Learn By Doing

A Lifelong Learner Shares Thoughts About Education

Brave Enough to Try In Class?

Questions I ask myself: Would I be brave enough to try these in class?  Would they work in a secondary school environment?  While I don’t know the answer, I think I might try them in a professional development environment.  They are both in “beta” in a very real sense.

TextTheMob

The easiest and most entertaining way to collect feedback from your audience:
Project polls or message boards on a large screen, have everyone send their input via their cell phones and see results instantly!

Wallwisher

… a new way to communicate, using Post-its on a web wallboard.  This one is not ready for primetime.