sketchlot’s Features

2. Start to make your first sketch. Here is the example of the sketch by using sketchlot.


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3. Click ‘Save Sketch’ after you are done with your sketch.

4. After you have saved your sketches, you need to go to ‘Home’ to see your sketches.


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5. On your home page, you will able to see the list of your sketches.

6. After you have save your sketches, you can share it with others in the class.


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7. After you click the ‘share’ icon, you will be brought to this new page which you can select

to share your sketches with your teacher.

8. After you have share your sketches, your teacher will be able to see them by using their

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Teacher’s Log in

Once the students have finished with their sketches and shared it to the teacher, the

teacher will be able to see them in their account.

1. For teacher’s login, go to http://www.sketchlot.com/ and click log in on the left side of the

page.



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2. Next. Choose to login as a teacher. Then, click ‘GO>’

3. Fill in the details needed and then click ‘GO>’ to continue with the next step.

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4. New form will appear.


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How to see the Student’s Work

1. Click at the student’s name.

2. You will able to see the student’s sketches.


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3. You can choose to share the sketches or delete it.

4. Click ‘Share’ icon to share it to Twitter or Pin It


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How to send a private message

1. The entire user can send a private message either from the teacher to student or from

student to the teacher.

2. New form will appear. You can see the list of your message. Click ‘New Message’ to

write a message.


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3. Fill all the details needed

4. Once you have successfully sent your message, the message will appear in the inbox.


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How to Logout from your Account

1. Once you have finished, you have to logout the account for your safety.

2. After you have logout the account, the home page will appear. You need to login again

to use the website.


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INTRODUCTION TO COSKETCH

CoSketch is a multi-user online whiteboard designed to give you the ability to quickly visualize

and share your ideas as images. It functions as whiteboard where user can express their idea,

problem or even share a pictures with friends. For example, users can upload an image from

their computer to Cosketch and then edit it to make it look more attractive and cool.

Another thing is compare to other sharing website that available online, CoSketch.com do not

ask users to create an account or register before they can use it. It is free to all and anyone can

use it as long as they have the idea to share. User can create as many sketches as they like

and they can save it online, share it and they can even edit it if they want to do so.

In addition of that, CoSketch can be browse at various browsers and users do not need to install

anything to get it started. Besides that, CoSketch provide image to be used for sketching. There

are various images available and users just need to drag it to the whiteboard in order to use it.

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BENEFITS OF USING COSKETCH

1. Simple Sharing

User can share whatever ideas they have with other users that use the website at the same real

time. There also various website for users to share their ideas such as facebook and twitter.

Users don’t need any permission to share their ideas and with a simple one click, the image or

ideas will be saved and can be viewed by others.

2. Zero Hassle

CoSketch runs in most of common website available nowadays. It comes without plugin or any

installation is not needed. It is also free to use and users do not need to register or share any of

their information before getting started with CoSketch.


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GETTING STARTED

1. Go to www.cosketch.com

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2. Click ‘Create new sketch’ to get started.


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3. You will then be directed to a new page. This is called a room. Every time you access

cosketch, you will be provided with a room/whiteboard where you can create your own sketch

and then share the room with other users that are online. Unsaved sketches will be deleted 10

mins after the user has left the room.


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Understanding the Room

1. The room address is provided in the link. You can share your sketches by sharing the link

with others. The blank white space on the page is where you sketch and the bottom box is your

activity log and also a place to chat with the other users of cosketch who are online at that

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3. Changing username. You can change your user name to identify yourself while using the

website. This will also helps people to identify you while chatting with others.


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How To Create Sketches

1. There are various tools available for sketching at the left side of the window. Mouse over the

symbols to know the type of tools.

2. To create a random drawing, click the ‘pen’ button and you can start sketching on the

whiteboard by moving your cursor.


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3. To create a straight line, click the ‘line’ button and draw the line on the whiteboard by moving

your cursor.

4. To create an arrow, just click the ‘arrow’ symbol and click on the whiteboard.


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5. To create a circle, click the ‘circle’ symbol.

6. To create a rectangle, click the ‘rectangle’ button and draw on the whiteboard.


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7. To type texts, click the ‘text’ button and click on the whiteboard and just type the text. You

can move the text using the cursor later.

8. To move the text, click the ‘Move’ button and you can locate the text at any position.

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9. To erase your work, click the ‘Eraser’ button and drag it over the sketches that you wanted to

erase.

10. Under the tools box, there are various clear options provided. User can chose what they

wanted to clear on their whiteboard either text, ink, stamps, background or just clear all if you

want to redo the sketches all over again.

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11. Cosketch also allows you to adjust the level of thickness and the color of your drawing by

simply choosing the level of thickness and the color. Examples are as shown below.

