6/12/2023 0 Comments Workflowy colorOr, feel free to play around with the read-only version I make available to my students. The screen shots below give you a sense of how I use Workflowy to plan class and take notes on screen. It’s also possible to show only a single item, if you want to provide a prompt, a quiz, or a set of questions for discussion without the distraction of the rest of the day’s work. It’s not all that different from using a word processor to make the course schedule, but the ability to hide certain information-past days, the day’s homework-until the time when you want it shown helps immensely in keeping students focused on the task at hand. In a way, it’s like having a collapsible/expandable chalkboard whose contents is archived. ![]() Students can also access the list from anywhere, but are unable to edit it-they can hide or expand each day and item, but it’s a read-only version I can use and update the class Workflowy from any computer, tablet, or phone, which makes it easy to note a new idea for an upcoming class. I create bulleted, nested lists by date, add any number of headings and sub-sections in outline form, and paste in links to videos or other content that I plan to use during class. It is image, color, and ad free, perhaps its greatest features. It displays only text, allows you to complete and hide items as you finish them, and provides an elegant, clear focal point for the class without requiring me to format or design a slideshow. Workflowy’s list-making platform is suited to the classroom because of its utter minimalism. ![]() In other words, I use one platform-one set of notes-to plan my class each day to provide a written schedule of each class day’s work and assignments to display the current day’s plan on screen during class to take notes on screen during discussions and to provide students (and myself) with a day-by-day record of the entire semester accessible from the course website. To accommodate students who learn best when things are written out, rather than spoken, I use Workflowy to bring together the usually separate processes of teaching and tracking a class: daily lesson planning, real-time note taking, logging assignments and due dates, and creating a daily archive of class schedule and discussions.
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