Student, Teacher & Administrator Class Tools

Here are three classroom tools that span the needs of Students, Teachers and School Administrators. These are all free to register and use.


FOR STUDENTS: MynoteIT: "The perfect tool for every student. -- mynoteIT is an extremely powerful utility for any student at any grade level. You can store all your school information in one place, and access it anywhere in the world instantly."

This is designed for middle school though university students. The core of the site is a database in which students store class notes which they can save and edit, search and bookmark, print and download, and send to their "buddies". There is a calendar for placing reminders and due dates and a Google Map mashup for locating your buddies. This would be one way to 'compartmentalize' school work from the rest of a student's online life.


FOR TEACHERS: Schoopy - Classroom Organizer, School Homepages, Useful Resources & Fun Games: "I love schoopy ...it helps me keep up with my grades and do my homework. I went from B's to A's' - Lydia - a SCHOOPY student in Maryland"

(Pronounced "skoopy," I think.) This is more for elementary through middle school teachers. The homepage has logins for Teachers and for Parents. For teachers, the site allows you to create a class homepage, a calendar, a list of assignments, document downloads, and a message board. In addition, there is a resource section where a broader group of teachers and parents can share discuss education issues and share lesson plans, and an "educational games" section designed for the kids.


FOR ADMINISTRATORS: The SchoolTool Project: SchoolTool is a project to develop a common global school administration infrastructure that is freely available under an Open Source license.

This web-based tool is going beta for primary and secondary schools in North America for the 2006-2007 school year. Currently is it mostly just a school-wide calendar system (single school of school district). This summer (2006) they will roll out the tracking of student enrollment, contact and demographic information, attendance management, gradebooks, and reports. Data can be imported and exported from the system. It is all Open Source, so there is considerable potential for a growing number of features in coming years -- if it catches on.

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