Thursday, July 15, 2010
Bulletin boards and sticky notes
This week, I tested out a few different new web tools. Wallwisher is a neat tool that allows the user to create a bulletin board to put sticky notes on. It can be interactive, so though mine was done entirely by me, I see it being used in the classroom to encourage interaction between students. I found wallwisher easy to use, and could add an image, video, or link to each of the sticky notes posted.
I had been using diigo for several weeks, but only for bookmarking websites. I had been unable to install the tool bar since I was using a district owned laptop that blocks all installations. However, this week I discovered Diigolet, which works almost the same as the full blown diigo tool bar- and I was able to add it to my favorites in the "favorites bar" folder, so now I have a Diigolet icon to use when needed. This is great because I can highlight and leave sticky notes on online text that I read, and my notes will be there when I come back to it. I also can add new bookmarks to my Diigo library, even when I am searching at work, and will be able to find them at home. How efficient!
The last tool I worked with this week was the create a graph tool.
This tool was very easy to use, and allowed me to change my graph from a bar graph to line graph and back again with out having to re-enter my data. I can see this being used to help students understand which graphs are used to represent the relationships between the numbers, and also as an option when creating a graph as part of a lab activity.
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Your wallwisher gave me a great idea for another way to use it in class. I like your idea of using it for any final questions, but I also thought it could be great to use as a spot for students to review. If I can figure out how to embed it on my website then students could just go to the unit page post questions and answers together. (I suppose I could use chatzy but this seems like it might be more fun and easier to follow). Thanks for posting your wallwisher!
ReplyDeleteI had not run across wallwisher until your post. It still amazes me how many neat tools there are out there! I like to idea of the any final questions, and sstatemas idea of reviewing. I bet that it is easy to embed in your website. Thanks for posting your example!
ReplyDeleteI had experimented last week with the graphing tools and found them to be easy to use for me the novice at webtools. :) I haven't tried wallwisher, I may have to try it next week and see how it works. Your work is really engaging. It took a while to upload, but when it appeared...wow! Cyn
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