I love Weekend Review! I implemented it in my Spanish I classroom last year after watching Grant Boulanger do his version, and it has been an amazing add! We do Weekend Review on Monday, which is a simple PQA session about where students went and what they did over the weekend.
Last week, I decided to give my Weekend Review a bit of a twist. Earlier in the day, I saw a teacher using www.mentimeter.com in her classroom. So fun! Mentimeter is a site that creates a word cloud based on student responses. All teacher does is pose a question, for example, “Where did you go last weekend?” The students log onto mentimeter.com using their 1:1 device or phone and input responses. Mentimeter then creates a word cloud in real time as students respond to the question. My students LOVED this! They had a chance to see their own responses as well as what the most popular destination was over the weekend. Because responses are posted anonymously to the word cloud, students started asking each other who went to X? Who went to Y? Talk about student engagement! Menitmeter provided an element of true curiosity and inquiry for my classroom. As such, we heard from students who don’t always contribute to Weekend Review which added a touch of diversity to the PQA session. Overall, I would say this was one of the best Weekend Review session we have ever had. After all, the brain craves novelty, as Carol Gaab says.
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