Wallwisher enables you to collaborate on one screen, or wall if you will, and has numerous applications in the classroom. You give out the url (in the format http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/yourtitle where yourtitle is what you have decided to call the page. For example, year2adverbs, or whatever title relates to your work.
Children simply navigate (Year3/4 managed this fine) to the site and enter their sentence/idea/answer to question along with their name, and it immediately gets posted to the wall. Children love the collaborative aspect of it and can see their work appear when the page is refreshed. I introduced it in a staff meeting today and hope to get more staff using it in due course!
In theory, this is a great tool for notetaking,etc. But I had nothing but trouble accessing the site and got really tired of waiting for the "site managers" to fix the problem. I am trying to think of another way to salvage my lesson. I have students with notes to post but no sticky notes!
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