What is Poll Everywhere?

1. Poll Everywhere is a simple app. that can be used for live audiences/classrooms.

1.1. The teacher can post a question and have students post a response

1.2. Students have the opportunity to share their answers and comment on others

1.3. After a lecture, the teacher can post an exit question to monitor student understanding

1.4. Poll Everywhere takes advantage of common technologies (mobile phones, Web browsers, and apps)

2. Incorporates interactive technology within the classroom.

2.1. Question and Answers

2.2. Quizes

2.2.1. Mutiple Choice

2.2.2. Short Answer

2.2.3. True or False

2.2.4. Free text polls

2.2.5. Goal polls

2.3. Students feedback

2.3.1. Students can post feed back anonymously to others

2.3.2. For students who are afraid to ask a question in class, they can post anonymously and receive feed back from other students

2.4. Teacher feedback

2.4.1. The teacher can custom reply messages in response to students after they respond to the poll via SMS texting.

2.5. Exit Ticket

2.5.1. An easy way to collect data everyday

2.5.2. A teacher can post a question after a lesson for students to answer before the end of the period. The teacher can gather data to determine if students comprehend the instructional objective

2.6. Evaluation and Assessment

2.6.1. The teacher can run a grading or ranking report on the results of student answers

3. Uses Social Media

3.1. Students can text answers

3.2. The teacher can make web page events

3.3. Uses Twitter

3.4. The teacher can text questions

3.5. Students can respond via web

4. Teacher Responsibility

4.1. The teacher can set time for student responses to each poll. For example, a teacher could set aside 5 minutes at the end of every period for students to answer the topic question

4.2. All students must have access to phones, iPads, or computers

4.3. The teacher must monitor students when they have their devices out. Some students get distracted and don't do what they are suppose to

4.4. There is 40 participant limit for free account. Therefore the teacher must either have several accounts or pay for an account

5. ISTE

5.1. Communication and Collaboration

5.2. Incorprates technology

5.3. Students must use critical thinking skills to respod to a poll

5.4. Creative and innovatve way to communicate and collect data

5.5. Innovative way to interact with students