The past two weeks, I used clickers (TurningPoint) in class and the students really liked the anonymous polling. I decided to try to have a few online class meetings in my legal and ethical issues class - so how to replicate that experience?
All of my face-to-face classes are "hybrid" classes, meaning that the course resources are all in a learning management system. I had designed the lessons using SoftChalk, so I needed an online polling solution. I decided to use PollDaddy. I selected a court case study from the textbook and entered the questions into PollDaddy - along with some choices for answers. PollDaddy provides the "code" that you can copy/paste for web pages. I copied the code and then opened my course lesson in the HTML view - and copied the code. All I could see in SoftChalk was "Script" buttons. However, when I previewed the poll in a web browser it looked PERFECT!! Yesterday I made the announcement to the students that the poll was open. Today a third of the students have already take the poll and are split 50/50 on the answers. They are looking forward to hearing feedback about how the case was decided in court.
Polling, whether done in the classroom or online is phenomenal resource!
All of my face-to-face classes are "hybrid" classes, meaning that the course resources are all in a learning management system. I had designed the lessons using SoftChalk, so I needed an online polling solution. I decided to use PollDaddy. I selected a court case study from the textbook and entered the questions into PollDaddy - along with some choices for answers. PollDaddy provides the "code" that you can copy/paste for web pages. I copied the code and then opened my course lesson in the HTML view - and copied the code. All I could see in SoftChalk was "Script" buttons. However, when I previewed the poll in a web browser it looked PERFECT!! Yesterday I made the announcement to the students that the poll was open. Today a third of the students have already take the poll and are split 50/50 on the answers. They are looking forward to hearing feedback about how the case was decided in court.
Polling, whether done in the classroom or online is phenomenal resource!
Hi Jeanne,
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for sharing your experience of using clickers, Poll Daddy and SoftChalk to create interactive polls for your students. I'm glad it was such a success!