Trello From the Other Side

Trello is the perfect site for our OCD friends out there. Say you’re working on a group project, organizing a trip, or planning a potluck dinner with your neighbors, with Trello you can easily keep track of assignments, work collaboratively, establish accountability, and communicate with others all in one place. Users can create boards, which represents a project, to organize tasks on lists. Lists, or the different stages of a project, hold cards, which are various tasks that need to be completed or remembered. The user can move the cards to various lists as their completed. For example, if you needed to make a ‘to do’ list, instead of writing it on a piece of paper, you can use Trello to see what you need to do, what you’re doing, and what you’ve completed. Trello makes it easy for you to establish accountability when working collaboratively. The user can add group members to the board and assign cards. Group members can turn their work in on the site, as well as easily communicate with the other members.

I will probably never use Trello, simply because I’m not a “list person” per say, or if I do create lists, it’s on a post-it and takes less than a minute to make. I can see Trello being useful for high school or even middle school teachers to assign specific parts in a group project and follow progress, but I don’t see it being practical in my classroom.