Cool Site - TodaysMeet

Last week Stephanie and I attended iPod training from Apple.  This was set up by the district for the recipients of the classroom sets of iPods.  We learned about a website called TodaysMeet.  It is a really neat site.  It acts somewhat like a Twitter account, but it is less binding -  to add comments, you don't need to create an account, and you don't need an email account.  But, you are limited to what you can post - you can only include so many characters.  A teacher can create a TodaysMeet address, and can open it for a day, week, month, whatever.  Students can access it during class time, and it can act as a way to post as a ticket in/out the door, as a way to post questions, comments during class, as a way for teachers and students to provide feedback and a way for teachers to adjust instruction based on student posts.  Teachers don't even need to have iPods or iPads...if you are in the computer lab for the day or whatever, create a TodaysMeet site for that day.  One drawback is that you can't delete posts once they are posted, and therefore, if you post without spell checking, you can't change it.  It is a free site...I think it has been up for about 2 years now.  We have been using it for a week now, and almost daily.  Students love it, we love it.  Feel free to check our posts out - be warned though that we use it in a variety of ways.  It's a constant feed, and jumps from topic to topic depending on our prompts, but the thinking is good.  http://todaysmeet.com/falk-gallegos

Noel