I've been running to catch up with this week's tasks and assignments. But I've learned a lot!
After reading the articles about 'Learner Autonomy' and 'One Computer Class', I decided to create a lesson plan fostering learner autonomy. The word 'autonomy' made me think of slef-rule and hence I planned to aim my lesson at 'Electing Class Representative'. Then I started searching for a useful online tool to conduct secret voting. I found Poll Everywhere and was glad to find that students could poll anonymously through SMS. It's a great tool as I could use one computer with a large screen to show the live chart for polling and the students could use their cell phones to vote. (Like teenagers around the world, my students love sending SMS!). With free version of Poll Everywhere, I could receive responses from 30 students. The only thing I was worried about was SMS spamming. What if Poll Everywhere starts sending spam to the students. I verified it by using it myself and found it safe.
If you want to participate in a sample Poll please take some time to go through the following poll. Try sending your response through SMS. Simply type the CODE for your selected OPTION and send the SMS to the phone number given in the poll. If for some reasons, you can't send your SMS, you can go to the Web Link to enter your response. Look at the poll below to see live chart changes to accommodate your response. It's really exciting, isn't it?
After reading the articles about 'Learner Autonomy' and 'One Computer Class', I decided to create a lesson plan fostering learner autonomy. The word 'autonomy' made me think of slef-rule and hence I planned to aim my lesson at 'Electing Class Representative'. Then I started searching for a useful online tool to conduct secret voting. I found Poll Everywhere and was glad to find that students could poll anonymously through SMS. It's a great tool as I could use one computer with a large screen to show the live chart for polling and the students could use their cell phones to vote. (Like teenagers around the world, my students love sending SMS!). With free version of Poll Everywhere, I could receive responses from 30 students. The only thing I was worried about was SMS spamming. What if Poll Everywhere starts sending spam to the students. I verified it by using it myself and found it safe.
If you want to participate in a sample Poll please take some time to go through the following poll. Try sending your response through SMS. Simply type the CODE for your selected OPTION and send the SMS to the phone number given in the poll. If for some reasons, you can't send your SMS, you can go to the Web Link to enter your response. Look at the poll below to see live chart changes to accommodate your response. It's really exciting, isn't it?
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