I had fun using Poll Everywhere! It was quick and easy. I like the option to change the background. The Flicker search had a lot of good options. I also like the response settings. Too often kids like to vote more than once and then it can throw off your class data. I can see using this for interactive math lessons. Everyone can input their data and we can discuss it. Graphs are hard to understand and interpret so I think this would really engage the students.
I also made a Kahoot! I know students LOVE these! A lot of our 5th grade classrooms used them last year. (in fact I had to cover for one of them last year and I did not know how to use Kahoot. I had trouble pulling up what she wanted me to do so I changed the lesson. Wish I would have known how easy it is to use!) It is such a fun way to review anything. The competitive nature of it makes it engaging. I did a quick book review for the book Stone Fox. I quickly grabbed a quiz from Super Teacher Worksheets and used most of their questions. I liked adding pictures and those were easy to find on Google Images. I can see using this for just about anything in school. I can see it as an easy way to review vocabulary. It could be used as a tool to see where the kids are at. I like that they can use a nickname so other kids don't necessarily know who is answering what. I want to spend more time looking for public games. These are fun but a bit time consuming to make.
https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/85f600b4-11b0-4191-92b5-701a8fdc2327
For some reason it won't let me take your PollEverywhere. Can you check the settings to make sure your poll is open? Your Kahoot was really fun! It's been awhile since I read Stone Fox, but it started coming back to me. It was a great book. :) Kahoot would be a fun way to review for all kinds of subjects!
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DeleteIt still won't let me answer. It says that I need to wait for your presentation to start. I like that it has that feature though, so you can have a poll ready to go but students can't answer until you want them to.
DeleteKahoot is way cool, so easy to use and kids LOVE it! I agree-- it's great that you can use public games already created, makes it easy when you need something quick, not like that ever happens ;) !
ReplyDeletePoll Everywhere sounds very interesting. In the past my students really enjoyed using the SMART Response system in class. This sounds like a updated version of that. Does the data gathered get put into a useful form for teachers to analyze? like a spreadsheet or something.
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