Instant+Audience+Feedback+in+the+Classroom

=**Overview**=

Instance Audience Feedback focuses on the use of intenet technologies in combination with cellular devices to provide student feedback using polling / surveying / voting mediums. These tools allow teachers to gather immediate feedback by allowing all members of a class to participate simultaneously and provides a clear formative assessment of comprehension of lesson objectives This is an exciting alternative to Automatic Response Systems (ARS) which cost thousands of dollars for classroom sets of wireless remotes to provide similar functionality.

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=Information=

Classroom polling (or audience response) is a form of interactive learning that aims to enhance the learning experience by connecting each student to the teacher through an anonymous response device. Polling systems can transform a lecture into an interactive experience and achieve a central goal in teaching: keeping students' attention. Research on such techniques has shown that teachers and students can immediately assess student mastery of material and that problems can be addressed during the ongoing lecture by slowing down, focusing on a subject, or providing more depth. In addition, polling facilitates both the reinforcement of concepts and the “learning-by-doing” format.

Classroom response systems, or “clickers”, have become more widely used in education in recent years. Clickers can provide valuable feedback about how student are learning and thinking about a particular topic. However, use of these devices often requires that students purchase hardware and that faculty learn new software tools in order to use them. This has often prevented the occasional or spontaneous use of polling technology in the classroom. This wiki page explores alternatives to clickers, which include cell phones and freely available web-based tools, and offers examples possible classroom uses.

=Web Based Polling Tools=
 * **[[image:Polldaddy.png link="@http://www.polldaddy.com/"]]Live web polling, can be embedded in web pages and blogs.** ||
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 * = **[[image:Tweet.png link="@http://twtpoll.com/"]]A polling tool that launches a poll from your twitter account...for those of you that are tweeters.** ||
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