Community Review of TodaysMeet | Common Sense Education

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My Take

TodaysMeet promotes agency within the classroom. Every student participates and has a voice - digitally. Every student gets to communicate - even the most quiet. Involvement increases with TodaysMeet. Additionally, the tool also provides a solid, fast, and easy assessment tool for a teacher. The feedback is instantaneous. This helps the teacher, but will also help students who can quickly see correct responses, should that be the need. TodaysMeet is a great avenue to run 'office hours' after school, if there was an upcoming test or large writing assignment. The teacher and students could log-on at a given time and the teacher could address questions. The TodaysMeet Room would serve as a transcript of the office hour or study session and actually help even more students for an indefinite amount of time. A great tool!

How I Use It

TodayMeet can bee used in a variety of ways. This digital discussion is a great way to brainstorm ideas, to set up a quick, formative assessment, to use as a warm-up with a thought provoking question, or to extend the classroom discussion from home, to address questions - almost like 'office hours'. I have also successfully used TodaysMeet as an exit ticket to gage the efficacy of a lesson. TodaysMeet is easy to set up - literally takes minutes. Students are able to log onto 'room' without an account. And the site is device agnostic, so no matter what kind of technology I happen to have that day, I can run my lesson. Students love it - at first a little too much. I usually have to start with a silly or fun question so they can have some fun with it before we can get down to business.

More community reviews for TodaysMeet

Melissa Z. Northampton, MA

December 14, 2016

Chatting on Line

I think if you can find the right reason to use it, it is a great tool. You do have to teach the students to write in as few characters as possible, which is tricky. Otherwise the kids are engaged in a safe environment to collaborate in. I highly recommend using this as a back channel for your classroom. It is very easy to set up. You can create an account and keep the channel open for as long or as little as you want. As a teacher you also have rights to delete what should not be there or to print all of the content.

Eileen M.

November 17, 2016

Give all students a voice and manage burning questions

Have used this for a few years and it keeps getting better. Students can join from home or other schools or countries to expand the conversation. Teachers can really keep each room through paused rooms and access controls. You can keep rooms open all year long or for a specific period of time. It doesn't have all the pretty bells and whistles of some other apps, but it is easy to use and can really have several purposes.

Jennifer V. Lux Middle School Lincoln, NE

June 20, 2016

Meet TodaysMeet

This is a simple, yet profound way to encourage student input. Most students like to have a voice. They like to see their names on the screen. It's a way to improve the content of conversations. The classroom remains very quiet and thoughtful. Who doesn't love that now and then!? Right now, the only aspect I'm not comfortable with (and, perhaps, it's my lack of understanding) is the inability to edit/change a comment. There are endless ways to use this tool! We have a ton of writing assignments where students brainstorm topics related to our big idea. I think using this to open up the discussion for possible options would help slow starters. I will definitely be using it more and more as I revamp my teaching practices to incorporate more technology and online participation.

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