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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.
And I always thought that Kahoot was a game to play at Christmas. Well actually it is now a great free online gaming system with their students. Kahoot!’s learning games (“kahoots”) can be created easily, for any subject. As Kahoot! may be played using any device, desktop or laptop with a web browser, it is perfect in class in combination with mobile devices.
Sign up for a free Kahoot account
Watch the video ‘a 5 minute guide to Kahoot’
I am old enough to remember the large suitcases full of little devices that were handed out to students who could then use them to vote in class in response to questions posed by the lecturer taking the class. The cumulative class responses could be magically displayed at the front on the big screen.
These days there are handy web based systems like Polleverywhere that can be used in place of the clickers. relying on the student’s own smart devices, polls authored in polleverywhere can be downloaded as aPowerpoint slide for use in class. Alternatively the poll can be delivered fully online hosted by Polleverywhere. A third more recently developed way to use Polleverywhere is to wrap it up with the use of Twitter. The poll can be tweeted to a twitter stream and respondents can answer by tweeting.
And, to top it all, Polleverywhere is free to use for class sizes up to 30.
In class voting can be an integral component of a SMART teaching strategy. Find out more at polleverywhere.com
This short video describes a very simple and straightforward use of Padlet to help to shape a classroom session with a large group of students. Take al ook and see if it is an approach that could work in your context – either with large or small group.
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