Teachers and their students love this app!
• Export sessions, audio, & feedback to the class! Super Cool!
• Review sessions after and send feedback to students!
• Elevate the voices in the room -- help students to reflect & grow!
• Provide Instant Feedback – Nurture Reflection – Ignite Collaboration – Promote Equity
• Created by teachers, for teachers, & their students.
Ideal for Socratic seminars, Spider Web™ & Harkness® (*) discussions, Literature Circles, Dialogic lesson designs, or anytime students interact.
Effortlessly chart & record students’ interactions to graphically illustrate levels & types of participation. Spur deeper reflection with the discussion maps, instant analytics & animated playback at multiple speeds.
NEW IN PREMIUM! – Export sessions to other Premium users, send feedback & data through PDFs to individual students or post in your LMS, along with their talk time, Checknotes of types of contributions, the discussion map, & your feedback.
PREMIUM FEATURES:
• Up to 40 participants w/unlimited seating options
• Quick edit features to create, import, & group students w/ Identity Markers
• Playback the discussion maps in real-time or fast-forward
• Select & listen to any speaker & view notes linked to their participation
• Export sessions to other Premium users
• Export audio or analytics to post for students or send as PDFs via email or to CSV file to track over time
• Track student contributions w/ Checknotes - 17 templates or customize your own
• Add Checknotes & comments for students following the discussion
• Individual/Group analytics – Include/Exclude participants from the data to see how the dynamics change
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CONFERENCE WITH YOUR STUDENTS OR TEACHERS:
• Debrief w/students individually! Review contributions of any one student in the improved participant analytics: see each time the student spoke & playback what they said, or play from the person who spoke before/after, review notations for that student, participation data, or Checknotes… all on one screen!
• Give better feedback! Take notes or write comments during or after the discussion that link directly to the student speaking and share with them immediately after.
• Identify Markers: customize the groups w/n your class that you’d like to measure, such as grade level, language level, race, seating area, or anything you’d like to see.
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REFLECTIVE DATA AT YOUR FINGERTIPS:
• Simply tap on the participants’ icons when they speak & Equity Maps will do the rest by visually charting the interactions & calculating levels of participation.
• Track the nature of each participants' contributions with Checknotes, choose among the 17 templates or create your own, or take notes during or after the discussion that attach to the speaker for review after.
• The “Feedback Frames” provide key statistics for teachers, students or group members: time spoken, times spoken, gender equity, or customize anything you’d like to measure.
TEACHERS:
• Enhance your Socratic Seminars, Literature Circles, Harkness®(*) discussions, or full classroom discussions
• Monitor & assess Common Core Speaking & Listening Standards, ATL, Dialogic lessons, or seminar criteria
• Promote student involvement & self-reflection
• Perfect for schools with VPP for 50% discount
FACILITATORS & GROUP LEADERS:
• Encourage deeper reflection of your group’s goals, norms & processes
• Give your boss an Equity Check & share how equitable your last meeting was
• Critical Friends Group® coaches & facilitators (CFG work) or in PLCs
ADMINISTRATORS & INSTRUCTIONAL COACHES:
• Provide teachers an “image” of their classroom instruction like they’ve never seen before!
• Revitalize reflective practices for teachers, while reducing anxiety of post-observation meetings
• Make your classroom observations more meaningful & reflective
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Equity Maps® is a registered trademark at the USPTO / U.S. Pat. No 10,553,129
*Equity Maps has been developed completely independent of Phillips Exeter Academy & is not affiliated in any way with the academy.
Critical Friends Group® is a registered trademark of the National School Reform Faculty (NSRF®)
Update - This is a quality app that does what it says it will do.
TextExpander fan
Updated review - The developer contacted me after my initial review. We discussed the problems I ran into. He offered short term fixes (they worked) and said he'd get his team to build more long term solutions into a revision. The app has been updated. Looks like the problems I experienced are gone. The app itself has helped improve the discssions in my Zoom classes. I charted several discussion sessions and shared the results with my class. My goal is to get more people contributing in class. I played back the network graphic that shows who talks to whom (and supporting data about how long each person talks), and I noticed an immediate change in the class behavior. More people spoke; fewer people dominated discussions.There is a bit of a cognitive load developing the muscle memory allowing you to attend to the discussion and map it. But the learning curve was not steep.There is a lot one can do with this app; I’ve barely struck the surface of its capabilities. It might help to have someone assisting with the app while you are running the class. But in these distance learning plague days, that may not be possible.Excellent app. Attentive customer service. Something that actually makes my classes better.[Initial review] I like the idea of the app. I think it will get better. I use it with my 2020 iPad Pro to track conversations in seminars. It works fine for an hour or two. I found it has a tendency to crash when the seminar extends beyond a few hours and/or there are a lot of interactions among the seminar participants. I’ll stick with it for awhile. But i won’t yet rely on it.
Invaluable
ChrisLeeHTX
If you use Harkness or Socratic style discussions, this app is a must have. This app easily tracks conversations, but there’s more to it than that. It records audio of conversations and you can match that in the app to the person who spoke. It has check marks that allows you to record qualities of contributions or type of contributions to the conversations such as “critical thinking” or “disruptive comment” east time a student speaks. There’s so much more. This data can be used in reflection to provide feedback to students and teachers alike. I can do some things this app does on paper, but this app does it better. The developer quickly replies to emails and requests as well.
Keeps Getting Better
OscarRuitt
This is the BEST discussion tracking/reflection app out there. I first used this app with a group of honors Language Arts 7th graders to log participation in Socratic Seminars. Students were engaged from the beginning, and were eager to see participation times and times spoken in the Feedback Frames section.The ability to record and playback discussions is terrific, and the new features, like the non-binary person icon and class import from .txt are great.
Awesome - Add Co-Teacher / Google Classroom Function?
Cphil19
This app is awesome! I only feel limited by the collaboration element. I have a co-teacher and use a school provided iPad that is shared, so being able to log in and share a platform with a coteacher would be very helpful. The csv files can be helpful in sharing data, but sharing directly on the app would be more user friendly. Additionally, google classroom integration and importing student info would save SO much time!
Awesome new functions for providing student feedback!
Send PDFs of feedback and seminar data to students or place them in your LMS
Share the audio, or each student's audio, directly with them!
Expanded seating and more natural maps and webs!
More features, same low price!
Version 7.0
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Information
Seller
David Nelson
Size
59.7 MB
Category
Education
Compatibility
Requires iPadOS 12.1 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 12.1 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.