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Ways to use Wallwisher in the classroom
What are some of the ways you have used Wallwisher in the classroom?
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Have a "discussion" on related topics that you may not have time to address in class.
Have students brainstorm for things they think they may be studying in an upcoming social studies unit, then revise the list as the unit progresses
Create a Mother's or Father's Day wall where kids can brag about, and then share their thoughts. Our moms loved this!
Write a thank you note to a presenter, author, or artist you studied in class.
This time of year, have students leave memories and reflections from the entire school year.
Create a memorial wall for a deceased classroom pet. We said goodbye to two anoles. We also linked to our memorial video.
Staff meeting, TOD pre thoughts and ideas. Questions to encourage reflection.
Accountability- say what you're going to do, write it, promise it, check back to see if it's been done.
Insert an image of a piece of work. Students respond to the artwork based on your questions or criteria.
Use it as a venn diagram. Compare and contrast 2 things and you can move the stickies around the page.
Students state their topic of investigation then pose a focus question. These will be used to develop question posing skills as a whole class.
Set up a class 'What I would like for Christmas!'
Each child can have their own wallwisher to publish their 'Twelve Days of Christmas' link to pictures and video
Use a "Group Wall" for students to review how they could do better on a semester maths exam.
If you would like to see a nine page PDF on How to set up a Wall in Wallwisher, then click "View" and use the disc icon to save the pdf to your hard drive.
I am a Maths Teacher and use WW to create a 24x7 online help pages for my students for them to use at home. I have put a link to one of my walls here.
Homework task straight after a class trip. What do you remember? What was your favourite part? etc
At the beginning of the year do a Where were you born and link to Google Maps
You have a visitor coming to speak to the class, post questions that could be asked.
Teachers could use this as a message wall for students, it could be part of the Home Page for a Wiki
Once you have done a little bit of learning about your topic write what you would like to know more about. These could develop into research questions.
Before starting a topic list all the things you already know about it.
Word of the day. Look at the video and write a sentence or a paragraph using that word in the right context.
Vocabulary building exercises. Post a word and students create sentences using that word.
Use this a storyboard for project linking to resources on line
Students publish their evaluations on a topic
Students write a description of their project and link to the video of it
Discuss the news item of the day. Choose a news headline and students have to comment on it.
Students collaboratively post online resources for an upcoming project.
Students write a description here of their published work and provide a link to their own wiki or blog page
Survey your students and they publish their replies here
Students mindmap their ideas on a topic
Publish Student Poety