I’m taking the week off to do a bunch of enjoyable issues with my children. Whereas I’m away the preferred posts of the yr thus far will reappear.
Earlier this week on Sensible Ed Tech I revealed an article about utilizing the Nominal Group Method for classroom brainstorming periods. What follows is an excerpt from that article.
Submit-it Cellular Apps
The Submit-it cell apps for Android and iOS allow you to take an image of bodily sticky notes after which kind them on a digital canvas. It is a useful gizmo for many who wish to use the normal paper-based technique of getting college students write notes on paper after which publish them to a bulletin board for overview by the entire class.
Padlet
Padlet is a instrument that I’ve been utilizing for greater than a decade. It allows you to create a digital bulletin board or cork board to which your college students can add digital sticky notes. Their notes can embody textual content, footage, video, and audio recordsdata. In the event you allow the choices for it, you’ll be able to let your college students point out which notes are their favorites by utilizing little stars and thumbs-up icons. Watch this video for an outline of internet hosting brainstorming periods on Padlet.
Canva
The whiteboard templates in Canva are supposed for use collaboratively. They can be utilized for a wide range of functions together with internet hosting brainstorming periods, designing flowcharts, and making KWL charts. That will help you and your collaborators give attention to the duty at hand, Canva has added a timer choice to the whiteboard templates. The timer is discovered within the backside, left nook of the templates. You possibly can set the timer of any interval that works to your group. Watch the next video to learn to use Canva’s whiteboard templates.

