I love Dotstorming and believe it is a highly underutilized app in education. Dotstorming.com is free and easy to use, which are two qualifications for me to even give it a look. It is similar to padlet, but I think it adds a level because of the ability to rank and vote on submissions. THIS IS NOT A TUTORIAL! It is sooo easy to use, so here is a link to learn more TUTORIAL. Below you will find examples and ideas for using it in your classroom or school! General instructional strategies
Choose the Item That Doesn't Belong- Just as it says, you place 4 items on the board and students vote on which item doesn't belong. Comment section can be used for students to explain why they chose it. AdministrationEdCamp Style Learning - creating sessions that teachers are interested in can be quite a pain sometimes. Dotstorming can be used to gain insight to what the most popular sessions are. Create a board and have teachers create cards with what they are most interested in learning. Then have the group vote on their top 3 sessions. Use that data to create sessions that will cater to your staff's needs. Feedback- Maybe you are trying to put into place a new calendar or rules about behavior...perhaps it is as simple as picking a type of meal for a luncheon. Put your options on different cards and let the staff vote on their favorites. Dotstorming defaults to 3 votes per user but you could change that to more or less. Social studiesWhat's the cause? Social studies has so many areas where cause and effect are discussed. Use the Dotstorming board to gather ideas about what students think caused _____. Have them post their ideas and vote on who had the best explanation and ideas. My favorite example of this is from @BerTechR3 who had his 5th graders vote on what they thought was the biggest cause of the American Revolution. Alternate Endings- The use and study of timelines plays a roll in every history classroom. But what if events happened a little different, would the outcomes be the same? Create a scenario and have your students decide what the new result would be. They can create a card and use text and images to come up with their alternate ending. Then comment and vote on which is the most plausible or creative. If I were... Love this idea from @Brit_Horn_IT. I think it could easily be used for ELAR or Social Studies. Students wrote about what they would do if they were president and then the kids voted on the best ideas. ELARWriting- Use Dotstorming for peer feedback. Learning how to write a thesis statement or use description to create more in depth sentences? Have students write their samples on the card and students can choose who did it best or leave comments to provide feedback. Textual Evidence- Pick a topic/theme/character that you want students to find textual evidence for. Students then choose the quote that they think best describes your topic and create a card. Then the class votes on who chose the best quote and explain why. Visual Representation- Students choose image that best represents character or themes. They choose the image and explain why. Then students choose which had the best representation. mathCreating Different Ways to Display a Math Problem- Give students a math problem and have them create alternate ways of showing the math problem, whether that is through images or word problems. Student can vote on the most helpful or creative examples. Stacy Falconer @The8Techdudes shows a great example of how students read math problems and show their thinking using images. scienceLabs- Use Dotstorming to collect information for your lab. Student can come up with their hypothesis for an experiment and the group can pick which they think is most likely. Students can upload data/graphs collected from an experiment. Conclusions can be written and commented on as well. Some of my FAVORITE TWEETS!
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