Dotstorming Now Supports Video and PDF Uploads
Dotstorming is a collaborative brainstorming tool that I’ve used and written about for half of a decade or more. One of its key features is the option to have participants in a brainstorming session vote for their favorite ideas submitted during the session. (An idea that Brainstormer which I reviewed yesterday has now implemented). Back […]
Dotstorming Gets an Updated Look and Easier Navigation
Dotstorming is a multimedia collage tool that has some neat voting and discussion features built into as well. I used it for a few years but haven’t written about it since 2018. This morning I got an email from the developer of Dotstorming. The email announced a brand new look which includes an improved user […]
Dotstorming Announces Change to Free Plan
Dotstorming is a tool that I have recommended for a few years for group brainstorming and informal assessment activities. It allows you to gather ideas from your students and then have students vote for the favorite idea added to a shared digital corkboard. Click here for my video overview of Dotstorming. This morning an email […]
Dotstorming Adds Helpful New Features
Dotstorming is a good tool for hosting online brainstorming sessions and or general gathering of ideas from an audience. I’ve featured it in some of my workshops over the last couple of years because it is quick and easy to get a lot of people using it at once. On Dotstorming you can have people […]
Dotstorming Adds New Features and Limits Free Plan
Dotstorming is a good tool for gathering ideas from a group and then having the group members vote on those ideas. I have introduced Dotstorming to hundreds of teachers in workshops over the last two years. As recently as earlier this week I had teachers commenting on how much they liked using Dotstorming with their […]
Add Videos to Your Dotstorming Collaborative Brainstorming Sessions
Dotstorming is a cool tool for hosting collaborative brainstorming sessions. The neat thing about Dotstorming is that you can have everyone contribute their ideas on an online corkboard then vote for their favorite ideas. When Dotstorming launched you could only add text and picture notes. In the last week an option to include video notes […]
11 Backchannel & Informal Assessment Tools Compared in One Chart
Last winter I made a series of charts in which I compared popular ed tech tools. I’m now going through those charts and removing some tools and adding some new ones. The chart embedded below is the updated version of my chart comparing 11 backchannel and informal assessment tools. At the bottom of the chart […]