Polleverywhere can be used everywhere?

                1. Name of the Tool

 

2.   URL of the Tool

          http://www.polleverywhere.com/

    3.   Please select the one, primary category for this tool:

           Feedback Tool

    4.   Please describe this tool in your own words in about 150-     250 words.

The use of audience feedback and participation has been increasing in popularity, especially for adult learning.  It is a proven fact that learners retain only 10% of what they hear in a lecture.  Participation in question and answer sessions can increase this learning.  Audience response hardware and software is expensive for educators and many cannot accomodate this expense.  Polleverywhere is an online verison of audience response which utilizes the audiences cell phones or other mobile devices.  The instructor can ask questions and the audience can key in their response via cell phone.  This tool can be used for small to large group audience participation.  The responses can be calculated and seen in real time during a presentation.  This is an ingenuitive solution to the problem of expensive equipment for audience response and feedback in education.

5.   What do you need to know before using this tool? (What skills do you need to have?)

User

-must know how to navigate internet

-should know how to use powerpoint in order to download survey questions into presentations

6.   What do you need to have before using this tool? (Resources)

The poll maker must have access to a computer and internet.  The responders to the poll must have a cell phone with texting abilities or wifi to access the online poll response site.  The room in which the poll is administered must have dependable cell phone service, i.e. not conducted in a basement conference room.

7. How do you use this tool?

Enroll in polleverywhere.  After creating your poll, it can be downloaded into powerpoint form.  Directions for your audience also are automatically downloaded with the poll questions.  See my example below for how to create a poll question.

8.   Locate or create your own example of an educational resource created with this tool and discuss what you found or created.

http://www.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/MjA3MjIzODU3

This question is one that I can use in my instructional scenario described later.

9.   Include screenshots, audio podcasts, screencasts, or other multimedia elements that help describe the tool and how you used it.

Screenshot-jing

Audio Cast-podomatic

Screencast-Screenr

10. Please describe a scenario of how you might use this tool in a teaching environment (150-250 words).

    

     Please listen to my podcast below.

11. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using this tool    in a teaching environment?

Advantages

-free, easy to access

-poll questions easy to enter

-automatic poll results given

Disadvantages

-requires wifi or cell phone service for responders to participate

-creating more than one poll question for your presenation is        cumbersome

12.Would you recommend this Web 2.0 tool to others, or suggest that they explore a different tool?

This tool is easy to use.  Each poll question is a separate entry and so use for multiple questions per presentation is cumbersome.  Thus, I would recommend its use in simple multiple choice questions and for purposes that do not require a high number of poll questions.