New Poll Everywhere Feature - Google Slides and Chrome Web Browser

Poll Everywhere is now available to use with the Chrome web browser and Google Drive slides.  It works on Mac and Windows computers.  To learn more, go to https://www.polleverywhere.com/app/google-slides

The Poll Everywhere extension is available for Google Chrome.  When you open Google Drive slides, you will see Poll Everywhere in the menu.

When you click to insert a poll, you have several choices for types of polls.  After you are done, click on the Present button.  If the poll is locked, mouse over to the right side of the web browser and click the lock icon to unlock the poll.

When the poll participants see the poll, they go to their mobile phone messages app and enter the number 22333 in the "send to" window.  Next the participants enter the name of the poll.  In my example, they enter JEANNESEWELL.  Finally, the participant answers the poll, entering A, B, or other choices provided.

The poll results display on the presenters slide.

The Georgia College nurse educator students have been working with the College of Health Sciences faculty teaching SMART Notebook software.  The 15th edition of the software has a great built-in polling feature for mobile devices.  The downside of the software is that it is a subscription.  It must be installed on the presenter's computer (for the design) and on the classroom podium computer for the presentation (unless the presenter was using a laptop with the software to present).

SMART Notebook allows participants to use any type of computer with a web browser to answer a poll.  However, Google Slides and Poll Everywhere limit the response to polls using the messaging app. 

Chrome Extension - Saving an Image to Google Drive

Google Drive is fostering innovations for use. If you want to save a graphic to Google Drive with a single click of the mouse, it is possible with the Save to Google Drive extension for the Chrome web browser.  To add the extension, go to the  Customize and Control Google Chrome at the far right of the URL menu.

Select Tools > Extensions from the menu.  In the Search menu, type Save to Google Drive.  You should get a listing of extensions relating to saving and Google Drive.  Select on the Save to Google Drive extension and then click on the Install button.  Once it is installed. you should have the option to Save to Google Drive when you right-click on an image. 

Notice that I said it was a one-click procedure, not one second in time.   When you click on Save to Google Drive, the web browser is redirected to another window that asks for permission to add the image to your Google Drive account.  Still another window provides an option to rename the image.  When the image is saved, open up the Google Drive account to view it.  If the image you are using is from the web, you will want to adhere to any copyright issues for use.

If you are using Firefox, you can right-click and save an image to Evernote.  What is different is that Evernote will provide a URL for the image, not the image file.  If Evernote does note appear as a Save option, you can add it to the menu.