The document outlines seven innovative classroom activities that utilize TodaysMeet for enhancing student engagement and participation. Key strategies include using the platform for a 'parking lot' of questions, facilitating quick links sharing, providing guiding questions, and analyzing discussions through Wordle. Additional suggestions involve assessing participation via transcripts and encouraging cross-class interactions through podcasts.

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2. 1. Use as a "parking lot" for questions that
come up during the lesson.
You've heard of the "ask-it
basket," right? Well, it's this way
to allow students to ask
questions without interrupting
class or to ask questions that are
difficult to ask in front of
everyone. It doesn't work in my
class, never has. But
TodaysMeet does work, which is
probably attributable to the fact
that students do not have to
change their primacy platform for
communicating.

3. 2. Send links to all students in the
classroom quickly.
Although there are other ways to
do this, using TodaysMeet to
send links will keep discussion
info in context with the learning
materials.

4. 3. Use guiding questions before students
watch a video.
Access to guiding questions can
be made available before the
learning activity to allow, for
example, those students who
feel more comfortable with a
lesson preview before class can
be at ease and ready to learn.

5. 4. Create Wordle from transcript after
discussions to analyze for understanding.
What was most important in our
discussion? A quick copy/paste
into Wordle.com will visually
represent the frequency of
words. Try displaying the Wordle
for a journal reflection activity
after the lesson or at the
beginning of the next class.

6. 5. Use transcript to give daily grade based
on participation
Each transcript can be saved as
a PDF, making it easy to assess
participation for a three-week
progress report. It's also strong
evidence for parent conferences
(positive or intervention).

7. 6. Two or more classrooms engage in a
conversation as they listen to a podcast.
With an inexhaustible amount of
videos and podcasts available,
students from different classes
can listen to a live podcast and
have a back channel discussion
on TodaysMeet without
interrupting. Since we all tune in
and out, the back channel often
better keeps their attention, while
making the departures from
listening relevant.

8. 7. Before a science lab, students record
their hypothesis and respond after the lab.
The teacher can project the
hypothesis before and after the
lab for discussion. Teachers
have the transcript for
assessment and students can
access it for lab reports. This use
also works for anticipation
guides, thesis writing, and even
math solution defense.

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