We used this website at our inservice on Friday. I love it and immediately started thinking of how to use it in the classroom. Emundo is similar to Facebook with all the control features a teacher would LOVE. I personally believe that FB and Twitter should not be blocked from students and teachers using in the classroom.
Meetingwords is a chat room you can have your students access while they are watching a film or video clip or even when you are having a debate and want to allow students another venue to share their thoughts and ideas. I had government students watch the last GOP debate and use Meetingwords during it to discuss what was being said. In addition they has to keep track of the issues being discussed on a handout. It was amazing how they could do ALL three and still find time to chat with their friends way in the corner of the screen LOL.
This is a great idea and a great tool! I was curious, I've been reading on some issues correlating the use of computers/internet and students that have ADD, since you are a teacher, do you think that it keeps them more focused? Is it more helpful?
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