Combining the best of technology with the best of people, in and outside of the classroom
I saw this tool being used during a presentation for the first time last week. It is basically a polling tool, a little like Polleverywhere, however I saw it being used in a slightly different way to how I have seen Polleverywhere used.
As participants entered single words in response to a question from the presenter, a Wordle representing the audience’s collective opinion was generated dynamically on the room presentation screen.
Fund out about Mentimeter here.
Online collaboration on documents for example (or spreadsheets or slide presentations) is still not something many instinctively do. Most staff are a very much still locked into working with software on their computer and saving local rather than in the cloud. Oh yes – and then emailing whatever they have produced out to everyone for input or comment. Not great as of course, everyone could wind up with a different version of the same file.
So cloud-based collaboration is a great thing if one can get everyone in a group into using it.
There are of course 2 bid players in this area – Microsoft and Google. Which do you think is the best? If you haven’t used either and want to know more check out these tutorials for Microsoft and these for Google.
One big advantage that Google has over Microsoft – Google is all free!!!
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