Tech Tool Thursday: Using Online Polling Tools to Increase Engagement, in 30 minutes: Teaching online? Do you struggle with active learning techniques and engaging your students? This session will offer polling tools and methods for creating a more engaged online classroom and better universal design for learning. Presenters: FTLC Fellows and librarians Beth Filar Williams and Amy Harris Houk

1. Using Online Polling Tools to Increase
Engagement workshop
3/27/2014 | Amy Harris Houk & Beth Filar Williams

2. Why poll?
● Increases student engagement
● Provides timely feedback
● Helps students determine which content is
important
● Resets student attention

3. Online Polling and UDL
UDL Principle 3: Multiple Means of
Engagement
Polling can:
● Help students identify what is important
● Help with self-assessment
● Reset attention spans

4. POLL: I have used polling
in f2f situations...
A. by having folks raise hands so sort of!
B. by using Clickers/devices
C. never
D. other (type details in the chat)
CC by NC-2.0 @sneeu http://www.flickr.com/photos/90336565@N00/3202318260/

5. Polling in BB Collaborate
green check/red X
A...E choices
can make vote visible all
can push results to whiteboard
also use chat for text/other
located under TOOLS in menu

6. POLL: My favorite thing to
do over Spring Break:
A. Eat & Relax!
B. Watch basketball
C. Grade papers
D. Take walk/hike/bike
E. Visit with family and/or friends

7. Polling Tips
● rule of 3 (interaction every 3 min)
● ask several polls in a row
● higher level thinking polls (try case studies
questions)
● try thought provoking poll - text based
answer in chat

8. PollEverywhere.com
image from http://www.polleverywhere.com/

9. Polleverywhere FAQs
(basic FREE plan)
● unlimited # of polls and up to 40 votes
● live ppt slide polling
● web voting
● widgets to embed
● twitter to vote
● send link out
● download results
● send link of web responses

10. Polleverywhere example #1

11. Polleverywhere example #2

12. Let’s demo!
Website:
http://www.polleverywhere.com/
Our examples in a libguide:
http://uncg.libguides.com/onlinepolling

13. for iphone | ipad
(not android)
or
Polls.bb

14. QUESTIONS??
CONTACT:
Beth: efwilli3@uncg.edu
Amy: a_harri2@uncg.edu