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The interactive classroom:
Google Forms and Text PollingElizabeth Price
Jefferson Community and Technical College Downtown Library
Goal: Increasing interaction
Make classes less lecture-driven and more interactive
Make classes more inquiry-based
Adjust to student needs
Eliminate disconnect in large lecture halls
Clickers: The traditional tool
Primarily used “clickers” or student response systems Ensure students understand fundamental concepts Give shy students a chance to be heard Allow instructors to adapt lessons to meet student
needs Data can be stored and evaluated later to
supplement curriculum development
(“Seven Things You Should Know About Clickers”)
Clickers: Downsides
Student response systems can be expensive to install (may run several thousand dollars)
Require students to purchase (simplest ones are about $10) But if lost, then they have to buy and register new
devices
Good questions are required for effective use
(“Seven Things You Should Know About Clickers”)
Harnessing new tools
Google Forms Create questionnaires and have students respond
during/after lecture or as a group activity. Require computer-equipped classroom or students to
have laptops or mobile devices with internet access.
Text Polling Create multiple choice or open-ended polls that can be
answered using mobile phones. Require students to use their own phones, text messages.
Google Forms
Part of Google Docs - a free,* Web-based software office suite. Forms-creating software Presentation software Spreadsheet software Word processing software.
Can access from any computer with internet.
Requires a Google or Gmail account.
*Free at the cost of whatever Google does with your information
Google Forms: Introduction
Google Forms: Classroom
Create and administer quizzes
Have students work through problems and submit answers
Poll students on lecture
Evaluations – Peer, instructor, assignment, course
Anonymous surveys
Google Forms: Results
Delivery Can be embedded in blog or website Can be emailed to students Can use a URL shortener to give them a website
Results Can be viewed in Google spreadsheet software
(and/or downloaded to Microsoft Excel) Can be viewed in chart or graph form
Google Forms: Try it out
Take this form survey, and we’ll look at the results: http://goo.gl/wj8Ye
Google Forms: My applications
Reading quizzes Syllabus quiz - GEN 091
Student polling: Types of persuasion Review slideshow and vote on each type Emailed link to students
Library (or division) workshop evaluations
Staff surveys
Google Forms: Resources
Google has many resources available to help you use Forms: Create, send, share and edit a form Page navigation and how to embed a form Add a theme to a form Collect and view form responses
This self-paces learning unit from Boise State looks at applying Google Docs in the classroom Google Docs for Educators
This handout goes over the basics of Google Forms. Handout - Collecting data using Google Docs Forms
Text polling
Web-based student response system
Turns mobile phones into “clickers”
Requires computer, projector to see results
A couple of services available: Poll Everywhere Text the Mob
Text polling: Classroom
Short multiple choice or open-ended quizzes
Anonymous, so can’t be tied to particular student
Can be embedded in PowerPoint or Prezi*
* I had trouble making Prezi work. PowerPoint worked successfully on my Dell.
Text polling: Downsides
Not every student has free texting Work around: Put students in groups of two
Can take time to run smoothly
Crafting good questions is paramount
Text polling: Service providers
Text the Mob (www.textthemob.com) Requires account Free plan:
Allows you three questions,50 responses per question Ad-supported
Pro plan ($5 per month): Allows you 10 questions, 200 responses per question No ads
Still in Beta (so changes can come to platform)
Text polling: Service providers
Poll Everywhere (www.polleverywhere.com) Requires account Free plan:
Unlimited questions, 40 responses per question Individual plan ($15 per month)
Unlimited questions, 50 responses per question Allows you to identify users
Plans available for students ($14 per year) and educators ($399 per semester, no cost to students)
Poll Everywhere: Introduction
Sample question: Try it out
Poll Everywhere: Tips and tricks
Wait until everyone is in the classroom.
Hide responses until most students have answered.
Change your instruction based on feedback
Make sure students know it’s voluntary
Remind students to put phones away afterward
(Rimland and Whiteside)
Poll Everywhere: Resources
November Learning blog Introducing Poll Everywhere
Ohio University Libraries website Poll Everywhere video tutorial (3 parts)
MERLOT website Poll Everywhere – Peer Review
Handout from workshop Poll Everywhere Tutorial - Adelphia University
Burkhardt, Andy, and Sarah Faye Cohen. "The Librarian Says, 'Turn Your Cell Phones On!'" Lecture. New England Library Instruction Group Conference. Lowell, MA. 3 June 2011. Information Tyrannosaur. Andy Burkhardt, 6 June 2011. Web. 20 Feb. 2012.
"Engage Your Audience." Text the Mob. Urban Interactive Studio, 2010. Web. 20 Feb. 2012.
"How Poll Everywhere Works." Poll Everywhere. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Feb. 2012. Novicki, Andrea. "Instant Class Feedback without Clickers." Center for Instructional
Technology. Duke University, 21 Apr. 2011. Web. 22 Feb. 2012. Kim, Dong-gook. "Using Google Forms for Student Engagement and Learning."
EDUCAUSE Quarterly 34.1 (2011). Web. 20 Feb. 2012. Byrne, Richard. "OMG! Texting In Class?." School Library Journal 57.3 (2011): 16.
Academic Search Premier. Web. 19 Feb. 2012. "Poll Everywhere." MERLOT. California State University, 25 Oct. 2011. Web. 20 Feb.
2012. Rimland, Emily, and Alice Whiteside. "What Is Poll Everywhere?" Penn State University
Libraries. 18 Apr. 2011. Web. 22 Feb. 2012. "Seven Things You Should Know About Clickers." EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative.
EDUCAUSE, May 2005. Web. 20 Feb. 2012. "Text the Mob." MERLOT. California State University, 9 Jan. 2012. Web. 20 Feb. 2012.
Works Cited
Contact information
Elizabeth Price Librarian/adjunct instructor Jefferson Community and Technical College,
Downtown Library eprice0003@kctcs.edu (502) 213-2142 Professional blog (will be updated with today’s
session soon): http://web2point0intheclassroom.blogspot.com/