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Using Images In Your Sketches

1. Under the tools box, there’s a tab named ‘Stamps and Backgrounds’. Here you can use the

images provided by cosketch library, upload your own images or used google maps in to help

you in your sketches.

2. To use images from cosketch, just click ‘Browse library’ and the window will appear like this.


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3. The images from the library are sorted into few categories; Comics, Eletronics, Grids,

Mechanics, Sports and UserInterface. You can choose your images based on the category

provided. Example as below.

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Uploading Images

1. If there are no images that you wanted from the cosketch library, you can always upload your

own images. Click on the ‘upload image’ link under the title ‘Stamps and Backgrounds’. The

following option will appear as below.

2. Click ‘choose file’ button to upload image from the computer and double click on the image

that you want to use. The image then will appear under the ’upload image’ box. The window will

appear like this.

1. Click

choose file 2. The computer

window will

appear

3. Double click on the chosen

image

4. Lastly, the image

will appear here.


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3. To use the image, simply drag the image to the whiteboard by clicking on it and place it on

the whiteboard. You can resize or rotate your image to your preference as well.


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Save and Share The Image

1. Once you have completed your sketches, you can save the image by clicking on the ‘save

sketch as embeddable image’ link at the left side of the window.

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3. The link or address for the sketches is provided below.

4. To share the completed sketches in other social media, just simply chose between the option

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5. Example for sharing at your facebook. Click the ‘Facebook’ symbol > A new window will

appear > Insert your facebook details there > and just click log in. As simple as that


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INTRODUCTION TO GLOGSTER

Blending blogging, social networking and digital creation into a mould, Blogger proudly establish

itself based on the concept of exploiting the maximum engagement to provide a revolutionary

learning experience for the students.

The site provides facilitative tools to allow the users create online multimedia posters to

incorporate media such as images, text, videos, links and many more. The EDU community at

Glogster allows a safe environment for the students to have academic online learning session. It

is shielded by unapproved third party or outsiders that may bring negative influence such as foul

language into the chat rooms. At EDU ares, teachers will be able to monitor the progress their

students’ work. Students can collaborate and interact with one another within the protected

gated community.

The features offered at the site enables the users to create variety of educational products such

as visual essays, digital logs, online literary magazines, personal reflection of students which

they can personalize with their own pictures, research project presentations, online

documentaries and a lot more! At Glogster, you will have limitless avenue to provoke creativity

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BENEFITS OF USING GLOGSTER

1. Engagement

Glogster allows interaction among students as they are able to help one another to complete

tasks. The teacher as well as the students can use the templates to create collaged Web pages

in which the graphics are pleasing. They will also have multiple templates which can provoke

their creativity. In its essence, Glogster takes learning to another level as they motivate students

to rearrange their understanding into another creative material.

2. Learning Approach

With the features available, the teacher will have the autonomy to choose the pictures, videos

and text in accordance to their students’ educational needs. The students will have access to

share their pages at the galleries which can be supervised by the teacher.

3. Support

The support centre at Glosgster is immensely helpful. There is a substantial FAQ page that will

be address to the users’ concerns should they encounter problems while surfing the net. Not

only that, each Glog has the appearance which is reflective of the user’s academic and creative

selections.


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GETTING STARTED

Signing up

1. Go to www.glogster.com/

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2. Sign up as a student or a teacher.

How to create a Glogster

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2. Start creating your own Glogster by clicking ‘Create New Glo

3. Choose the template to your liking. You may opt for the one that best reflects the theme

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4. You may edit your glog using the fully equipped toolbar.

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6. You can also use the graphics which have been sorted out by categories. There are

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7. The preview button is to display your work and see how other users will view the final

product in display mode. The undo and redo buttons are there to help you edit your work. Don’t

forget to save it after you are done.


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8. Name your glog and fill in the necessary details. This can be made as reference point

should you want to redirect your students to refer to this particular glog. You can also set

whether you want it to be accessible to other users or only for your class.


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9. Once it is saved, decide whether you want to go back to editing. If you are already done

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How to Create a Classroom

1. Redirect yourself to the dashboard and choose the ‘classes’. Click on ‘create new

class’.

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3. At the class’s dashboard, you can start class projects and keep in track with your

students’ glogs. For your convenience, you can message all students at the same time. For this

particular space, you have the autonomy to add your students personally. This is to avoid

unrelated person tampering with the dynamic of the class.


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Starting Your Projects at Glogster

1. Click at the project segment at the dashboard.


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2. Click to create new project

3. If you happen to not have any glog to serve as a template, you can always create a new

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6. Click ‘save’ and a box will appear asking you to fill in the details.


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8. Choose what you want to do next. You may redirect yourself to the dashboard to

continue to assign the project.

9. Go back to the project space and click the template you have just created for the project.


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10. Fill in the details. You can also create your own hashtags for future reference. After that,

choose which class you would want to assign the project to.

