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what is dotstorming?

Dotstorming is a space that offers a collection of tools for real-time group brainstorming, planning, and decision making. It is a multimedia collage tool that has some neat voting and discussion features built into as well.

Functionally, Dotstorming is the same as it ever was in terms of functionality. You can still create a collaborative board where you and your students can add notes and pictures. Dotstorming still lets you have chats on shared boards and still lets you vote for your favorite note or image added to your collaborative board.

What's changed is that it's now much more obvious where to click to create boards, to create notes, to vote, and to chat. Previously, most of those features were "hidden" in drop-down menus.

Dotstorming still provides teachers with tools to disable chat and or voting. It's possible to disable chat while still having the voting function turned on. (Source)

Created by J Huff

The Tasks

Applications for Education

The value of Dotstorming in an online or in-person classroom is that it allows you to gather ideas or answers to a problem from your students and then have your students vote for the favorite idea or answer. Those vote totals can then be the basis for discussions with the whole class or in small groups. (Source)

Get Started in 4 simple steps:

Step 1 – Create a Dotstorming board
Step 2 – Invite participants
Step 3 – Add your ideas
Step 4 – Vote on the ideas you like

Earn Your Badge:

Start by going to Dotstorming.
Before assigning to your students:
- Make sure that you go into the account settings (three lines in the top right) and DISABLE COMMENTING.
Create a new voting board, new wall, or new collage to be used with your students.
Submit a screenshot of your board, including responses to the Google Form provided below. You could also click INVITE VIA LINK and share to the form below.

Resource:

Dotstorming Tutorials

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