Poll Everywhere is a free website that allows you to create a question that can be answered by texting in or by answering on the computer. You can then use Wordle to make a collage of all of the answers that were sent to your poll. In our class we used Poll Everywhere to find out a little more about our classmates and then we used Wordle to create a collage of the answers we got and got to customize it with different colors and fonts and what not then posted it to our blogs.
One teacher used Poll Everywhere to introduce her students to her lesson on Social Media as a learning tool. She created a multiple choice poll that asked her students which social media sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, they used the most. Her students responded very well to the idea and were excited to be able to text in answers.
I think that by using Poll Everywhere in this way, this teacher engaged her students in her lesson and got them interested in what they were doing at the moment and what they would be doing for the rest of the school year. She also used not only a face to face environment but also a virtual environment in which the students answered her poll.
These activities would be extremely helpful tools in my future classroom. Allowing students to use their cell phones and computers for learning immediately gets them excited and interested and therefore makes them more attentive to the lessons you are teaching them. As an English teacher, Poll Everywhere would be a great way to find out what students are thinking about any literature that we may read, especially those students who would be too timid to voice their opinion to the class openly.
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