We recently read the story "Satchmo's Blues," which teaches about the life of famous musician, Louis Armstrong. In the story, Satchmo resold onions that he had found in the garbage so that he could buy his horn. The fourth question (Q4) of our #storychat asked students the things they would do to make money when saving for an item. You can read some of the answers below.
- I randomly choose a student that would like the responsibility of moderating the discussion. They are given a list of questions and an approximate timeline for questioning.
- The classroom is silent during the chat. All communication is done only on the site. One time I even had students do this while I was at a meeting.
- Setting up the class for the chat literally take 10 seconds. I set up this one by typing in www.todaysmeet.com/satchmo and then I wrote it on the board.
Using the website TodaysMeet has been a great way to promote participation and class discussion about what we read about in my class. I highly recommend it!
* You can also read about how I use TodaysMeet for participation during class movies.
