For one of my technologies I decided to learn how to use polleverywhere.com. This is a fascinating technology. If I wanted to use it for myself I could have an audience of 30 people who can answer poll questions by text message, But because I am a teacher, I can have up to 40 people send text messages to each of my polls. So this works like an iclicker, but it is cheaper if all of my students have free text messaging.I would have to pay $50 a month if I wanted to grade my student on their answers. That doesn't sound that bad.
So I really like how I can group questions. This way I could have 8 different classes texting answers to 8 different polls. I can keep them separated and not worry about exceeding my 40 person limit with more than one class. I could also take attendance, though I'd have to be careful with that one.
I spend a few hours exploring what I can and cannot do. (There is a lot I could do if I was willing to pay money). There are only a few things I have been really disappointed with. One is the fact that I cannot format my words in my polls, so chemical formulas will be a bit confusing for my students (without subscripts or superscripts and such). Another is that I cannot embed my polls straight into my google website. Whenever I do, I get a message that says"Warning: your HTML contains some tags that are not permitted". Finally, I wish that the whole page would fill up with answers, rather than one column. Otherwise, I love Polleverywhere and I plan on using it in my classroom.
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