Backchannels & Tools for Participatory Learning

Tips:

• The Beginner’s Guide to the Hashtag by Mashable
• View a sample Tackkboard (a collection of Tackks that include the same tag)   Tackk has closed its doors. 🙁

Showcases:

Tools for Participatory Learning Environments:

• Google Suite (Google Apps)
  • Drive – store your files
  • Docs – create, edit, and collaborate on documents
  • Sheets – create, edit and collaboration on spreadsheets
  • Slides – create, edit, and collaborate on presentations
  • Forms – collect and organize information
  • Hangouts – live video, voice, and messaging
  • Jamboard (coming soon!) – a visual collaboration space
• Slack – a communication tool for teams
• Padlet – post to a digital bulletin board from a phone without an account
  • Try a sample Padlet!
• Poll Everywhere – student response software
• Tackk – simple, embeddable webpages with a social stream for comments
  • View a sample Tackk
  • View a sample Tackkboard (a collection of Tackks that include the same tag)
  • Tackk has closed its doors. 🙁
• ThingLink – make images interactive
  • Try a ThingLink example!
• TodaysMeet – temporary digital rooms for backchannels
• Twitter
  • The Teacher’s Guide for Twitter by Edudemic
• VoiceThread – asynchronous voice and video conversations around media
  • Tip: All new VoiceThread accounts start as “free.” After you create 5 VoiceThreads, you will be prompted to upgrade to a premium license.
  • Video: Demonstration of VoiceThread’s Doodle Feature (used here by a student for a formative assessment)
  • Sample VoiceThread:  Formative assessment for History of Photography class, “The Wet Plate Process and Other Mid-19th Century Photographic Advancements“
  • Virtual Field Trips with VoiceThread Mobile App!, blog post (and video of student comment) by Jaime Hannans, nursing faculty at CSU Channel Islands
  • Faculty Support Toolkit for VoiceThread, from CSU Channel Islands

Content Curation Tools

• Pocket
• Diigo
• Evernote
• Pinterest
• Scoop.it

Resources:

• Video: The Egyptian Revolution on Twitter (a visualization) by André Panisson, the Computer Science Department at the University of Turin and the ISI Foundation in Turin.