Miro!

I was so excited to see a blog post about Miro this morning and the new challenge!  Guess what?  Earlier this week, I was in a meeting with one of my career advisors and we were talking about how nice it would be to use a skills card sort with one of her students.  Card sorts are these fun hands-on activities that we usually do while face to face with students -- it's like a physical mind or concept map sort of a thing.  Anyway, there are a couple of free tools online for values card sorts (neither of which are amazing) and nothing for skills.  So I said to my career advisor "let me think on this. I'll make us something so that you can do a digital skills card sort next session with your client".  And sure enough, what did I do?  I went back to Week 6 Tools and started to explore this idea.  I first thought of using Padlet but that wouldn't allow for quick sorting action on the screen.  I tested out MindMeister but it keep drawing all of the correlation lines which this is slightly different.  Then, I created a Miro account which was one tool that I actually didn't get to explore fully in week 6.  Oh my!  The templates in Miro are quite impressive.  I was able to find a sticky note template which allowed me to create all of my "cards" and could even give them their own shape or color, and create the card categories that I wanted them to be sorted in.  For example, skills that you are competent, lacking, or highly proficient in.  The really nice thing about using Miro for this is that a client could create a new card if they wanted to during the sort.  Don't see a skill that you have in the pile?  No problem.  You can create a new sticky note, type on it, and sort it to the correct pile.  My team LOVED it and I'm going to make my own values sort and occupation sort as well and it will be our Miro Card Sort board.  You can only have 3 boards with the free version, unfortunately.  But I'll take it!  Here is a sneak peek at my board and I'll connect it to the class Miro too 😊