REFLECTION: I was very excited to do this activity because
I've used all these tools and I thought I'd have an easy go at it. Not
the case. I've used Poll Everywhere for a couple of years and each time I
create a poll, I spend hours on just it to get it perfect. Same thing
this time even though I only created two polls. I am planning to do this
as my presentation during workshop week, so I had to make sure I had it
just right because I'm at a new school this year. Plus, it's changed
somewhat since I first started to use it so I had to check out all the new
features.
I use this a a
formative assessment. I don't over use it, once, maybe twice a year as a
novelty. I usually use it with our SMART software so I can cover up the
answers if I'm letting students submit their own answers with a screen. I
rarely have them submit their own answers because students can be somewhat
immature at times, so I like that I can now put their identification -last four
digits of their phone number - on the screen. That way, I can see if the
same person is answering multiple times or that there is a way to purchase a
feature that pre-edits comments if they are totally outrageous in terms of
language use. This only applies to the written answers, not the multiple
choice response.
I tried Tweeting,
but it didn't seem to work. I'll have to continue to try it.
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REFLECTION: I have used Google forms when I was CCT for
world languages. I had to collect large amounts of data from teachers
across the district and this worked very well for me to manage it digitally.
I used to collect forms from everyone and then I had to sort, make sure
everyone submitted, and then compile the data. Now it's all there
for me to check with a couple of clicks and email those who still hadn't
responded and to manipulate the data since it organizes it like an Excel
spreadsheet. It was also great because the program models looked
different at each level and even among the same levels, so teachers could
submit their data at any time of the year and I didn't have to worry about
hanging on to it until I got it all.
I might try this
with students as a formative assessment for my hybrid class.
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