Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Todays Meet




I was encouraged by Connie Jesch, an innovative iPad pilot teacher in our district, to give Todays Meet (web 2.0 tool for whole class responses) another try. We had tried to use this tool last year and it was a fiasaco! Connie told me about using this "back channel" to display good reader's thoughts. As we read a story together, students posted questions to unfamiliar words, made inferences, personal connections, validated predictions, and responded to the story. It also offered the opportunity for the teacher to model "self-talk." Well, Connie, it was a success! Thanks for reintroducing me to this cool tool!

1 comments:

Nichole Kunkle said...

That is amazing how a concept that occurs in the classroom everyday and that teachers have tried to keep under control has been named the backchannel and technology has been created to support it. This is quite a student engagement practice. It is a positive thing to hear that the second attempt at it was a better experience. Due to time restrictions, when a technology tool fails us the first go around, we tend to put it on the waste side and move to something else instead of giving it another shot.