Comments on: Poll Everywhere In Library Instruction

By: Matthew Palmer

Matthew Palmer — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:33:17 +0000

At my time in Harshman Magnet Middle School, my biology would use this particular website to prepare us for Benchmarks, which are sort of like mid-way tests to track our progress.I thought it was pretty cool especially since if you didnt have a phone, you could go online and answer the poll, rather it was a free response or a multiple choice. I rather liked pollev.com Thumbs up by me!

By: Kathy

Kathy — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:36:42 +0000

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I like quick polls to test student learning. This could be very helpful to get students involved.

By: Andy Burkhardt

Andy Burkhardt — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:21:50 +0000

Of course Lynn! We’ve tried a few different prompts But the three main ones (with possible choices) that we have used are
1)”Where do you like to get your info?”
-People
-The Web
-TV
-Other

2)”How do you search?”
-Google
-Bing
-Yahoo
-The Library
-Other

3) “What do you want you information to do for you?”
-Entertain me
-Challenge me
-Support my position
-Teach me something new
-Other

We had students explain their answers and it ended up generating a lot of discussion. I hope this helps!

By: Lynn

Lynn — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:10:22 +0000

Would you be willing to share your questions? I’m interested in the kinds of prompts you give them.

By: Get Students To Commit | Information Tyrannosaur

Get Students To Commit | Information Tyrannosaur — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 15:14:41 +0000

[...] with first-semester first-years at Champlain College, we have them respond to poll questions using Poll Everywhere. Instead of asking them a question and wanting one or two of them to respond vocally to us, we have [...]

By: Poll ‘Em Everywhere « LibraryTechTalk

Poll ‘Em Everywhere « LibraryTechTalk — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:50:11 +0000

[...] Andy Burkhardt at Champlain College wrote on his experience using Poll Everywhere for library instruction back in October on his blog. Check it out here: http://andyburkhardt.com/2010/10/25/poll-everywhere-in-library-instruction/ [...]

By: Jeff Vyduna

Jeff Vyduna — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:12:00 +0000

Hmm. Maybe the lesser of $50/teacher/year ($250) or the school-wide at $2.50/student/year. Both allow you to run a single poll multiple times (clearing in-between), and still have access to your previous sets of results (they are archived).

By: Andy Burkhardt

Andy Burkhardt — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:41:00 +0000

Not a problem. It’s a really cool technology and we’re considering using it more and purchasing a subscription. What would be the best option in our situation? We have 4-5 teachers and we teach 30+ sections between us. With this version we had to copy the poll 30 times and then upload them into 30 sets of powerpoint slides, but I’d imagine there has to be an easier way with one of the paid accounts.

By: Andy Burkhardt

Andy Burkhardt — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:27:00 +0000

That was a concern for us too. We don’t require that they participate, but I think a lot of students have unlimited text plans or at least have enough texts that two or three might not be a big deal. For the most part, students have been enjoying it and participating. What were you thinking of using it for?

By: aarontay

aarontay — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:03:00 +0000

Nice. Our IT department also bought this, and I was always itching to try it out, but was worried that users wouldn’t bother to sms & use up one of their quota of free text messages.