Poll+Everywhere

[|PollEverywhere]is an easy way to garner real-time feedback from live events in real time using mobile devices.

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 * Free
 * Basic access allows 40 users
 * Easy sign up
 * No contracts (upgrade, downgrade, or cancel anytime without fees)
 * Uses SMS messagingAutomatic censoring for common profanity or inappropriate words
 * No [smart] phone required; with Google Voice or Skype virtually anyone can participate
 * 100% Web based – Do not need to download anything
 * Able to visualize Conversations and Chat walls
 * Limited Use of Free VersionPrimarily phone reliant
 * More than 40 users has a monthly charge
 * Many prime features only available with monthly charge
 * 100% Web based – if Internet is down students cannot use
 * Opportunities: **
 * Students can see real time results to analyze survey questions
 * Educators can use to poll and get feedback
 * Polling results can increase classroom discourse
 * Can be used as informal assessments
 * Results can be used as data to drive instruction
 * Site can be accessed at anytime by students
 * Cell phones can become a target for theft
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Slang inappropriate words may not be censored automatically

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 * ======<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Students can conduct polls among classmates, grade levels as well as school-wide for a math integration lesson, where students then find the mean, median and mode for their collected data. ======
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Students may use the available software to practice creating digital graphs, charts and figures that visually display their collected data.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Teachers can poll student interests for a variety of democratically-created opportunities: lesson topics of interest, field trip options, classroom décor options, personal opinions about past lesson activities for teacher reflection etc.