This website was designed by a teacher, for teachers. It provides the students with blogs that they can use as a journal that can only be seen by their teacher and classmates (if the teacher allows). Each student is given a username and password. There are some neat features included within.
- Identity Masking: Students post their blogs online so outsiders can see. Their true names are scrambled which makes their identity hidden from the outside world.
- Homework Mode: The student is able to edit and fine tune their work before it is published for their classmates to view.
- Student Edit: This feature can be turned off so the student can not edit their work if they publish it.
- Stealth Topic Blogs: Teacher and student can only view and comment on the student's blog until it is final. It is then open for all of the students to view and comment.
- Lock Topic Blogs: Teachers can lock a post until the students get to class and then the students will be allowed to comment.
Teachers can grade assignments and comment on them to offer guidance. The site also has its own emailing system. Students and teacher can email through the site instead of through personal emails.
Above is the video of what the students see when they log into classchatter.com. After looking over the tutorial of the teacher's view (which is featured on the website), the website looks very user friendly. It walks you through the steps as you are filling in the information.
This website would be great for students with hearing problems. The teacher can constantly communicate with the student about the students work. This also helps students who need differentiation with completing their assignments. They can use a program like dragon software to type their assignments and post them on this site.
Overall, I love that this site is free to use and there is no advertising that the students can see. I also love that the names are jumbled so outsiders can not see who posts.
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