There are lots of wonderful business tools
on the Internet, and some of them may be easily adapted for the needs of a
teacher or a learning technologist. Poll Everywhere exemplifies such a tool. The
idea behind it is quite simple: To provide a speaker with an opportunity to
receive immediate feedback from his/her audience. The realization of that idea
is even simpler. To start, the speaker creates an account on the PollEverywhere website; next step is to post the question the speaker would like
to ask and (optionally) possible answers to this question. After that, those
people whom the speaker plans to survey go to the speaker’s account, read the
posted question, and click on the answer variant they perceive to be true. What
is great is that Poll Everywhere plots real-time graphs, so the speaker has
an opportunity to assess the collected data and decide on his/her
further actions immediately. It should be also noted that the only resource the
speaker needs is the Internet connection.
The short video below demonstrates
how Poll Everywhere works.
I see several ways of applying Poll Everywhere to learning enhancement. First, it can be used for quizzes in
the same manner as the clicker technology is utilized at FSU. Second, the tool
is great for collecting feedback from students and adjusting instruction in
accordance with their learning needs. Finally, Poll Everywhere enables a
teacher to monitor some teamwork activities, such as brainstorming or problem
solving.
Do you have any other ideas on how Poll Everywhere and similar services can be utilized in education?
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