TodaysMeet
This is an excellent site that gives you
the opportunity to have an online discussion or feedback session with your
students or for groups of students to have their own group discussion.
The chat room is very easy to set up and lasts for a predefined length of time and you can make comments or answer questions by others.
While you are having a discussion, people can
ask questions, without having to put up their hands, or feel nervous about asking
something. You don’t have to login or put your name on the posts. Once the room is closed, the discussion is
gone, but you can screen shot the discussion if you want to keep it it for
further use.
It is really simple to use and only takes a
couple of minutes to set up a room.
You can find TodaysMeet at
www.todaysmeet.com
Moodle
Moodle is an internet based system to help
deliver e-learning in a classroom.
It is used by many schools and universities
and is an excellent way to integrate e-learning into your classroom.
I (Sue) have used it for a variety of different
exercises in class. Students can download copies of handouts that always seem
to get lost from one class to the next. They can click on links to websites
that are relevant to the topic.
Quizzes are a great way to test knowledge
and for revision. A 10 question multichoice test only take 10 minutes to make,
and Moodle marks it and gives all the data for the class.
Forums are a great way for students to
discuss topics and communicate and share ideas. These can be on any topic and there can be as many as are needed.
The glossary can be edited by anyone in the
course and can give students a place to look up terms as well
as contribute to the meanings and add new words.
Assignments can be handed out and submitted
via Moodle and teachers can set deadlines for these to be submitted.
You can access Moodle either through the learning@hagley button on the Hagley school website front page or at http://lms.hagley.school.nz:2010
If you want to know more about these tools
just email sue.mclachlan@staff.hagley.school.nz
Todaysmeet is just great! So easy to set up and noone else can join the discussion unless they know the address of the room you have created!
ReplyDeleteThis site is really good. It is very very user friendly to set up and only takes a min. You set up an address and you can invite anyone (anywhere in the world!) to join your session by giving them the URL...or even a student who was out of class. Great way to get people to share ideas.
ReplyDeletere: Today's meet I'm curious as to how this will work practically. I love the idea so shyer students can ask questions without having to do it in front of each other, but I wonder a) if I should tie up a class lot of laptops just for this and b) whether people will use it sensibly ie: will they use pseudonyms to make silly or offensive comments. Will try it and let you know!
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