WallWisher

If you want a different way of collaboratively sharing ideas, thoughts, and resources on a topic try WallWisher. It took me about 3 minutes to create a wall (here). You can post the URL on your blog, webpage or send it in an email. Visitors to your wall create "sticky notes" with up to 150 characters to address whatever topic you've written. It's a very graphical version of Twitter. You can embed photos to make it even more visual. (Illustration on this page shows a "polygons" wall.)




How could this be used?

• Post URLs
• Post assigned image searches
• Book reviews
• Favorites: authors, books websites, algebraic equations
• Create an "Honor Wall" for Veteran's Day, Memorial Day, President's Day
• Create a collaborative rubric for a project
• Use the wall as a suggestion box
• Chapter review
• Highlight accomplishments
• Brainstorming
• Class introductions - each sticky contains a photo and short bio
• Each student creates a wall based on a topic or theme
• Feedback, polling, voting
• Collaborative story writing
• Vocabulary - students brainstorm words based on a theme
• Quiz - record a quiz and stick an .mp3 in a sticky note
• Quiz - use one sticky note for each question
• Movable magnets - move stickies to rank, order, match, create timeline

Okay, Jim Phelps (yes, I'm old!) here's your assignment if you choose to accept: Go to my wall and fill out a sticky. Use your real name (I can see the hamster spinning on the wheel in your heads, people!!) so I know who visited. Thanks and have fun!!!