If you have the busiest, most enjoyable Christmas you have ever had, you must still find 26 minutes and 18 seconds to watch this video! It is my Christmas present to you all!Just2Easy has to be, without any doubt in my mind, the very best Web 2.0 application for use in schools that I have ever seen. I'm not even going to take up my time trying to tell you about it - words alone would not suffice. Let me simply say that it is an incredibly powerful, yet simple to use, document processor. Think of it as being a... Well, I'll let Just2Easy say it themselves!
It's amazing, it's free, and it's got to be the most versatile tool for education made available online! I just can't wait to show this to my students! Please watch the video, try the application, and feed back to me via the comments facility below.
No comments here .... but maybe it's because the resource isn't free for use in school. Can dampen initial enthusiasm.
ReplyDelete"j2e is currently free of charge for individual users.
Schools can purchase j2e on 30 days approval terms."
Thanks for that, Ray - a serious oversight on my part. Nonetheless, it remains a tremendous tool for students, even if it's not in the school context. I wonder if a homework scenario would be acceptable. Difficult ethical one, that!
ReplyDeleteNothing is free in ICT! Moodle might be free ..... but to use it there is a cost. It might be ONLY your time, given freely, but cost it at commercial rates for implementors - say a low cost of £40 per hour. Does anyone have a realistic cost (in time, starting from scratch) for such an implementation.
ReplyDeleteI use Open Office - but the time I have wasted trying to sort out mail merge for our Christmas card list, all uncosted time. Never did get it to work. Now if I had gone to PCWorld and bought a copy of Home Office for £50 (licenced for use on 3 machines) I wonder how much grief that would have saved (or caused)!
Back to j2e - it's nearly free! at 50 pence per year per pupil. Compare with the going rate for VLEs at £10 - £20 per pupil per year!
Anyway students could use it at home for free and share their online documents with their teachers and carry on with their work back at school using j2e. This would take more time for the teacher, rather than using the forms facility inbuilt into the software.
We do really forget the time element in education. The sooner we adopt realistic 'total cost of ownership' the better. But we never will the ICT enthusiast donates so much free labour.