11. If you wish to send a message alongside with the assignment of the project, you may do

so here. You can even choose the recipients of the message either it is for everyone or only the

newly added students. Click ‘save project’ once you are done.


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12. You will be directed to this space as you have saved your project. Choose what you wish

to do next or simply return to dashboard.


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How to Start Your Presentations

1. At the dashboard, click at the Presentations segment.


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2. Click ‘create new presentation’ to start one for your class.

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5. Redirect yourself back to the dashboard. Click on presentation to view your

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How to Utilize Glogpedia

1. At Glogster, there is also the Glogpedia section in which you can explore and see what

other users have shared. Your search will be highly facilitated by the tool that allows you to sort

out what you are looking for.

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3. You may also check the details of the glogs easily. You can also choose to go on a full

screen more. Click the printing icon if you wish to print the copy of the glog. Apart from that, you

can check the sources of the information featured on the glog.


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4. Rate the glog or share it on your social media account. You can leave a public or private

message to the publisher if you wish to do so.


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INTRODUCTION TO SCRIBBLAR

Scribblar is an innovative website of online tutoring platform that permits either public or private

usage of the whiteboards to be utilized by the users to demonstrate or teach. Scribblar is a well-

known application in the educational sphere across the globe for it has many facilitative features

to offer in enhancing the learning experience in and out of classroom.

The site also offers various features such as chat, live audio, whiteboard, image sharing as well

as document sharing with other users. This could come immensely helpful especially when we

talk about utilizing alternatives to further facilitate the teaching process in making sure that the

subject matter is well delivered. With the aid of these features, teaching and learning will be

much more productive.

The teachers can use Scribblar for online training and tutoring as well as to revise artwork and

images. It also provides an avenue for creative brainstorming. The users can run unlimited

session to further maximize the educational opportunities.

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BENEFITS OF USING SCRIBBLAR

1. Multi-user collaboration

At Scribblar, multiple users can join the rooms and is designed for creative

thinking, brainstorming and real-time collaboration among them despite the different

geographical location. They can also upload or download the images and revise artwork

with ease while at the same time granting access to other people to edit it or even

comment on it. This can come in very handy especially when the students are able to

work with each other to finish school projects such as group presentations scrap books

and the likes of it. At the same time, the teacher will also have the access to see the

progress of the students and help them throughout the process.

2. Seamless Communication

The collaboration tools at Scribblar are highly facilitative as it provides text and

voice chat features. This allows the users to seamlessly communicate with one another

in the process of completing the project. Apart from that, it also enables communication

through multiple devices. It also comes with an audio live audio feature to improve the

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GETTING STARTED

How to sign up

1. Go to https://scribblar.com/.

2. For the new user, you need to create a new account. Click at the label located at right

top of the page.

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3. You can choose either to use a free plan or upgrade to a higher plan. For the upgraded

plan, you can have more advantages compared to free plan.

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5. After successful create a new account, an activation link will be sent to your email.

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6. Open your email and click at the link to activate the account.

7. After successfully activate the account, you will be taken to next page. Here, you need to

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8. Next. To complete the login process, you need to insert your username and the

password. After that, click at the ‘Sign In’ label to continue with the next step.

9. After login into the account, you can see the home page of the Scribblar.


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How to Create New Room

1. Click at the label as shown in the picture below.

2. Create a new name for the room. After that click at ‘Create Room’ to finish the step.


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3. Your new room is successfully created. Now, you can choose to visit the room, create

another room or view the list of available room.


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How to Use the Scribblar Room

1. This is the home page for the scribbler room.

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3. You can change the language. There is various languages other than English.


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4. To start using the application, you need to invite at least a person to join with you. To

invite friend, you need to send an invitation to them so that they can notice it.


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5. Send the invitation by fill in the details needed. After that click ‘Send Invites’. Your friend

will get an invitation email to join Scribblar.


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6. After your friend accepted the invitation, your friend’s name will appear at your

participants’s list.

7. You also can have a conversation with your friend at the bottom left of the page.

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8. When one person writes at the whiteboard, the other person will also be able to see the

same thing. You can look at the first picture and second picture attach below. Both of them can

see the same writing.


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9. For the chat, you can make certain adjustment such as change the font size. You can do

this when clicking at the icon as shown below.


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10. You can also save your chat into your computer.

11. Choose a file to save the chat.


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How to Add Picture to Scribblar

1. You also can add picture to your whiteboard. Click at the ‘Assets’ tab and then click at ‘+’

symbol.

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2. Select a picture that you want to upload and then click ‘Upload’.

3. Once the picture has been uploaded, the picture will automatically appear at your

scribblar’s whiteboard.


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4. You can add shape or write on the picture as shown below.


