Mentimeter | Interact with your audience

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Mentimeter is another option for educators as an alternative to purchasing expensive student response systems or 'clicker' sets for their classrooms.

Mentimeter is much more simple than Poll Everywhere or Socrative, but I don't see where you can do anything else with your results beyond displaying them as voting is happening. It remembers your questions, but you can't export the data to a spreadsheet for later analysis.

It's attractive, simple to set up and simple for your audience to vote (which can be tough with the other options out there), and you don't even need to set up an account before you use it. With simplicity comes a cost. There is no option for text-message voting - you can only vote via a web page. So, the simple feature phones that many of your students probably have will not work.

With that in mind, I like it a lot. Give it a try!

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I Have a Projector... Now What?

Below is a PDF version of the Projector Do's and Don'ts presentation today. All of the underlined links are active and will take you to the sites and resoursorces presented, so you will hopefully not need to scribble a bunch of notes and URL's 

Click here to download:
Projector_Do's_&_Don'ts_for_GPA.pdf (6.09 MB)
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Socrative Student Response System - Better Than Poll Everywhere?

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Socrative is a very intriguing new (to me, anyway) tool for formative assessment, quizzes, polls, and other classroom interactions that is easy to set up, easy for students to access, and best of all - free.

It is much more flexible and ready to use 'on the fly' than other services I've heavily endorsed before (Poll Everywhere) in that you can simply open up a multiple-choice or open-ended question for student responses without having to build the question first (Ever wanted to capture individual responses from an entire class on a UTIPS test/quiz in your classroom??)

Socrative has a great tool for building mixed multiple-choice and short answer question quizzes where the results are not displayed on the board (Teacher's screen on projector) that can be teacher- or student-paced. The answers are collected, multiple coice questions are graded, and you can have the results downloaded in an Excel file, viewed as a Google Doc, or simply emailed to you.

You can also do True/False, quick Exit Tickets and a game called 'Space Race' with the system.

It's certainly worth a look. Watch a quick video of how it works:

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How to Send a Group Poll with Celly Using Just Your Phone

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Interesting way to do a Poll Everywhere type quiz or survey using Celly - I think that Celly gets what educators want and need for a texting service! You don't get any live score updates, but this could be a great tool for bell work or other quick formative assessments.

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Take Out Your Cell Phones! - Poll Everywhere's Blog

 

There's something about teachers teaching teachers that makes this video a must see.  Teachers are always thinking miles ahead and this instructor does just that.  She has wonderful ideas on how to integrate Poll Everywhere in lessons, and tells of her experiences with the site, she also...as all teachers can do ~prophesies~ before teachers incorporate anything into a lesson the one question we ask ourselves is...what could go wrong?  Well, in this video you get her experience speaking to that topic.  Check it out!

 

More and more teachers are using Poll Everywhere in their instruction, and now more teacher trainers are instructing teachers on how to incorporate Poll Everywhere into their classrooms.

Be sure to catch the video - she gives a good intro to how the system works, how to create both open-ended and multiple choice polls, and the cooperating teachers ask the questions that most teachers would have.

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Teacher Teaching Teachers: Great Demo Video - Poll Everywhere's Blog

Many thanks to Gerie, for posting a great in-depth instructional video yesterday. 

In Geri's video she explains how she uses Poll Everywhere in the classroom, offers advice on administering polls effectively, and describes some of her "more fun and more effective uses." 

Enjoy!

 

Some really good examples of ways to use Poll Everywhere in the classroom. This instructor has a paid plan, but most of what she shows can be accomplished with the free K-12 plan.

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