Poll Everywhere allows teachers to create polls for their students to respond to and provides teachers with results immediately after students respond. This tool allows teachers to immediately see if their students are comprehending the topic they are teaching or not by providing them with instant results. Poll Everywhere also allows teachers to create multiple choice, open ended, Q&A/Brainstorm, and clickable image polls. In order to create a poll using Poll Everywhere, teachers must create an account. Then they just have to type in a question, select what type of poll they want, and then add in the answers if needed for the type of question they are asking. From there teachers can either keep the polls online or download them into PowerPoint. Then students text the number that is provided at the top of the polls and text in their answers. Teachers will then be notified of their students responses and it will appear on a graph beside the question. I will instruct students and parents to text the specific phone number for each poll and then text in their answers to the polls. This tool is great in that way, that it does not require a lot of effort on the student or parent's part to participate in the polls. The results are also easy to receive. Teachers are notified on the poll how students answered either in the form of their short answer responses or in graph form telling them which students chose which answers to the question. With these results, teachers can gauge student understanding of the topic being discussed and adjust their lesson plan to meet the needs of their students. This project fits into the Danielson Framework for Teaching in that it is a tool teachers can use to prepare themselves for the next lesson they will be teaching. Depending on how their students do on the polls, tells teachers how well their students comprehended the day's lesson and will allow teachers to adjust their lesson plan for the next day. It fits into component 1F in that it is a program that allows teachers to easily and effectively assess their students. This tool allows teachers to use formative assessment to gauge their students' understanding of the topic they are teaching. More specifically it achieves the element about designing formative assessment. Poll Everywhere allows teachers to choose which questions they ask students to see where they are at with learning the content of the lesson.
Overall this project went really well. It was a little difficult to figure out how to get the polls to show up in PowerPoint, but the instructions on how to do this on Poll Everywhere's website were very helpful. If I could do anything differently, it would be to create a project that was more relevant to elementary aged students. The learning from this assignment ties into what I am currently learning in Educational Psychology because we are learning about creating lesson plans. Formative assessment is a very important part of a lesson plan. Poll Everywhere gives me another tool to incorporate this form of assessment easily into my future lesson plans. In my future classroom, I could use this to create class graphs and also to review charts and diagrams through Poll Everywhere's clickable image poll.
Overall this project went really well. It was a little difficult to figure out how to get the polls to show up in PowerPoint, but the instructions on how to do this on Poll Everywhere's website were very helpful. If I could do anything differently, it would be to create a project that was more relevant to elementary aged students. The learning from this assignment ties into what I am currently learning in Educational Psychology because we are learning about creating lesson plans. Formative assessment is a very important part of a lesson plan. Poll Everywhere gives me another tool to incorporate this form of assessment easily into my future lesson plans. In my future classroom, I could use this to create class graphs and also to review charts and diagrams through Poll Everywhere's clickable image poll.