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5. If you want to delete the picture, click on the picture’s label and then click the ‘X’ symbol

to delete the picture from your assets tab.


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How to set up the Audio Function

1. Right click on the microphone icon on the top right of the window and select “settings.”

2. Follow the prompts to select your microphone and speakers.

3. If the audio setting does not work or develops technical difficulties, you may ask for the

tutor to call you and communicate over the phone while still using the whiteboard and

chat as needed.


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How to Logout from the Account

1. Click at the ‘logout’ label that located on top of the page

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INTRODUCTION TO COLLABORIZE CLASSROOM

At Collaborize Classroom, teachers can create their own classroom online. The plus side of it

is that, you can get the students joining you aboard in a more progressive discussion

stemming from the subject matter you have thought in the classroom. Registering at

Collaborize Classroom is easy. Once you have set up your own classroom, you can invite

your students to join you. Teachers will have an access to post as much as topics to their

liking. They can also upload images, videos and many more! These are the features that will

really add on some spice to your classroom experience as the students will be able to connect

to the materials in a more efficient way and the best part of it is that they can do it from the

comfort of their couch!

The teachers can have their students divided into relevant groups so that you can have a more

structured and targeted discussions. Students will be able to join in at the convenience of their

free time with an easy-to-use private platform. You will be able to garner all the perks for free!

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BENEFITS OF USING COLLABORIZE CLASSROOM

1. Get 100% student participation

An online educational environment was always preferred due to the fact that it is able to

provide a safe and secure environment for the students to participate. At online forums

and discussions, students will have the autonomy to voice out their opinions freely

without having to risk face-to-face interaction. This can come extremely helpful

especially for shy students.

2. Students’ Engagement

The site is designed to facilitate students’ discussions and collaboration through and

online platform. With the availability of facilitative tools, it helps students’ engagement

through the uploads of variety of materials such as multimedia resources, forums as well

as simple questionnaires. It is much easier to organize conversations and promote your

students to have a communicative interaction among them. It can immensely increase

the educational potential that can be fully utilized for better.

3. Endless Learning Opportunities

At Collaborize Classroom, the sky is literally the limit. Students are given the

opportunities to ask and answer questions, collaborate on projects, vote on issues and

share their thought-provoking ideas. Teachers will be able to monitor the results of those

interactions and keep in track with the students’ individual progress at much greater

ease. As the topics discussed in the site originate from their learning in the physical

classroom, you will have a very effective blended learning in which the students are

allowed to explore beyond the confined walls.


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GETTING STARTED

How to sign up

1. Go to http://www.collaborizeclassroom.com/

The website’s

address

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2. Sign up by creating an account

3. Fill in all the personal detail

Click here to create

new account

Fill in your

personal detail

Insert your email

Enter your

password for your

account Click here if you

agree with the terms.


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5. Once you have successfully signed up, you will be taken to this page, which is also

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COLLABORIZE CLASSROOM’S Features:

Home Page

Home Page

Click here to

logout from the

website


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Manage Site

You can see the

list of friends

Invite new

members to join

Send message

to members

Contain basic

information about

the classroom site

Create a group

with friends

Account of the user.

You can deactivate

or delete the site.

Show the reports

of the site


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Edit Profile


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How to manage your site

1. You can send message privately to the entire community or only to the moderators

that host the topics

2. If you are new to the site, you can invite your friend to join you in the site.


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3. You can also create a specific group to make your discussion easier.


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4. Next. You can edit the site basic information. Make sure to click ‘Save’ once you are

finish.


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5. The next label is ‘Report’. This label shows the reports of the site in terms of the site

activity, participation and user activity.

The side activity report


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Participation report


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User Activity Report


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6. You also have a choice to deactivate the site for a certain time or delete the site

permanently.


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How to Edit your Profile

The features:

1. You can edit your personal info of your account.

Edit to

change


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2. Next. You can choose to tick or not the setting according to your choice. Click ‘Save’ to

record the changes.


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How to start a discussion

1. Click at the label to start posting a new topic.


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2. You will be taken to the next page. Fill in the blank space.

Fill in the

space.


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3. Lastly, click ‘Publish’ to post the new topic.


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How to Comment and Vote the Topics

1. Click at the label and then click at the topic available. Then, you must read about the

topic. Only after that you can decide whether to vote the topic or comment at the topic.

You also can do both of them.


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2. If you want to vote the topic, click at vote and at the bottom of the topic.


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3. You can choose to like the topic or not.


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4. If you want to give your comment about the topic, click at ‘comment’.

5. At the bottom of the post, you can write your comment. And do not forget to click ‘Post’ to

publish your comment


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INTRODUCTION TO SCHOOLRACK

Ever since its establishment, SchoolRack has continued to be of service for over three million

stuednts and parents around the world. Recognizing the potential of internet to be of aid in the

pursuit of educational goals, Schoolrack has developed easy-to-use online tools to aid the

students enhance their learning experience.

