Online Audience Participation Systems in F2F IL Sessions Dina Koutsomichali - Brighton Teach Meet - 25 th May

Why use them in F2F sessions? Large classes more opportunities for individual participation Easy to set up on the spot to check understanding Easy to access and use students use familiar devices Variety of question types can vary the focus of the question

How do they fit into each session? Student needs Course fit Session fit Task fit

What do the students need?

Aid recall/clarification

Ideas collection

Question formats and activities Free Text: student pair/group work results, ideas collection, opinions, suggestions, etc. Single sentence gap fill: aid recall, clarify concepts/terms/jargon, etc. Yes/No and M/C: games, voting, clarifying, testing, etc. All the above: leads to or feedback from pair/group discussion

Considerations Activity/task relevance Short and ‘to the point’ rubrics Words to be used as codes Time limit for questions and activities Staff or student questions 3-4 polls max a variety of question types and activities Software conflicts Happy clicking!