This article (PDF) from the NY Times describes how students can create their own podcasts!
With Synth, students can record their small group discussions, providing formative assessment data.
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Virtual “gallery walks” give students an opportunity to view their classmates’ projects while learning from each other. Have students present their own projects through screencasts, and post them on Google Classroom. Students can give project feedback to at least two other students using text or audio.
Using Google Sheets, student can give feedback to their peers by answering the following prompts: What’s something new I learned about this topic?; What’s something that surprised me about this topic?; What’s something I liked about this presentation? The online format gives every student the opportunity to see their peers’ work and their assessment on theirs for deeper reflection.
When station brainstorming activities are conducted in traditional classroom environments, small groups of students rotate around the room to different stations to answer prompts—and view and add to each groups’ responses.
To translate this online, divide students into groups online and use shared Google docs—or Google slides—for the prompts/questions. Each group can type their thoughts under the questions and then follow up by commenting on the other groups’ responses the next day. “The strategy still allows them to maintain a sense of classroom community in a virtual setting.