It can also decrease the communication gap between the teachers, students and parents in

which all the parties will be able to keep in track with their children’s progress in school. It will

also keep the students’ on their toes without being intrusive at the same time as the online

platform enables them to share educational aspirations from the comfort of their couch. The

materials shared can come in many forms including videos, documents and pdfs, all are easily

available for the students’ future reference.

SchoolRack made the prospect to build colourful, customizable website featuring your own rich

content, calendar, files, clip art possible even with the absence of technical knowledge. The

help guide will aptly assist the teachers to do so. Not only that, SchoolRack will also enable the

user to manage students or parents in groups for access to extra collaborative features.

Teachers will be able to send mails in bulk to the members with ease as well as store them for

future reference.

The features in School Rack will also enable teachers to moderate private discussions online

with students and/or parents to address any concerns on the academic development. Teachers

can also assign tasks to student accounts, collect them in teacher’s personal account with ease.

In additional to that, the grading can be reported back once the teachers are done checking the

tasks. SchoolRack is also equipped with safety feature of password protected website to make

sure that the sharing of educational materials as well as discussions are made privy only to the

members of the designated individual accounts.

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BENEFITS OF USING SCHOOLRACK

a. Easy to Manage

One of the benefits of SchoolRack is that it is easily managed for the teachers to create

websites in accordance to their educational preferences that suit their students’ needs. It

can result in a useable, collaborative website that promotes communicative interaction

between the students and the teachers. With the Home features, the content can be

conveniently updated.

b. Visually-Enticing Content

The features in SchoolRack enable the users to produce visually-enticing content to

appeal to the student’s interest. This is made even more possible with the availability of

the easy-to-use tools provided in the web. Teachers can add text, images, videos and

more to help students understand the subject matter learned in the class. Apart from

that, teachers can also maintain as many photo albums as they like.

c. Student-Friendly

The tools are widely available for the students’ usage to help them participate in the

activities within the website. Apart from that, the teachers can use Groups to organize

and privately stay in touch with students and/or parents to help them address any

concerns. This feature will make the teachers more approachable and readily available

to help them solve any conflicting academic concerns. Teachers also will be able to hold

discussions with their groups on the website using Discussion Boards.

d. Teacher-Friendly

SchoolRack is also easy to navigate. The teachers will be able to post, collect and grade

assignments for each groups through their account. To update their students on recent

progress, teachers can send out occasional email newsletter to subscribers in their

Mailing Lists. They can also communicate privately with students, parents or teachers

in My Messages.


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GETTING STARTED

1. Go to http://www.schoolrack.com/ . This would be the homepage

2. Sign up by creating an account. You can choose to sign up as a student or as a parent

or as a teacher

http://www.schoolrack.com/


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3. A) Sign up as a student


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3. B) Fill up the required fields. Once you have clicked sign up, fill up the details required


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4. A) Sign up as a teacher

4. B) Select package to be subscribe


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4.C)Then, fill in the details required.


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5. A) Sign up as a parent


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5. B) Then, fill in the details required.


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HOW TO LOG IN

1. Visit the SchoolRack homepage and type in your username (or email address) and

password in the fields at the top of the page. Click Login once you have done so, and

you will be taken directly to your account Dashboard.

2. This will appear once you have logged in


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UNDERSTANDING THE FEATURES

1. At your homepage, there will be many tools; here is a general idea what those tools are

for.


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HOW TO CREATE NEW PAGE AND POST

1. Once you have logged in, enter the pages & posts section of your account

2. Then, create your first page.

3. This will appear next


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4. This will appear once you have created the page. Then, click the add post button to add

content to your page


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5. After you have added the page, start by adding a post to your page.

6. In order to attach files to a post on your website, click the INSERT IMAGE, FILE OR

MEDIA button above the text editor


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7. This dialog box will appear.

8. This will appear once you have create the post


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9. To view your post live, click the VIEW MY WEBSITE button at the top of your dashboard

to see what the post looks like on your website


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10. In order to edit your pages and posts, move your mouse over the MODIFY icon to the

right of your pages and posts to open a list of option where you can edit, rename, hide or

delete your pages and post

11. To rearranges your post or pages


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12. Use your mouse to click and drag and reorder pages or posts. After you have finished,

click the Done Rearranging button at the bottom of the page


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ADDING YOUR CALENDAR

1. Enter the calendar section of your account

2. This will appear once you have click calendar button.


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3. To edit an existing calendar entry, simply click on the date or text in your calendar for a

textbox to appear for you to directly edit your text. To delete an existing calendar entry,

simply move your mouse over a date and click the DELETE link that appear


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Uploading A File To Your Website

1. Click on POST FILE tab on your account dashboard

2. This will appear. To upload a file, fill in the file title, description and choose your file to

upload.


