My Cacoo Experience

Cacoo is a fun and easy web 2.0 tool that allows teachers and students to come together and collaborate their ideas and creativity skills. This tool is a useful way to create online concept maps. There are various options to choose from; in terms of designs, fonts, colors, styles, etc. Concept maps allow students to jot-down their thoughts and ideas while allowing the teacher to analyze the thought process of the student. It is a tool that promotes constructive teaching and learning styles as students are encouraged to expand on what they know.

Here is a picture of a quick concept map a classmate and myself put together. It was not only fun working with another person in exploring this tool but it made it that much more enjoyable! Of course like any other web tool you need a bit of time to get used to it, but afterwards, I found cacoo to be quite easy to operate around. There were tonnes of neat designs to choose from and a great tool to encourage group work within an active learning environment!

Another member in my class did a blog about Cacoo as well. He provided some really useful information; both positive and negative. He also provided a great photo of a concept map he made himself. Check it out here! 

Google Form Questionnaire

Here is a link to a quick questionnaire. Feel free to check it out!

If you would like direct access to the site to make one for yourself click here.

I created this questionnaire using the google documents app. This app enables its users to create various kinds of online documents such as google docs, sheets or even slides for presentations, work and so on. Google documents allows you to create and format documents such as spreadsheets or questionnaires as well as collaborate with others at the same time or afterwards. This app can save you a lot of time as you can create and share the document without having to physically deliver it or wait on responses. It is an easy and efficient way to organize, arrange and collect information! This tool is useful for teachers as it lets them gather information about students and analyze it quickly or even collaboratively gather and discuss findings amongst other colleagues. This tactic will make the learning environment more efficient and successful!