Greetings! Poll Everywhere (www.polleverywhere.com) has been around for some time - if you've been to a conference in the past few years, you've probably used it. However, have you thought of the ways you could use it with your students?
I finally tried it out with some 5th grade classrooms last week, with good results. Attached is one of the results of the polls I conducted, with students using their devices or computer workstations to reply. It was easy and the students were totally engaged!
How does it work? Sign up for a free account on the website, create a poll, then let your students reply (a free account allows for 40 responses per poll) and see the results in real time on the web. You can create your poll to allow for multiple choice or open-ended answers (or use a clickable image!).
Here are some ideas for classroom use from Lisa Nielson's Innovative Educator blog:
There are endless ways this tool can be used to enhance learning.
1) Set up a homework help poll for a particular assignment or unit of study. Students can simply text in the questions when they have them. This could set the stage beautifully for the next day's lesson enabling the teacher to differentiate instruction based on student need.
2) Have students respond to a discussion topic. The teacher shares the topic and students text in their answers to be viewed publicly or privately by the teacher.
3) Of course, what Poll Everywhere does better than the rest, is polls. Need to do a quick check for understanding? Poll your students. Want them to vote on a favorite character in a book? Poll your students. Collecting data on a science experiment? Poll your students. Poll Everywhere provides educators with the ability to know what all their students are thinking at anytime and works great as a pre and post assessment quizzing tool.
Thanks!
Rosanne
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