Bolotweet, social network for the classroom.
Engineers of the faculty of Informatic science of the Complutensian University of Madrid (UCM) (Spain) they have developed Bolotweet, an application that is used during the last few minutes of class to check the level of understanding of the students about what they have just learn.
It uses the idea of microannotations or twits, that is to say, very brief texts that are evaluated by the teacher using a scale of 0 to 3.
The student dedicate last the ten minutes of class to write an idea of 170 characters that summarizes some of what was said by the teacher. Then uploads it to the cloud using a laptop or smartphone.
The teachers can go evaluating ideas that are uploaded on the fly or end evaluate
the ideas of the previous class. They scored annotations always and when the content is understood, is
concrete and original.
The tool turns out to them very useful to the professors to identify, in each class, how the students are acquiring concepts. Also aid to these at the time of preparing its examinations.
Electronic reference:
http://noticiasdelaciencia.com/not/21760/disenan-una-red-social-para-el-aula/
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