DotStorming is a simple tool and one that is rivaling Padlet for use in the classroom. Created by a programmer from Canada it is a simple tool that is easily accessible for students to use in collaboration, brainstorming and voting. How can you use it? Here are some thoughts on the tool and using it with primary sources:
* Have students share their found primary sources to create a collection of primary sources for research.
* Post relevant primary sources to a topic of study and have students vote on the one that best represents or connects to an essential question.
* Have students discuss the analysis of a primary source online and then apply that analysis to a short constructed response.
* Connect primary sources to a civic discussion topic and have students pre-read the primary sources before engaging in a Socratic Seminar.
* Have students vote on one primary source that they would like to investigate, ten employ the Right Question Institute's Question Formulation Technique to create historical questions to research around the source.
Need step by step instructions for using Dotstorming? Click HERE
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