1. Welcome Introduction to Poll Everywhere
Karlton Hughes, Instructional Designer and Media Specialist

2. Goals To Learn… what Poll Everywhere is and what it does
how to use (and instruct others to use) a device to respond to an activity (or poll)
the basics of the Poll Everywhere interface
to create activities (or polls) from within the Poll Everywhere site that others will respond to
Also to see…
effective ways to use Poll Everywhere face-to-face in the classroom
effective ways to use Poll Everywhere during events and meetings
Goals

3. Our Journey Understand Issues inherit in face-to-face meetings
Learn what Poll Everywhere is and what it does
Discuss some solutions to the issues in face-to-face meetings
See how Poll Everywhere activities look to an end user
Examples of various types of activities
Take a look inside the Poll Everywhere presenter environment
Create Poll Everywhere Activities as a presenter
Open up for questions and discussion
Our Journey

4. Classroom Issues Class Participation (Inclusion and Time)
Reluctance to Participate
Rhetorical Questions
Fear of Wrong Answers
Fear of “Dumb Questions”
Introverted Personalities
Lack of Engagement or Not Paying Attention
Difficult to spot trends
Classroom Issues

5. Meeting and Event Issues
Participation (Inclusion)
Participation (Time)
Reluctance to Participate
Fear of “Dumb Questions”
Introverted Personalities
Lack of Engagement or Not Paying Attention
Misunderstanding trends or having difficulty in spotting trends
Meeting and Event Issues

6. What is Poll Everywhere?
An Internet-based (and cellular-based) audience response system that can address some
of the problems of participation
What is
Poll Everywhere?

7. Solutions Allowing Total Participation Everyone can respond
No Additional Time Taken
Providing Anonymity to address Reluctance
Fear of wrong answers
Fear of “Dumb Question”
Introverted personalities
Requiring participation to address lack of engagement or not paying attention
Brainstorming and building on ideas
Reporting and reviewing results
Spot trends of the total population
Solutions

8. Poll Everywhere Features
Offers a suite of (polling) activities
Responses to activities are via the Internet or SMS
Respondents can be anonymous or registered
FREE education accounts allow up to 40 responses
Real-time display of responses with graphing
LMS Integration
Poll Everywhere Features

9. Response Comparisons (SMS) Mobile App (web) x Multiple Choice
Word Cloud
Q&A Audience Favorite
Rank Order
Clickable Image
Survey
Open-ended
Response Comparisons

10. Sample Activities

11. Multiple Choice Activities

12. What's the most important thing you hope to gain from this training?

13. Word Cloud
Activities

14. In one word, describe how learning a new educational technology makes you feel?

15. Q&A Audience Favorite Activities

16. What are some barriers to learning a new educational technology?

17. Rank Order
Activities

18. Rank the technologies so that the ones you believe will impact hire education the most are highest.

19. Clickable Image Activities

20. In what region of the map where you born?

21. Survey
Activities

22. Presentation feedback

23. Open-ended Activities

24. Additional Poll Everywhere Uses
End of Lecture/Meeting Question Pool
Gauge student/participant understanding
Group consensus
More…
Additional
Poll Everywhere Uses

25. Questions? Karlton Hughes Instructional Designer and Media Specialist•