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A Fun Way to Answer a Question
Hello to everyone who is checking out my blog! Today's site is called Answer Garden . This is a neat way to communicate within your classroom. Answer Garden allows you to ask a question and then students can type in and submit their answers. It works similar to a Wordle in that the more times an answer is given the larger the answer will appear in the display. You can also hover over a word in the Garden and see how many times that word was entered by students. The Answer Garden can be shared with students using a URL or it can be embedded into a wiki or blog! I used it yesterday with our students during vocabulary practice in reading. Our students were finding words that had a similar meaning to the word analyze. I asked the students, "What is your favorite word for analyze?" You can check out our Answer Garden on our class wiki ! I have created a series of screen captures to show you how to set up an A...
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I'm excited to try this out - then let the kids try it out. Did your students try this on their own?
The video did include my family. Ryan is the mad scientist and the Frankenstein, Robert is the werewolf, Tim is the Dracula and of course I am the woman with the tall hair! No, we did not let our students try this out, but Vicki said she plans to let her students give it a try!