Week 9 - Speed-Geeking

This week in class I had the students participate in "speed-geeking."  They spent about 8 minutes on 16 different tools:

1. Acer Chromebook
2. Samsung Chromebook
3. Lenovo Chromebook
4. Nexus 7
5. Kindle Fire
6. iPad
7. Surface tablet
8. Write About This (Pink iPad)
9. iMovie (CTLT iPad)
10. Educreations (CTLT iPad)
11. Popplet Lite (CTLT iPad)
12. Lucid Chart (Online, Google Tool)
13. WeVideo (Online, Google Tool)
14. Powtoon (Online, Google Tool)
15. Padlet (Online)
16. Educreations (Online)

I asked them to ask three questions about each of the tools - what it did? What are the benefits/drawbacks of each tool? and What grade levels would they be most appropriate for?

I brought a combination of my devices, devices from work, and CTLT devices make this day happen. I purposely wanted students to evaluate devices this time and chose non-laptop devices that schools are choosing as they move 1:1.

Based on the reflections that have already been submitted, I think that they enjoyed today. It finally let them just look at tools. It was also a good lead in to their technology review projects and spring break!

This week, I didn't spend any time discussing the pros and cons whole class once they had all reviewed the tools, I think that would add a good discussion next time.