Airbase helps learners and educators by giving them a place to
record and find exciting Web stuff for learning and teaching. It’s free
and created by you, for you.
The simple premise of this project is that the Web is useful for
learning and teaching. It’s useful because stuff on the Web is dynamic,
accessible and very often free.
The Web is no longer just about information. For every piece of
software on your computer, there’s probably an equivalent free Web app.
Not only that, but Web apps don’t need installing, supporting or
updating. That happens automatically.
The strength of the Web is also its weakness. There’s a lot of stuff
out there and most of it is not easy to find, even with a good search
engine. Airbase is a crowd sourced solution to this challenge.
Educators and learners all around the world are finding really useful
stuff on the Web all the time. The challenge is collecting this
information together in one place and making it easy to find what you
need, when you need it.
Crowd sourcing is when we use a little bit of a lot of people’s time.
If 10,000 people spend 10 minutes entering their top 10 web resources
or apps into Airbase, we will have 50,000 great items for you to
search! The Web makes this possible. Just recommend us to a colleague
or friend!
We’ve built Airbase with two free Web apps: Google Forms and Google
Spreadsheets. Google Forms is used to collect the information. Google
Spreadsheets is used to store and filter the information. The
information is freely shared for anyone to use.
In order to contribute to Airbase, all you have to do is complete this
form for any great Web sites, apps, resources or files you find on your
Web travels. The more information you put in, the better it is for
everyone. We estimate it takes less than one minute to enter all the
data for one item.
The benefits of Airbase for you are that:
• Educational categorisation means you’ll quickly find the stuff you
need
• You’ll only take time to submit good stuff so you’ll only find good
stuff
• Ratings and reviews will help you to identify the best of the best
All the entries are automatically stored in a spreadsheet which you can
visit. The spreadsheet has filters which mean you can quickly find
useful stuff which meets your particular needs.
We welcome your comments and suggestions. Please include them in the
suggestion box on the form. Yes, that means you have to submit an item
in order to make a suggestion!
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