BP12 - OMM Wallwisher.com

For this week's OMM I chose to highlight wallwisher.com. Since I did a workshop this week on digital storytelling for the teachers at my school, I wanted to take a step back from all the digital tools that I have at my disposal and take a look at this assignment as if I was one of them. I chose to use powerpoint to create my slides and converted them to .jpg images. I went this route because the lay classroom teacher would not know firsthand to go to creativecommons.org or have an istockphoto.com account to get stock photos to use (unless they were in my workshop this week because I taught them about creativecommons.org!).

I felt their frustration as I was confined to only using the clipart that was in the Microsoft Clip Art Gallery. Was very limiting. I will confess though that I did cheat on the music though. I went to iMovie and grabbed one of the loops and brought it into Animoto. And yes, I chose to use animoto.com again to create my OMM. Why not use something that is a VERY useful tool?

Here's my One Minute Message on wallwisher.com.

BP9 - Wallwisher.com

Wallwisher

For week 3's web 2.0 tool I chose to use wallwisher.com (http://www.wallwisher.com). Wallwisher is an online bulletin board that uses 'sticky notes' to leave messages. I was first shown wallwisher last summer from a colleague via Twitter. Much like I am doing now, she had an assignment in her graduate program where she needed to gather people's opinions about an educational topic. I was curious how others felt about their Full Sail experience so far. The above image is taken from the wallwisher that I created to ask our cohort that question. To the 18 people who responded I do thank you for your participation.

I have a friend who has a son who is a low reader and does not like to read books. He told us that he likes reading the wallwishers that she creates about different books. Each sticky note covers a highlight of the plotline of the book. He just explains that it is different reading the sticky notes than a regular book. But in her own special way, she's found a way for her son to enjoy reading.

Wallwisher could also be used to create a different way for students to answer a weekly question. Similar to how teachers who use this type of question in a blogging format. The teacher could pose the question and each student would have to post their answer via a sticky note. The possibilities of collaboration are endless if students are working in collaborative groups. Arranging sticky notes by different topics would give the wallwisher a feel similar to that of a concept map.