Jessica+Kulman-Poll+Everywhere

Jessica L. Kulman-Poll Everywhere


 * What:** Poll Everywhere: Cell Phone Polling


 * Website:** []


 * Student’s name:** Jessica Kulman


 * Grade level(s):** 6-12/or all computer users and must have a cell phone


 * Content areas:** all


 * Abstract:** Do you have problems with cell phone use in class? Do you want to use that pesky cell phone as a learning tool and not a distraction? If you answered YES, I have a solution for you and it is a cell phone polling website. With this website you can use those cell phones that students cannot put down to your advantage and have them text you their answers. With this site you can instantly analyze how your students are doing. It allows you to gather information that day on student performance and it will allow you to adjust your teaching according instead of quizzing them, grading their quizzes, handing them back, and going over them. You can still implement quizzes; it just allows you to adjust as your students indicate before they take their quiz. You can type in your question and make it an open ended response, multiple choice or true/false. You can upload images three different ways and it has a program called Latex that writes scientific formulas. If you have a quiz or test question you want to use, you can just cut and copy from your word document. The best part is that it is free and in real-time.


 * Personal Experience:** I have never used this website or have I ever used any polling website, but after playing with this I want to use it tomorrow. As long as we have a good cell phone connection and it responds well in the classroom, this could be something I use often. I am always trying to find away to engage students differently and use the tools they work with most, which seems to be their cell phone. When I viewed the tutorial and plugged in some of my own sample question it seemed very easy to use. I also responded to my own question and it took about eight seconds to come up on the screen. I don’t know how well it responds to a classroom of students all texting in at once.