"Interactive something" to capture initial thoughts

Sep 29, 2015

Hello Heroes,

I am creating a course and one of the requests from a SME was to create an "interactive something" that could capture initial thoughts from a series of essential questions. Some of the ideas were capturing ideas in a Wordle (that was embedded), using a text box, or creating a sketch pad. I looked into Wordle as a Web Object but that doesn't seem like it will work well. We have done a poll earlier in the course. 

My question: do you have any interactive tools that can be used to capture and display initial thoughts in a course?

Thanks!
Dan

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Dan Toomey

Sure - we are structuring the course with an activate - learn - reflect theme. So, for each unit we would like learners to gauge where they are and "activate" their views in relation to the topic of that unit. In the first part, we did a poll that gave results after hitting the submit button, which worked well. Along those lines, still in the activate section but for a new unit, we would like to do something similar where the learner would input his/her views and there would be an output in a somewhat non-standard way. I guess this is the pre-assessment. Here is the prompt:

The essential questions for this unit are: Is it important to acknowledge your identities and student identities in class and school? Why or why not? How does this acknowledgement affect/not affect student outcomes? Jot down your initial thoughts about the essential questions:

And, time to watch Jerry Maguire I think!

Dan

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