I was looking forward to finding Web 2.0 tools that I could use. I was specifically looking for a new and exciting way to organize myself. Spaaze is an online cork board to organize links, notes, and youtube videos. Sign up is free and you are given 1000 SpaazePoints. A note and bookmark are worth five points. Youtube videos are worth four points and labels are worth two points. While using the Beta version, users may charge 500 more points for free when their points supply falls beneath 500. When the Beta version has expired, users will subscribe to an amount of time and have unlimited points during that amount of time.
Screenshot of the Spaaze home page
It could be used in the classroom to benefit the teacher and/or the students. Teachers could use this site as a home page. They can post their most visited hyperlinks, post favorite youtube videos, and make lists/add text. Another way teachers could use Spaaze is as a guide for students. Teachers could set up a page for students to use. The username and password could be the school name or grade (something very generic, that teacher’s could use again and again.) Teachers could use the site to host a webquest or give information about a class/group project. Students could use the tool to organize their own work or work together on a class project. Though the tool is not collaborative, the group could use the same username and password to login and add information to their group’s cork board. Spaaze is a different yet familiar way to organize information on the Web that is worth checking out.
This is the first I have seen of this tool. When the beta version is done, is there a fee for subscribing?
ReplyDeleteI am always looking for ways to keep me organized, and because I am always on the computer this would be great! I like the idea of using it as my home page and when someone clicks on my site they can get information without having to go on a search.
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