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Group Work Strategies for All Classrooms

Group Work Strategies for All Classrooms

Posted in Active Learning, Blog Posts, Elementary & Middle Years, Learning Design & Planning, Secondary | Tagged with collaboration, collaborative learning, group work, lesson planning, planning

Teachers can feel overwhelmed trying to support the different needs of their students. A group work activity can be a perfect strategy to encourage students to work together, develop their collaboration skills, build classroom community, and support each other. What is group work? Cohen & Lotan (2014) define group work as “students working together in […]

Dotstorming

Dotstorming

Posted in 4-7, 8-12, Active Learning, K-3, Not Subject Specific, Resource | Tagged with apps, brainstorm, brainstorming, collaboration, collaboration tool, digital resources, Dotstorming, Free, group work, resources, Teacher Use

Dotstorming is a free tool for collaborative brainstorming and for voting on ideas that people share on a board. You can place cards on the topics board with ideas or options that people can vote on. Also, there are various types of boards (a collage, a voting board, and a wall). The different kinds of […]

Jamboard

Jamboard

Posted in 4-7, 8-12, English, K-3, Not Subject Specific, Resource | Tagged with apps, brainstorm, brainstorming, collaboration, digital whiteboard, Free, group work, interactivity, mind map, mind mapping

NOTE: September 2023, Google announced that it is discontinuing JamBoard… For now, as of Fall 2023, it is still available… this will likely change!  Jamboard is a digital whiteboard app developed by Google that can be used to create visual presentations and projects. It is a great tool for group work as students can log […]

Scrumblr – OpenEd App

Scrumblr – OpenEd App

Posted in 8-12, English, Not Subject Specific, Open Educational Resources, Resource | Tagged with all class response, brainstorm, co-creation, collaboration, collaboration tool, Free, group work, OER, OER; open educational resource, open access

Scrumblr is a visual note board. It is one of a suite of browser based apps available through the Open Ed Project. All apps in this project are open source. The instance of the app we use is within ‘Sandcats’ a Canadian housed server that is part of the Open Ed Project. All class response […]

Digital Whiteboards

Digital Whiteboards

Posted in 4-7, 8-12, K-3, Not Subject Specific, Open Educational Resources, Resource | Tagged with annotate, app, brainstorm, collaborate, collaboration, collaborative, digital, digital whiteboard, draw, explain, inclusive, interactive, multimodal, present, Presentation, Teacher Use, whiteboard, whiteboards

Digital whiteboards are also known as Interactive online whiteboards. They are a blank canvas and depending on the application, you can add images, hyperlinks, draw or annotate them, upload videos, and some allow voice recording. Several allow real-time collaborative co-creation while some are more for individual use with sharing options. There are a plethora of options […]


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