Thanks to David Riley, who created Triptico for giving up an hour on Thursday evening to talk about the web tool as part of the VITAL CPD Teachshare series.
I learned a lot about some of the features of the tool that I didn't previously know, and also how teachers were making good use of it. It was good to hear from David about the genesis of the tool, and how he hoped that teachers would make use of it in creative ways. For example, in Word Magnets you can change the colours and size of magnets, and also save lists so that they can be used in more than one tool. Also adding magnets which are two words is easier when the board has already been created...
He also shared some of the feedback from users and the way that they were using the tools. For example:
Some ideas for using just the first of the many tools: WORD MAGNETS.
- Taking a register
- Adding students to groups
- Ordering
- Keywords lists for a plenary activity
- Mystery magnets: change the background of the magnet to the same as the text - pupils choose a questions without knowing what they are letting themselves in for...
- Adding diagrams or images of places as a background
- Producing Cloze activities with missing words to use
- Seating plans
- Also make magnets so that they are letters, and can then do anagrams
- Lesson objectives or outcomes
You can see and hear a recording of the last half an hour of the Teachshare by clicking this link.
Apologies, I forgot to press RECORD at the start, and only remembered part of the way through....
Also because of the APPLICATION SHARING you will not get the full benefit of the tool, for that you need to DOWNLOAD IT
A reminder also of Kristian Still's efforts to produce an online repository of Triptico activities.
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