MicroMobs

MicroMob is a website used to create discussions, share links and pictures, and offer live discussion. Instead of back-and-forth emails between many parties, this is a simple discussion page to clean up your email inbox. You can, however, email many parties you would like to participate in the discussion and at the end of the day, the system will send you one simple email with the entire thread included. So, instead of clicking through five emails to find the latest response, you have all the responses right in front of you. The MicroMob below is a link to the MicroMob I created.

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I chose to share this particular tool because it is easy to use and provides a similar platform to Blackboard and the discussion posts we are used to participating in. I like the fact that one simple email can be sent to provide an overall recap of what was discussed. It is also nice to see everyone's posts on the same page, rather than clicking in various links and pages.

This tool can be used in the teaching and learning process by creating a one-stop question and answer place. If one student has a question about the assignment, its highly likely multiple students will have the same questions. As a teacher, I would be able to posts the answer to questions or provide a question for students to answer. The students could then piggyback off the topic and develop new ideas. The tool could also be used as a discussion post for brainstorming ideas or creating a place for students to share their views on class topics.

I included a YouTube video below on how discussion boards are beneficial: media type="youtube" key="p3xo1RipS-c" height="390" width="480"