With Wallwisher.com, you can create a “wall,” post a question, and open it up for comments.
After you register for a new account, set up your wall, and give students the URL (wallwisher will email it to you), students can post a “sticky note” as a response. You can moderate all the responses, too (if you choose to) and nothing will be posted until you approve it.
All students need to do is double-click the wall, type their name over “Anonymous,” type their comment, and click OK. Oh, yeah – did I mention it’s all free?
To moderate, simply click Approve, Edit, or click the “X” to delete the comment. It is that simple!
Here are just a few ideas for using Wallwisher in the classroom:
- Reader response to a novel, short story, poem, or article in the form of a “tweet”
- Vocabulary exercise (you post the term and the students have to correctly use it in a sentence, for example)
- Discussion of a lab experiment (160 characters or less)
- Discussion of an event in history (160 characters or less)
- A place to post anonymous questions – for those too shy to ask in class
- An informal poll – for example:
- What kind of project would you like to work on in class?
- What type of novel do you like to read?
- If you could create the next writing prompt for the class, what would it be?
- What lab experiment would you like to try in class?
- What advice would you give to next year’s students about this class?
- What project did you enjoy working on the most/least this year?
Here is a “demo” page, if you want to check it out:
http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/lamagna
