Nicole Winston: Module #1, Option #3

Today'sMeet

Nicole Winston Today'sMeet Classroom

I chose Module #1, Option #3 for my first assignment this week. I chose this module because we are really pushing communication this year with technology. I was familiar with some of the other applications, so I chose to learn about Today'sMeet. I had never heard of a backchannel before and honestly was expecting something more complicated and easy to use. It was so easy that I created a couple because I thought I was missing something! When you get to the website to create a room all you do is log-in with your your email address, create a password and then name the classroom. The classroom name would represent the topic or question of discussion. To respond to the topic all you would do is add a nickname and then type your response. 

My rationale for using this with students or teachers this year could be a variety of things. The one I created for this assignment was geared for staff orientation next week. It would have been live so my teachers could type in any overlying questions that were not answered during our Team Time for the first day of school. I really like how it is live responses instantly. They are also visible to everyone so other teacher would be able to see what questions each other had. 

Here is a sample of the two different views for the classroom. 

Yes I would recommend this to other educators. Todays Meet was very fast and easy. The most obvious of uses could be an enter or exit slip for a classroom, even though everyone could see everyones answer. But I could see this also being used as discussion points as well, or as I used it to ask questions. My one reservation about Todays Meet, is that depending on the use I would want the usernames to be anonymous. When you type your username everyone is able to view who typed that response.