1. Post materials and resources
The web is a fantastic tool when it comes to distributing resources – all you have to do on your site is upload, or copy and paste, your materials to a page or post and they’ll be instantly accessible by all your student from school and from home!
What’s more, you can easily manage who gets to access your materials through optional password protection safety measures.
2. Host online discussions
If you’ve ever struggled to create an online discussion space – you’re going to love us. In addition to the ability to respond to posts and pages you publish, Dig Humanities has the ability to create groups – meaning that you can easily create a group for your class in which you can post files, information, and you students can reply to individual items, in the automatically created group forum, or through private messages back to you!
3. Create a class publication
Dig Humanities makes it easy to create news feeds, news letters, or class sites through groups. Create a group for your class, and select “give this group a blog” and you and your students can easily publish news, papers, or whatever content you choose. Best of all, these posts are either public, or private with a single button click – no worries about your material, or your students confidential information being seen by prying eyes.
4. Get your students blogging
It’s all very good sending your students off to blog sites, or even creating them for them, but you need to operate as a hub for their work in a place where they can easily visit each others blogs. Dig Humanities can be used to glue together your students blogs, with collaborative tools (at your choosing), group forums, or even multi-author individual sites.
5. Share your lesson plans
Dig Humanities can turn planning and reflection on classes into a genuinely productive – and even collaborative – experience. Sharing your plans, reflections, and ideas or fears with other educators the world over. Students can access course files, administrators can access your reflections or write-ups, and other teachers can access your ideas – and they can all easily reply back to you! Best of all, each section, article, or the entire lot of it can be password protected!
6. Integrate multimedia of any type – even automatically publish podcasts!
With a couple of clicks you can embed images, audio, video, presentations, slideshows, web video, and audio or video podcasts! No cds required, no coding necessary – just select the video, podcasts or slidecast you’d like to use and add it in your site to illustrate, engage and improve your teaching toolbox. Best of all, podcasts and/or video-casts can be automatically formatted for distribution on iTunes or iTunes U.
7. Organise, organise, organise
Information on Dig Humanities is easily searchable from anywhere you have internet, so finding information you posted last week, or last year, is as easy as clicking “search.” Of course, you don’t have to use Dig Humanities only for pedagogy, each user gets five sites (more available if requested), so you can post little league schedules, pictures of family outings with automatically created albums, or anything you want!
8. Get feedback
There’s nothing that says you can’t allow anonymous commenting on a site (although you’re also entirely within your rights to put all comments through moderation!) but why not think about using a blog as a place for students – and even parents, to air issues, leave feedback or generally tell you how great you are.
9. Create a fully functional website
One of the great things about Dig Humanities’ sites is that they are much, much more than just blogging tools. In fact, you can use your site here to create a multi-layered, in-depth, multimedia rich website. So, if you’d rather create a set of static content, archive of important information or even index for your library – you can!
10. It’s Fun!
We’re all here to bring the power, and fun, of technology to our lives, so go for it. We’ve given you all the best tools the internet has to offer, enjoy them!
