College students today attend their classes with a variety of web-enabled mobile devices –laptops, smartphones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), iPads, and others. A clever new technology, Poll Everywhere uses those devices to enable faculty to interact with their students in a live way and to post their responses on-screen in real-time.
Poll Everywhere uses short message service (SMS) texting responses to capture both votes and short word snippets.
This functionality is especially useful in large face-to-face classes held in smart classrooms. The class responses may spark new directions in class discussions and may be used to sample how effective the teaching and learning are in real time (for real-time adjustments).
For more about this technology, how it works, and for information about pricing (beyond the free version), see the Poll Everywhere page on ELATEwiki.
