Polling can be used for a variety of reasons in the classroom. You can get feedback from your students on a project, use it for exit tickets, ask simple questions to see a level of understanding, use it it for giving formative assessments, ...the list goes on.
I've put together a list of a few of my top favorite polling websites that you can use with your students in your classroom. Tally
Tally is a simple-to-use website used for asking questions. When you open the website, there is no sign in required. All you do is create your poll/question and give possible answer choices. As soon as you push enter on your keyboard, you'll notice that the URL changes. This is the URL that you will give your students. It's that quick and easy!
Poll Everywhere
Poll Everywhere is great. It allows teachers to have their students text their answers to the app or website, once given a code, and their answers will appear on the screen. The teacher can also set it up where answers appear as a word cloud, bar graph, etc. It does require a sign in but the benefits outweigh that headache. We use this a lot in staff development trainings as well. Check out the video and click on the logo above to visit their website for more ideas on how you can use Poll Everywhere in the classroom.
Tricider
Tricider is quickly becoming one of my favorite polling tools for the classroom. You don't have to log in if you don't want to; simply type your question in and share the link. Anyone can add ideas and then vote on them. If you want to edit your posts at a later date, create an account and log in. Edit via the link at any time. Click above to see my Tricider example, add an idea, and vote on your favorites! To go directly to the website to begin creating your own Tricider, click on the logo.
Dotstorming
Dotstorming combines a few features into one tool. It has the Pinterest/Padlet feel while still allowing you to vote on ideas. I love that it has a chat feature built into the right side of the website to allow for further discussions in your class. Your students can add as many ideas as they would like and then vote on their favorites. This can be used in ELA when discussing a particular theme or idea in a book, in Math to discuss how to best solve equations, in Social Studies when analyzing certain events..the list goes on!
Google Classroom
Google continues to make Classroom better and better. In the fall of 2016, they added several new features which are incredibly useful for teachers. One of them is the ability to poll your students. Simply click on the + sign in the lower right hand corner and select "Create Question". Type in your question, choose if you'd like them to answer via multiple choice or short answer and then select "Ask". You can also easily see how many students have and have not answered your question. Visit Google Classroom to learn more.
Moodle
Moodle is a Learning Management System that allows teachers to create a space for resources, assignments, discussions, lessons, and much much more. One of their features is "Choice". Choice allows the teacher to quickly poll students directly in their course. This is a great feature so that students don't have to type additional URLs and the results stay in one central location. Choice on Moodle allows the teacher to publish the results or leave them unpublished as well as gives the teacher the choice on how he or she would like the information presented - horizontally or vertically. Check into getting Moodle for your District. You won't be disappointed!
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Twitter is more than just for following celebrities. It can be used to promote your personal business, to connect with friends and family, or to see what is going on in the world. Moreover, it can be used in the classroom.
Here are my top 10 favorite ways to use Twitter in the classroom 1. Class Chat - Create a unique hashtag so that your class can have a running forum to discuss projects, concepts, and ideas. 2. Class Assignments - Have your students tweet and hashtag authentic experiences for an assignment using a class hashtag. For example: Have your students find geometric shapes in the real world for a Geometry assignment and tweet pictures with their understanding and class hashtag. Here's an example: #cavgeom 3. Online Tutorials - Host a Twitter chat about a topic and have your students ask questions with the unique class hashtag and have yourself and other students answer questions and link resources, videos, etc. 4. Projects - Create a unique hashtag for a project and have students share projects on Twitter and hashtag them with the project hashtag. 5. Go Live - Tweet live projects, experiments, field trips and more to have parents keep up with what your students are doing. 6. Role Play - Have your students tweet as characters from a story they're reading in your ELA class, a Historical figure in your History class, etc and create a unique hashtag to collect all of the tweets in one place! 7. Bulletin Board - Tweet updates about your class, assignments, tests, projects, etc so that your students and parents can stay up to date. 8. Backchannel - Have your students tweet questions and comments about a lecture. This can be used for Socratic Seminar. 9. Creative Writing - Begin a story and hashtag it. Then have each of your students finish the story and use the same hashtag. They'll be able to see multiple endings and variations of the story! 10. Connecting with Primary Sources - Your students can follow people that are important to science, history, math, ELA, etc. They can learn from them as well as connect with them. Twitter allows students to have a voice and a connection with the outside world. It allows for connections between what they're learning and themselves. It's a great way for your students to exchange ideas and learn in a creative way. |
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