Brainstorming+ideas

Start with a video to spark interest, discussion, brainstorming of ideas and themes, debate. Make a store of videos to use, including TED talks.

[|**Wordle**] is a word cloud (or tag) generator and can be used in many ways, eg. insert a famous speech into the text box and you will instantly have a visual summary of keywords emphasising the most frequently used.

[|**Wordsift**] is like Wordle but a little more sophistocated.

[|**Wallwisher**] is a great way for students to collaborate ideas that are visible to all within one space. It's a little like sticky notes on a wall. Once you have collected students' responses, you can work critically, teaching thinking, reflection, analysis; asking students questions like 'What can we conclude' (all the higher order thinking).