Wallwisher

We recently showed my screencast of Wallwisher to Ed 331, and went over its advantages and disadvantages. Wallwisher is a great tool for going over chapter material but in simple terms. You can post the main ideas and comments, but going into a deep synopsis isn't realistic on Wallwisher. However, you do get the main idea across easily. Also, you can organize the thoughts, so if you read three chapters, you can either make a wall for each chapter or organize one wall into three separate sections for three ideas. One wall is also a convenient way to show the connections between all three chapters. In our case, we read one chapter, and each table wrote up their own ideas. We then conversed about the topics, and Wallwisher made it easy for us to state the main ideas and then have a deeper discussion verbally.
One of the weaknesses, however, was that the control of the wall was in one person's hands. Others could post on the wall, but the organization was up to the creater. Another weakness was that when looking at the wall on someone else's computer, the posts were all in different places. It was confusing to understand the organization so I had to reorganize my posts. They weren't organized on my page, but they looked organized on other computers.
Wallwisher is going to be easy to incorporate into the classroom because you can do so much with it. I can post discussions on material that we covered. I can post a wall for resources. I can create a wall where students can anonymously post questions. I can have each student create a wall for their todo lists. For students that can't write, or have difficulty reading their writing, I can have my students type up their notes.