Today, I showed my special education students a short (18 minutes) video about cultural changes that took place in the US during the 1920's. After the video we discussed what they saw. Then I had students search online for other examples of cultural change in the 1920's. When they found examples they put them onto a Wallwisher wall that I projected onto a wall in my classroom. The wall started with just text being added to the wall and quickly progressed to YouTube videos being added to the wall. Once every student had contributed a video we stopped, watched the videos, and discussed.
At first my students were a little unsure of what Wallwisher is all about, but they quickly figured it out and they all enjoyed the class. The two comments in the screen capture below capture the vibe of the room.
For those who have never tried Wallwisher before, it is very easy to use. To get started simply go to Wallwisher.com and click "build a wall." Then title your wall, choose a URL for your wall, enter your name and email, and start adding sticky notes to the wall. Sticky notes added to a Wallwisher wall can contain up to 160 characters of text plus links to images and videos. You can choose to make your wall private or public. If you choose the public option anyone can quickly add sticky notes to your wall. If you want to approve additions to the wall before they appear, that's an option too. Choosing the public settings is allows for the quickest set-up and use of Wallwisher as you only need to give students the URL of your wall in order for them to add notes to the wall.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Building a Video Collage With Wallwisher
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9 comments:
This is great way of engaging students through universal design. Well done!
This is a fun way to write class thank-you's too. Last time we had a guest speaker we made a wallwisher thanking her for her time. Each of the kids wrote a quick note and all I had to do was send her the address via e-mail.
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I used Wallwisher once with my seniors (all boys) and didn't select "I want to approve every post before it shows up on the wall" before I did. I won't do that again. Since Wallwisher lets contributors self-identify, my students figured out rather quickly that they could write really inappropriate things and post them as though they were someone else.
I LOVE this idea for my Intermediate students. I am going to do something this week using your idea. I was familiar with Wallwisher, but you always have the greatest suggestions. I would not be the tech teacher I am if I didn't have my FreeTech4Teachers subscription. Thank you so much for your time and dedication. I know you don't have a clue of how far reaching your impact is.
Kristen,
Thank you.
Jeff,
That's another good idea.
MrSiewert,
I could see that happening with some of the boys in one of my classes too. I guess "boys will be boys."
NIna,
Thank you for your kind words. I'm happy to hear that I'm helping.
This was so simple to set up. My kids will love leaving notes about the books they are reading. I'd also thought about using it like an "electronic" suggestion box.
We just finished our unit on the 1920's-this would have been so good to use!
I have heard of wallwisher before, but wasn't sure how to really use it in the classroom. Thanks for both posts!
Can't embed my wallwisher to my google webpage. Do you know why?
https://sites.google.com/a/flagstaffacademy.org/terrirehthirdgrade/
Thanks Richard, I am trying this with some of my Resource Room students. Those 160 character limits really help focus the comments.
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