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3. Once uploaded, your file will be listed under the list of your files


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4. If you'd like to upload multiple files, complete the File Details form as you normally

would. Instead of clicking the Upload File button, click the + Add Another File button and

fill in the form again. Repeat this process as many times as you'd like, the File Queue

on the right will populate as new files are added

5. To remove a file from your list, just click the delete icon next to the name of the file.


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Customize Site

1. Changing your website's design theme by clickingclick the Customize Site section of

your account


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2. Fill in the details required and select your theme design. Click on any of the design

themes shown to automatically apply the design to your website

3. Click on the view my website to see the changes.


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4. This screen will appear.


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Collaborative Features

1. To create the group, click on the group section of your account and then click the Create

a New Group button

2. Fill in the short form to specify which type of group you'd like to create and click the

Create Group button


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3. After you have created your group, you will be provided a special group code to hand out

to members of your group. This is the easiest way to add members to your groups, as

they will be automatically added to the group upon signing up to SchoolRack

4. After handing out the code to students or parents, watch the number of members in your

group increase in real time as students or parents subscribe to your group in their

personal SchoolRack accounts


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5. In order to add members to the group, student must sign up to the SchoolRack first by

visiting to www.schoolrack.com and click the Student Sign Up button.


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6. Fill in the registration form. Please use your real email address so that you can receive

message and assignment updates through SchoolRack


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7. This will appear once you are done signing up

8. Once you've signed up, enter the group password given by your teacher on your

homepage and click 'Join Group


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9. This will appear once you have join the group

10. Teachers can edit and delete the group


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11. To move members between groups, click the name of the group you’d like to delete

members from

12. After clicking the group name, you will be taken to a page to manage all of its members.

Here you can allocate members to either groups by clicking the checkboxes by their

name and selecting the group name from the ‘move selected’ to dropdown menu.


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13. To delete the student, click on DELETE button


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Assignments

1. In order to create an assignment, click the Assignment section of your account and then,

click create new assignment


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2. This screen will appear. Fill up the details required.


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3. Once created, your assignment should appear under the groups you have assigned.

4. To edit or delete your assignment.


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5. To view the submitted assignment, click on MODIFY button and then click edit. This

screen will appear.

6. In order to download and grade the submission.


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Discussion Board

How the discussion board works

1. You can access your discussions by clicking the Discussions or Discussion Board link

on your website at any time, this area of your website updated in real-time as

conversations take place.

2. This will appear. Next, click on create one to create the discussion topic.


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3. Then, fill up the details needed.


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Messaging

1. In order to sending message, click My Messages in the tools menu

2. Click compose to start sending messages


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3. Select the group members you'd like to send the message to.

4. Fill in the subject and message body and then click send message


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5. To view and reply to a message

6. To open a message, simply click on the message title.


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7. Fill in your reply below the message text and hit Send Reply to reply


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Mailing Lists

1. To create mailing list, click on mailing list and then go to new mailing list

2. Filling out the form on the mailing list page and clicking create mailing list

NOTE: You can add email addresses to your list manually whenever you'd like, but once your

mailing list is created, visitors to your website will also be able to subscribe to your mailing list

on their own. This way you don’t have to input all email addresses by yourself, you can have

your visitors do it for you!


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3. Next, compose the mail

4. Then, fill up the details required


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5. This will appear

6. To add subscriber


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7. Fill in the details required

8. This page will be appeared


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INTRODUCTION TO EDUBLOGS

With the extensive number of educational blogs mushrooming all over the net nowadays,

Edublogs stands out with its combination of easy setup and use, strong support and services,

flexible administrative options as well as circumvention of spam and amelioration of privacy

security. Edublogs comes in really handy in keeping the students in the class on the same

page as the teachers will be able to track their progress easily. Even if one is a stranger to the

manoeuvring on the net, he or she will be able to create a blog easily. The teacher would only

require a catchy name for the blogging space and URL as well as customary information of the

administrator and the blog will be available, up and running within minutes of setup. The only

confusion one might be experiencing is perhaps to choose a theme from hundreds of

appealing choices.

Edublogs, built on Wordpress platform allows the users to utilizes the flexible features for

blogging which can highly motivate students to start writing. Not only you can set up individual

accounts for students, you will also be able to establish a network within the users. Teachers

can use Edublogs to positively contribute to a classroom newsletter. The space can also be

utilized to establish connection with the parents and administrators for the supervision of

educational purposes.

Edublogs lets you easily create and manage students and teacher blogs in which you can

easily customize designs and include videos, photos and podcasts. In addition to that,

teachers can also post PowerPoint presentations and handouts for the lessons.

