Answer Garden - simple and intuitive
This week's tool is AnswerGarden. Well, what is it? In a metaphorical sense, the title of the tool hints at it being a garden full of answers. More literally, it is an audience participation tool that can be used in real-time for online brainstorming and classroom feedback. Creating an AnswerGarden is really simple and intuitive (I didn't need the instructions but they can be found here and there is also a demo here ). Who can use it? Well you have probably worked it out already but Answergarden can be used by anyone wanting to get brief (I'll get to that point later) feedback from a group - so teachers can use it with students, trainers with trainees, students for group work, workshop leaders with course attendees, etc. How can it be used? I think the tool works really well to review class material or find out what your students/ trainees already know. In the one I have set up below ↓ the idea is to have teacher ...