Highlights


  • Create your own on-line, educational Social Networking communities (Classroom, Teacher and Student Workgroups, Parents, District, etc. There is no limit to the number of communities you can create.)
  • » Over 12,000 Educational Resources available

    » Blogging & Podcasting Capabilities

  • » Daily Lesson Planner

  • » Personal Workspace

  • » Publish Events, Assignments Homework and Activities to your Class Web Calendar

  • » Create RSS Feeds from entries in your Web Calendars for access by Students and Parents

  • » Student Assignment Submission

  • » Allow On-line Student-created Resources

  • » E-publish Newsletters and Journals

  • » Links to over 1,000 educational Web sites

  • » Integrated Glossaries and Taxonomy Classifications

  • » Personal MyNews Pages

  • » Assign State and National Standards to Content

  • » Search Resources by Standards
  • » RSS News Aggregator

  • » Interactivities: Learning Plug-ins

  • Priced for the Educator at only $35 per year

 

 

OurClassSpace™

All-in-one online learning management system for the 21st Century classroom.

Are you an educator who takes your calling, seriously, by looking for ways to better engage your students in the learning process?

Have you been wanting to implement Social Networking into your teaching, but have hesitated because of online student safety concerns?

Has the thiought of learning so many different Web 2.0 interfaces prevented you from embracing the technology as fully as you would like?

Do you find it difficult using available tools while trying to accomodate the needs of education with products developed for general use?

We at New Vista Concepts, LLC understand your concerns, and have developed OurClassSpace™ specifically for you, the educator. OurClassSpace™ mirrors the way you teach. Unlike other technology products and services, OurClassSpace has not been developed with the educator in mind, but instead, in the" mind of the educator."

OurClassSpace™ brings today’s classroom into the 21st Century. OurClassSpace™ provides educators with the ability to create their own classroom-based, safe and secure, online learning community.

Integrated with popular learning management tools, and featuring an ever-expanding learning resource repository co-created by educators, OurClassSpace™ is the only product on the market that includes all of the Social Networking, Web 2.0 tools an educator needs in one accessible location.

Unlike other Web 2.0 products, OurClassSpace™ is customized exclusively for teachers. Tools are easy to learn, teacher-friendly, template-driven, and all use the same interface. OurClassSpace™ engages students and enhances learning by safely bringing the same social networking technologies that define student’s lives outside of school into the daily classroom experience.

Benefits of OurClassSpace™

For Teachers: OurClassSpace™ makes it easy to meaningfully integrate technology into the classroom, provide a safe environment for teachers and students to work collaboratively online. OurClassSpace™

Is teacher-friendly, easy to learn, and convenient to use. Tools are template-driven, all using the same interface and pedagogically sound.

Saves time! Teachers have access to educator created lesson plans and resources, searchable by keyword and content standard.

  • Enables teachers to share their wealth of talent with educators across the globe in co-creating curricular resources, accessible in a shared repository.

    Provides 25 MB of server space for teachers and 5 MB of server space for each student for uploading personal documents and files.

For Students: OurClassSpace™ engages students and enhances learning by safely bringing the same social networking technologies that define student’s lives outside of school into the daily classroom experience. With OurClassSpace™ students can:

Collaborate on projects anytime and anywhere, using blogs, wikis, and forums, with students in their class, across the hall, or across the world.

Create podcasts.

Upload and share video.

Participate in online chats with their teacher and classmates.

Review class materials online.

Submit assignments online.

Receive immediate feedback from online quizzes.

Access online calendar for events, homework and assignments.

Download worksheets and handouts.

Receive notification of test dates, assignments, meetings, etc., via e-mail and RSS feeds.

Access thousands of educational Web sites, categorized by subject and topic.

For Parents: OurClassSpace™ increases parental involvement in their child’s learning process. Through OurClassSpace™ parents can:

Access their child’s classroom calendar to find out about homework, classroom assignments, project due dates, tests, school events, fieldtrips, and more.

Download worksheets and handouts.

Be automatically notified of calendar updates through email or RSS feeds.

Participate in real-time online meetings with the teacher.

Vote on teacher-submitted polls and surveys.

Access classroom podcasts, video, audio and document files.

View classroom blogs, Web pages and other student-created materials.

Sign-up online for parent-teacher conferences and volunteer for classroom activities.

Benefits for Districts: OurClassSpace™ enhances collaboration, communication and interaction among all the stakeholders in education and provides an infrastructure to fully take advantage of investments made in one-to-one computing. 87% of schools using one-to-one computing report “substantial academic improvement,” higher attendance rates, fewer discipline problems, and improved writing skills (Solomon and Schrum, 2007). In addition, OurClassSpace™ is:

Cost-effective at only $35 per year for a teacher account. There is no large up-front expense and no long-term investment.

Browser-based and externally hosted. No software installation, special set-up, or configuration is needed.

Easy to learn and use. For help, users can access the online help system or receive unlimited email support.

Safe for students (compliant with CIPA ).

A mechanism for teachers to easily keep administrators informed about their innovative teaching practices and classroom activities

Visit OurClassSpace™ now, and create a 30-day, free trial account.