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card file is at work here: lists are laid out on project boards,
you add cards to the lists. And the fun begins when you
collaborate with others to populate, add, adapt, transfer,
and swap lists and cards any way you like. Trello can prove
useful for everything from simple lists to professional proj-
ects.
Padlet (iOS)
This is a marvelous online tool that gives you complete
freedom of action. It presents an empty page that you can
populate with anything you like, any way you like: with
stickers, photographs, documents, commentaries. All op-
erations are done with a couple of clicks. Of course, Padlet
doesn’t differ much from other such services with regard
to functionality (lino, for example), but what is most winning
here is its ability to let you create an individual design for
your digital idea laboratory.
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Edmodo (iOS, Android)
Edmodo is a free educational network for remote in-
teraction that is gaining popularity by leaps and bounds
among teachers worldwide. Here they can communicate
with colleagues, students and parents; share files, create
documents with public access to those invited to join, put
up assignments and quizzes, supplement and correct pa-
pers, provide information and resources, and manage
other functions helpful to teachers and their students. Ed-
modo is teacher-focused and useful for brainstorming
within the context of education.
Naturally, this survey isn’t complete. But it hardly
makes sense to sort through all the applications; differ-
ences basically consist of particularities of design, avail-
ability of this or that function, and formats for export/import
like PNG, JPEG, XML, HTML, XHTML, and OpenDocu-
ment. Don’t spend a lot of time choosing; focus on two or
three and get busy!
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