 Hello, I am Bob Grzeski. Today we will be exploring Verso Learning. It's an app that could be used for looking at student responses focused on deeper levels of thinking. Before we get started don't forget to subscribe to our channel and hit that bell to enable notifications by clicking our logo during the video. Also leave us a comment or check out our related videos by clicking up the pop-up cards in the upper right hand corner. Before we get started we do want to acknowledge Ms. Jeannie Daly as again our guest star for the Deirdre's Channel. Today she's going over student responses for Verso. Don't forget part one. I am going to attempt to show you what responses look like. I'm not sure I'm going to be able to do that but I did a lesson with a group and I'm not sure that their responses are still here. Let's look at impact. I'm not going to be able to show you their comments because it's no longer live. But anyway one of the things that most intrigued me about Verso when I first saw it was a fact that when students go into Verso and when they respond to that prompt they cannot determine who the other people are in that room. The names are not associated with that response and so I can't tell that that was Jeannie as a student I cannot tell that that was Jeannie who wrote that. It simply has I think it's a number attached to it and so if I read Jeannie's response and I really like that idea but I feel like I have something else that he might want to consider or the student might want to consider then I can respond to Jeannie and say have you considered blah blah blah and so it's just a real collaborative opportunity for kids in a non-threatening way. Now you might say okay how will I know if one of my kids acts up and you know wants to use profanity or really is rude to another participant what can I do or how will I know who said it you have a view that has their names attached to. So if Susie thinks that was a dumb thing that Jeannie said and said that was really a stupid thing you said then you can correct that student in real time. So it has that you know that anonymous feel about it and I think students appreciate that because it does open up the voices of it has a potential of opening up the voices of some kids who just don't feel comfortable in speaking out in class and you know when you engage them in a provocative question you hear crickets. Well if I'm in the verso world I might be more likely to respond on first of all because I can't see the response of others until I respond at least one time. So there's that piece that actually promotes equal participation for all students because like I said you can't see anybody's response until you write one yourself and so in verso also has a lot of other features that are exemplary they have an exit ticket feature that's that's great they have an engagement feature inside verso that keeps track of student responses and how engaged they are in in the activities you get a wealth of activities already created inside that library it is an easy program to to use I think if you talk to middle school teachers you would you feel very comfortable and I feel very comfortable and say that they you know whole heartedly embrace what verso what verso's potential is and if you're in high school if you're a high school teacher these kids are already familiar with verso chances are if they've been in attended any one of our middle school so they've had some verso experiences already so please let me know if I can answer any of your questions please let me know if you would like some additional professional development I can create a screen screencast that shows you exactly how to sign up should you be interested I could do a google meet with you that will take you through this process just just let us know how we can be of service to you but I recommend verso for being a tool that really can facilitate the deepening of the thinking of students anyway this is Jeannie daily let me know how I can help you thanks so much for watching be sure to like comment or reply to one of our other videos or share the playlist below subscribe to our channel and enable notifications that you don't miss out on the next episode don't forget to check out our other resources like this cast podcast and see what else is going on at orie county schools be sure to follow at dear dis is on social media or contact us via email or our blog