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Description of Tool:
Wallwisher is essentially a blank page that can be edited in many ways to facilitate discussions, brainstorming, and planning. People can post sticky notes of ideas or questions, but it is different from Linoit is that it is not anonymous and you can share videos and pictures. Wallwisher can be used for personal activities or classroom purposes. A person can approve what is allowed to be posted on the wall. - perhaps the easiest tool for kids to use - infinite size - consolidates info, links, questions, answers about a topic all on one page.

How does tool apply to your curricular area?
You can use this tool to post a question and have students post their answers. You can have students post videos or pictures for homework, and discuss many things. For example, for middle school language arts, you could do a vocabulary activity by having students post a sentence that uses a new word you are learning. This tool could help students discuss topics in social studies and language arts without having to worry about citing or formating; they can just share their ideas. For social studies, this tool could be great for posting up pictures of what the class is discussing--all students could search for and post a picture that contributes to class discussion and relevance.

Where does tool fit in Digital Blooms and why?
This tool fits into the **creating stage** of Digitial Blooms if students created their own pages with pictures and discussions. The tool can fit into the **analyzing stage** if students are making comments on a question or discussion posed by the teacher. Finally, Wallwisher can fit into the **applpying stage** depending on the activity being posted by the teacher, such as with the vocabulary activity described above. Overall, Wallwisher is very versatile and useful more many general situations.

Extras:
Students can subscribe to the board and have updated emailed ot them. [] This is a blog that gives the latest updates and ideas for wallwisher. [] This teacher has post 105 classroom ideas for using Wallwisher.