BP7_2009102_LearnHub Web 2.0 Tool

The third Web 2.0 tool I looked at was called LearnHub and is found at learnhub.com. This site is a social network focusing on education and learning. It provides a set of tools “...that make learning online fun and engaging, and teaching online easy and effective” (learnhub, 2009).

I have looked over many things that are offered at LearnHub for Educators but I have not looked at all areas of LearnHub in the detail I would like to. It appears that there are Web 2.0 tools available for use at the secondary school level that could bring the Web 2.0 concept easily into the classroom. There are authoring tools available that allow teachers to create material. To do this there are tools including a lesson editor that allows teachers to share videos, pages including PDF files, and presentations.

There are also tools, many of which I have not looked at in as much detail as I would like to in the future, that will allow to create tests and also follow student’s progress and grades with a built in report generator.

One benefit that I am going to look at further is the course creation area. This area allows the teacher to combine all of their assets including tests, videos, and instruction pages, into an area that can be set up as a restricted course area. In doing this the teacher can control those that have access to the site.

Another area that I did not test yet is the live video, voice, whiteboard and document sharing that is available to the students. This could provide a great avenue of collaboration from not only the classroom but from those that have Internet access at home.

It also appears that one of the best things about learnhub is the price. At this point in time it is free to use. It looks like in the future they may charge for the service.

This may be a site that everyone may want to checkout.

References:

learnhub (2009), About learnhub. Retrieved October 11, 2009 http://learnhub.com/about.