After introducing PollEverywhere to the general faculty as a formative assessment tool, a few teachers "ran with it" and had some sucess! By polling with a web url, students respond using their laptops. Here are two examples:
An English teacher figured out how to group questions into a "survey" so that students could respond to several questions at once at their own pace. Then they reviewed the responses as a class.
A French teacher created several polls to review some vocabulary. She asked them questions like "what is your favorite season?" and they has to select their choice, all of the content in French. They loved it and asked the teacher if she would use it all the time!
These teachers love to try new things. It is fun for them to incorporate new tools as they develop or modify their curriculum. They are a good resource to their departments and the students really enjoyed doing something so engaging.
An English teacher figured out how to group questions into a "survey" so that students could respond to several questions at once at their own pace. Then they reviewed the responses as a class.
A French teacher created several polls to review some vocabulary. She asked them questions like "what is your favorite season?" and they has to select their choice, all of the content in French. They loved it and asked the teacher if she would use it all the time!
These teachers love to try new things. It is fun for them to incorporate new tools as they develop or modify their curriculum. They are a good resource to their departments and the students really enjoyed doing something so engaging.
Poll Everywhere could be used to as a formative assessment at the beginning of another class period that would cover the key concepts from the previous class. Another idea could be to incorporate Poll Everywhere into a Current Event activity at the beginning of a class.
ReplyDeleteAmy, really interesting idea :) ~Elizabeth
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