I’m taking the week off to do a bunch of enjoyable issues with my children. While I’m away the preferred posts of the yr up to now will reappear.
Earlier this week on Practical Ed Tech I revealed an article about utilizing the Nominal Group Technique for classroom brainstorming classes. What follows is an excerpt from that article.
Post-it Mobile Apps
The Post-it cellular apps for Android and iOS allow you to take an image of bodily sticky notes after which kind them on a digital canvas. This is a superb software for those that need to use the standard paper-based methodology of getting college students write notes on paper after which put up them to a bulletin board for overview by the entire class.
Padlet
Padlet is a software 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. If you allow the choices for it, you possibly can let your college students point out which notes are their favorites through the use of little stars and thumbs-up icons. Watch this video for an summary of internet hosting brainstorming classes on Padlet.
Canva
The whiteboard templates in Canva are supposed for use collaboratively. They can be utilized for quite a lot of functions together with internet hosting brainstorming classes, designing flowcharts, and making KWL charts. To assist you and your collaborators concentrate on 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 can set the timer of any interval that works for your group. Watch the next video to learn to use Canva’s whiteboard templates.