Stormboard: A Chance for Students to Collaborate

    Hello everyone, it's Yutong here, welcome back to my blog! Today I would like to introduce a very useful tool for English class: Stormboard. You can find the website here: https://stormboard.com/dashboard

    It's more like an e-whiteboard that teachers and students can establish their ideas, questions and answers. But it is a much powerful board that users can create stick notes, comments, votes and structures. Let's see how to use it in your class!

 

Step 1: Create your personal and team folders

    You can switch between personal storm and team-shared storms. And you can also create some folders in each storms and add the specific members who are allowed to get access to your folder. That is to make your work more manageable, and keep your members easy to find and reference.

    You can also use the panels on the right part of the site to easily find your tasks and acticities.

Step 2: Create your storm

    Click “create your storm” and you need to adjust the setup of the storm.

    You can choose and change your template at any time. There are many kinds of template that you can choose from, so your can decide it according to the feature of your teaching scenario. 

Step 3: Add some stick notes

    Click the “add” button (at the bottom of the page) to add a stick note, type the content. Here I added a pink note.

    Then you can move it to any part of the table! Here I clicked it and dragged it to the left side.

Step 4: Upgrade your notes to a more logical and useful ones

    You can build the connection between the notes by clicking one note and dragging it to another note. Sometimes the connections can show the logic of each idea, or perform the structure of the knowledge.

    Add comments in every stick notes. 

    Each member can also vote for the sticks, so you can prioritize students’ ideas by votes.

    These are the basic tips for using Stormboard. Please note that there is a free version and a paid version once you have registered. The free version is only for personal dashboard and cannot be editted by other team members.

    I will share more interesting tools for English teaching in the following days. If you find my blog interesting just leave your comments and share the link to your friends! See you next time!