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Formative Assessments Are Easier Than You Think!

The Web20Classroom

Poll Everywhere - Another one of my favorites, simply because of the variety of uses and methods of submitting responses. Similar to the others, the teacher can create a simple feedback poll or leave the question open ended. The students can respond via text message, website or even Twitter.

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Ideas and Tools to Give Everyone a Voice

A Principal's Reflections

You can even integrate a Twitter hash tag. Mentimeter – Move over Poll Everywhere. Mentimeter is a great tool that allows you to poll your audience in a variety of ways. People can respond via text, videos, images, and documents. AnswerGarden – My new favorite tool! Responses can only be 20 or 40 characters.

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Embracing Formative Assessments This School Year

The Web20Classroom

Poll Everywhere - This is another one of my favorites, simply because of the variety of uses and methods of submitting responses. Similar to the others, the teacher can create a simple feedback poll or leave the question open ended. The students can respond via text message, website or even Twitter.

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5 Ways Teachers Can Encourage Deeper Learning With Personal Devices

Edsurge

Websites such as Poll Everywhere allow teachers to pose questions to students during presentations, demonstrations or lectures and students can respond with immediate responses displayed on a projector. Wouldn’t it be great if that could happen in our classrooms during every content presentation we offer?

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Summer 2017 Learning Series-Embracing Formative Assessment

The Web20Classroom

These posts will take us through Twitter chats and how you can participate in real time or whenever you want. Poll Everywhere - This is another one of my favorites, simply because of the variety of uses and methods of submitting responses. The students can respond via text message, website or even Twitter.

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Testing Giving You The Blues? Get Creative with EdTech Formative Assessments

MSEDTechie

The data and results that come from testing can show powerful trends about student achievement. Using Quick tools like Plickers , Google Forms, Padlet , Poll Everywhere can quickly allow you access to data in a quick and fun way, sometimes so fun, students have no idea they are being assessed.

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Draw on Student Interests to Make the Common Core Work for You

Educator Innovator

Poll Everywhere ( [link] ) is a great digital tool that you can use to survey your students about anything, from fun, getting-to-know-you questions to provocative questions related to your subject matter. The problem was that I didn’t let my students teach me. Tap into digital literacy and civic education skills at the same time!