Tech Tuesday
Giving Your Students a Voice with Technology
Webtools That Give Your Students a Voice...
Voki
It is easy to make a voki...
Exciting Ways to Use Voki in the Classroom...
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Today's Meet - www.todaysmeet.com
TodaysMeet is the premier backchannel chat platform for classroom teachers and learners. Designed for teachers, TodaysMeet takes great care to respect the needs and privacy of students while giving educators the tools for success. Students join fast, easy to start rooms with no sign up, and can immediately start powerful conversations that augment the traditional classroom.
Here are some of the key benefits of using backchannels in your classroom
2. Students who process information by asking a lot of questions can ask an unlimited amount of questions without dominating the classroom conversation. Everyone can see their questions and you can choose when to address their questions.
3. Gauge your students' interest in and or prior knowledge of a topic.
4. Extend your classroom conversations beyond the time in your school's schedule. If you have started a backchannel during a classroom conversation and it's going well you don't have to worry about running out of time because you can have students continue the dialogue later in the day. Students who thing of a question or comment later in the day can add them without having to wait until the next class meeting to share that question or comment.
5. Gauge the effectiveness of an activity in real time. By having students share questions and comments during an activity, you can get an immediate sense of the effectiveness of that activity by gathering feedback from all of your students.
*from freetech4teachers.com
Answer Garden - answergarden.ch
AnswerGarden is a new minimalistic feedback tool. Plant a question and invite participants to your AnswerGarden. Their answers will instantly form a growing word cloud! Use AnswerGarden for real time audience participation, online brainstorming and classroom feedback. AnswerGarden has many different users: classroom, conference and corporate audiences, creative teams, online crowds, mindmappers, and more! AnswerGarden fits educational, professional and creative purposes, is standalone and embeddable, and shows thousands of answers in a glance!
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