beta.mural.ly
Three things I like about this tool are:
The site allows users to aggregate links, images, or files and display them in a board that resembles a physical bulletin wall just by dragging and dropping the files.
Users can invite others to edit murals so it is easy to share the mural with large groups. Completed murals can also be showcased with a full-screen presentation mode.
It is different from Prezi: Users can include content from around the web, including maps, Dropbox files, Wikipedia entries and more.
Three things that I don't like about this tool are
It does not provide many options in designing my background.
Instead of sharing the website to other people, I think it is better for people to download the mural as a document so it is easier to evaluate the mural. It would be better if Murally had a printing option, so that people can print their murals after creating it, so that we can display it everywhere without having to save it in our devices and look at it everytime.
Two ways I can use this tool are:
Publish these murals and learn more about other students' personal interests or ideas.
I can also use the mural to share and create presentations or interactive classroom settings.
desmos.com
Three things I like about this tool are:
It is a very easy way to us the website as a graphing calculator because you don't have to download a special hardware, and it is free.
It is also available at the Google App store, which means we can use this app in our cellphones our at our ipads.
Desmos can make math more engaging for people who weren't interested in it before because it is
ifun to play around.
Three things that I don't like about this tool are:
The tutorial videos are not explaining the website clearly. Students who don't know anything about radicals, trigonometry, graphs or x axis would be very confused at the beginning.
It is very difficult to create a graph with thousands of difficult equations, especially for people who doesn't have a lot of experience with graphs.
Two ways I can use this tool are:
create a graph for a school presentation or as a profession scientific graph. I could also email and share my graphs or embed my graphs at a blog post so that everybody else could see how interesting this program is and they would try to start making their own graph too.
