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Beth Dichter
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Verso is a new tool that come to us from teachers in Australia. It provides teachers the ability to create a 'challenge' and provide a prompt, which may be a video, document, website, etc. Add some thought provoking questions and students may answer within Verso. Students must post their own answer before they can respond to others, and all answers are anonymous.
Verso provides a number of resources to help you get started, including:
* Getting Started - This section "shows you how to Verso in 90 seconds", providing a number of examples (and you may choose one to try with your students).
* Strategies to Support Deeper Thinking - This section is very robust, and it is worth the time to check it out. They provide nine strategies to support deeper thinking, including:
- Ask for more than one type of response from your student
- Be explicit about how you want your students to respond, model an answer in your instruction
- Be provocative to promote debate amongst your students
- Let your students answer the questions. This section has an excellent resource "Asking Googleable vs NonGoogleable Questions"
*Verso Strategies: Building Deeper Collaboration Using Google Drive
* How To - Discover a range of videos and examples to help you get started
* Example Provocations - Find a wide variety of examples that you may choose to use.
They also have a blog that provides additional resources.
Their website uses three key words: Challenge, Engage, Learn. This website will allow your students to be challenged, engaged and learn and is worth taking some time to explore.
cool tool