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BENEFITS OF USING EDUBLOGS

1. Engagement

As Edublogs adapts the functionality of blog features, the students will be highly motivated to

be creative and inventive in the writing styles due to the prospect of potential audience.

Teachers can post links to interactive educational games for the students to access and this

can highly enhance their educational experience as opposed to mere use of worksheets and

textbooks. The integration of technology such as videos can also helps students to learn and

understand how things happen. Students will have access to the site both at school and home.

Apart from that, parents can get involved in the educational process and allow them to be the

children’s partners in education.

2. Pedagogy

The features in the blogs could be tailored by the teachers themselves. The teachers will be

able to decide on provoking topic to be assigned to the students. This can be done as part of a

daily writing and publishing routine in which the details could always be altered in accordance

to the students’ educational needs.

3. Support

Even if the users have no conventional knowledge, setting up accounts on Edublogs would be

a breeze as it comes with quick support services. The support forums also offers myriad of

useful tips for teachers and students for a better experience at Edublogs.

4. Privacy

The teachers can set a password and made the content of the blog privy only to the class

members. Since a number of students do feel more comfortable to write with anonymity, this

feature can help them to feel secure on the net.


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GETTING STARTED

Signing Up

1. Go to https://edublogs.org/. This is the homepage.

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2. Click on ‘Get your free blog now’.


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3. This page will then appear where you need to enter your details and your blog details

before you can start blogging.


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4. Enter your details.


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5. Enter your blog details.

6. Once you have successfully signed up, this will appear. This page shows you your login

details. Click Login.


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Note that if you do not provide email address when signed up, it will be wise if you

write down the information because you cannot retrieve your password later if you

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7. You will be taken directly to your blog login page.

Note : The first time you signed up, you will be directed to your blog domain immediately after

you click log in. But the next time you want to login, you either have to typed your URL or just go

to the home page of edublogs and click log in where you are required to fill in your details. Only

then you will be directed to your blog login page.


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Log In

You can log in either by going straight your blog URL or by logging in through the

homepage of edublogs

A. Directly using blog URL

1. To log into your blog, type in your URL. e.g : http://johaneddy.edublogs.org/ and you will

be directed to this page. Click log in on the top left of the page.

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2. This will takes you to the login page. Enter your username and password and then click

Log In.

3. When you have successfully log in, you will be taken to your blog site.


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B. Logging in by Edublogs home page

1. To log in to edublogs, Go to https://edublogs.org/.



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2. Click log in at the top right of the page.

3. The small box will appear. Fill in your blog details there.


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4. Once you have successfully login, you will be directed to this page. Here you can see

your username and some tabs. Click on your desired tab below the username to perform

your next action


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Dashboard

1. Once you have clicked the Dashboard, you can get started by selecting your theme or

either customizes your blog look.

2. Choose your theme


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3. Customize your blog look by click on the Dashboard tab and then select customize the

look of your blog

Write A New Post

1. First, click post on the tools bar at the left side and next, clicks add new post and fill in

the space available.


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2. Next, start writing your post.

3. Once you are done, click publish


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4. Next, you can visit the site to see your uploaded post and this will appear

5. You can preview your post before publishing by following these instructions.


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6. To locate the post you want to edit you use the Posts Screen by going to Posts > All

Posts

7. In this screen you can search for posts by date, category and tag. Once posts are

located you can either edit the posts or delete posts.


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8. Clicking the action link Edit opens the post into full edit mode. There, you can edit the

post to change the title or add more content. You also can configure post options. Once

you‘ve made the changes, just click update


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9. Clicking the action link Quick Edit allows you to make quick changes without having to

edit the full post. Quick edit lets you configure features such as title, post status,

password protect your post, make your post private, assign existing categories to your

post, add new tags, enable/disable comments, change post author and make your post

sticky.


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You can also bulk edit multiple pages using Edit in the bulk action menu at the same time. This

is as simple as:-

i. First, select the posts you want to edit.

ii. Second, select Edit in the bulk actions drop down menu.

iii. Third, click Apply Button.

Note: Bulk edit lets you configure features such as post status, assign existing categories, add

new tags, enable/disable comments, change post author to multiple posts at the same time


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10. This will appear and once you’ve made the changes you just click Update

11. To remove the post published, click Trash and the folder will be removed. All items in

your trash folder can be restored or permanently deleted within 30 days of the time you

trashed them. Move your mouse cursor to the post title and trash icon will appear below

the title.


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12. Other than that, you also can delete multiple posts at the same time as simple as:

i. First, select the posts you want to trash.

ii. Second, select Move to Trash from bulk action drop down menu.

iii. Third, click Apply Button

13. To restore post, click on the Trash link at the top of the Posts Screen to go to your Trash

posts page


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14. Hover your mouse over the title of the post and click Restore

15. When you click on View it opens up the post on your blog so you can view the post


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16. To edit from your blog, just click on Edit Post in the admin bar at the top of your blog


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Publishing A New Page

1. Writing new page

Go to Pages > Add New

2. Next, give your page a title and add your content


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3. To edit published page, go to Pages > All Pages

4. This will appear once you click all pages


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5. You also can view your page by date

6. To start edit your page, clicking the action link Edit and it will opens the page into full edit

mode


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7. Once you’ve made the changes just click Publish or Update to save the changes.

8. By clicking the action link Quick Edit allows you to make quick changes without having

to edit the full page


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9. Click update once you are done editing

10. You can also bulk edit multiple pages using edit in the bulk action menu at the same

time. This is as simple as:

i. First, select the pages you want to edit.

ii. Second, select Edit in the bulk actions drop down menu.



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11. This will appear once you have clicked apply

Note: Bulk edit lets you configure features such as publish status, page author, page

template and enable/disable comments on multiple posts at the same time

12. To remove the page, click on the trash button. All items in your trash folder can be

restored or permanently deleted within 30 days of the time you trashed them.


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13. You also can remove multiple pages at the same time is as simple as:

i. First, select the page you want to trash.

ii. Second, select Move to Trash from bulk action drop down menu.


14. In order to restore your removed post, click on the Trash link at the top of the Page

Screen to go to your Trash posts page


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15. Hover your mouse over the title of the page and click Restore

16. To view your page on your blog, click view


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17. To edit page from your blog, just click edit page on admin bar at top of your blog


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Password to Protect A Post Or Page

1. Click on Edit in the Visibility area of the Publish module

2. Select the Password Protected option, enter your password and click OK


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3. Enter your password and click update

4. The post or page is now password protected.


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Page Visibility: Password Protect and Private Page

1. Using the Visibility options you can:


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Uploading Media

1. Click media

2. Next, select your file


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3. Uploading file

4. Fill in the space below before publishing the media.


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5. Click update when you are done to save your changes


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To Add A Link To Your Blog

1. Go to link and then click add new.


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2. This page will appear.


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3. Click add link to add the link.


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WIDGET

Add widget to your site.

1. Go to appearance and click widgets

2. This screen will appear.


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3. Drag the widget to the main sidebar

4. Next click your site name to view your changes.


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How To Manage Comments

1. Go to comments and next, click on all comments.

2. This will appear


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3. To approve or unapproved a comment

4. To edit comment, click on quick edit and then start editing your comment aspect. Then,

click update comment when you have done.

Click here to approve or

unapproved the comment

Click edit to

change any

aspect of the

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5. To reply the comment, click reply button.


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Activating Plugins

1. Go to Plugins > All in your dashboard.

2. Click on ‘Activate’ below the plugin that you want to use

Some plugins have an administration page where you can set options specific for

that plugin


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References

1. http://www.twiducate.com

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41zMjk0hFU8

3. http://edtechreview.in/reviews/234-twiducate-social-network-for-schools

4. http://www.schoolrack.com/

5. http://schoolrackwiki.pbworks.com/w/page/15034087/FrontPage

6. https://edublogs.org/

7. http://help.edublogs.org/getting-started-with-edublogs/

8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhZXRFoRr9Q

9. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=edublogs+tutorial

10. https://littlebirdtales.com/

11. http://thoughts.com/

12. http://thoughts.com/public/tour

13. http://dweeber.com/

14. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gx-SsPM-Jg

15. http://dweeber.com/

16. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gx-SsPM-Jg

17. http://www.sketchlot.com/

18. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTDGXqfDFd0

19. www.cosketch.com

20. http://www.collaborizeclassroom.com/

21. http://www.glogster.com/

22. http://www.glogster.com/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41zMjk0hFU8

http://edtechreview.in/reviews/234-twiducate-social-network-for-schools

http://www.schoolrack.com/

http://schoolrackwiki.pbworks.com/w/page/15034087/FrontPage


http://help.edublogs.org/getting-started-with-edublogs/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhZXRFoRr9Q

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=edublogs+tutorial

https://littlebirdtales.com/

http://thoughts.com/

http://dweeber.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gx-SsPM-Jg

http://dweeber.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gx-SsPM-Jg


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTDGXqfDFd0

http://www.collaborizeclassroom.com/




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23. https://www.scribblar.com/

24. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0bDYNEj1LQ – Scribblar : Getting Started

25. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgdLJ5oAW9Q – Scribblar : The Basic

26. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPFfpYt0gqQ – Scribblar : Beyond the Basic

27. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByZenKhLVRg – Scribblar Demo

https://www.scribblar.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0bDYNEj1LQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgdLJ5oAW9Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPFfpYt0gqQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByZenKhLVRg

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