In this course, we are going to reflect on our teaching practice and some of the needs or challenges we can find on the way in order to bring up simple and creative solutions. To do so, we will search, adapt and generate a variety of resources to help our practice.
Expected outcome:
By the end of the course, you are expected to use variety of resources, count on a battery of handy tools and teaching ideas, and, most important, have the skills to research and find solutions to the challenges/needs that will emerge in our everyday professional life.
Let’s just be resourceful! è Resourceful: Able to act effectively or imaginatively, especially in difficult situations
8 nov 2012
Using polls
How can you use polls in an EFL classroom?
Suggest resources to create polls and explain how you can use them in language learning activities. Click here to answer the poll!
Polls is a serve to elaborate questionaire useful to get necessary information about a specific situation. We use it to measure interests, knowledge, learnig processes and to know different opinions of students. for example: https://es.surveymonkey.com/MySurvey_EditorFull.aspx?sm=vEyM2o48RlT3jEksWiTsk1nLNYnvqBJQF6x4Q5JhSG0%3d. This is a traditional Polls.
We can use Polls to give feedback, to know what they want to learn or their personal opinions about an specific topic.
http://www.polls4u.com/home it's a quite goos web page to create your own poll. You have to create an account and then you can creat your poll. We can use them for example, after a test to know how difficult was for students or before a class, to know what they want to see or learn in the next class.
here we present you a list of diferents polls:http://www.labnol.org/internet/best-web-polling-software/6207/
one of them is :
Toluna – Toluna is an online polling software that also lets you add videos and pictures to poll answers to make them look more descriptive. The service is integrated with Plaxo so it should be easy to invite existing contacts to take your poll. (http://uk.toluna.com/)
We think that we can use polls in speaking activities, for example: A class debate, because using polls the students can research and supporting ideas and generate an interactive discussion.
For example: If the theme to discuss is about the abortion, both teams can develop certain polls to support them ideas giving the social opinion about the theme.
http://pollcode.com/ If you want to create some polls, use this page to get online results.
For example http://pollcode.com/pollcode.cgi, you can answer here the question without login and get the results instantly.
So in this case, this page is a very good and easy to use because you don't have to login. And also because you can give your opinion in a privately way.
we can use polls in order to apply metacognition, I mean each student can check their progress by using polls, adecuate obviously to the contents and knowledge of each of them.
in this case the best examples are: using polls to check meaningful learning, what I learn and what I don't learn or need more training or if I like or don't something about the teacher's class.
If you are a teacher and the "check yourself" page of the book is not the thing you want to use to check students progress use polls. I decided to create a poll in which you can answer what do you know about e.g: simple present tense.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MQ5CGZJ (poll created by me)
we can use a poll asking students if they heard about a relevant news event, to what degree they agreed with the point of view which someone presented, or if they completed the readings for a current topic.
* Voting is anonymous. * Participants may only vote once per poll. * A poll can only consist of one question. If you want to ask a set of related questions it might be better to use the Quiz & Survey tool. * You can allow spoilt votes by selecting zero as the minimum number of answer options
http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=509c1f00e4b007bdc40adb4f Take my new poll!!
ResponderEliminarEasypolls.net is quite easy to use and it shows you the results the moment you submit your answer.
Polls is a serve to elaborate questionaire useful to get necessary information about a specific situation.
ResponderEliminarWe use it to measure interests, knowledge, learnig processes and to know different opinions of students.
for example: https://es.surveymonkey.com/MySurvey_EditorFull.aspx?sm=vEyM2o48RlT3jEksWiTsk1nLNYnvqBJQF6x4Q5JhSG0%3d.
This is a traditional Polls.
*Inelia Gomez
*Rolando Contreras
*Claudia Cabrera
*Rebeca Pino
*Rolando Contreras
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/H5NXL2C
Eliminargood
EliminarWe can use Polls to give feedback, to know what they want to learn or their personal opinions about an specific topic.
ResponderEliminarhttp://www.polls4u.com/home it's a quite goos web page to create your own poll. You have to create an account and then you can creat your poll. We can use them for example, after a test to know how difficult was for students or before a class, to know what they want to see or learn in the next class.
Alejandro Moreno
Lissete Gajardo
Milenka Gutierrez
Camila Barrera
here we present you a list of diferents polls:http://www.labnol.org/internet/best-web-polling-software/6207/
ResponderEliminarone of them is :
Toluna – Toluna is an online polling software that also lets you add videos and pictures to poll answers to make them look more descriptive. The service is integrated with Plaxo so it should be easy to invite existing contacts to take your poll. (http://uk.toluna.com/)
rebeca pino, claudia cabrera, rolando contreras, aldo alvarado inelia gomez
EliminarWe think that we can use polls in speaking activities, for example: A class debate, because using polls the students can research and supporting ideas and generate an interactive discussion.
ResponderEliminarFor example: If the theme to discuss is about the abortion, both teams can develop certain polls to support them ideas giving the social opinion about the theme.
http://pollcode.com/ If you want to create some polls, use this page to get online results.
For example http://pollcode.com/pollcode.cgi, you can answer here the question without login and get the results instantly.
Results: http://poll.pollcode.com/etethc_result_duplicate
So in this case, this page is a very good and easy to use because you don't have to login. And also because you can give your opinion in a privately way.
Carla Quintanilla
Constanza Valdivia
Patricio Onetto
Keyla Castro
Maria del Castillo
we tried to create a new polls and we couldn`t.
ResponderEliminarwe will try later at home.http://uk.toluna.com/Recent/?create
Rebeca Pino
Aldo Alvarado
Inelia Gomez
Claudia Cabrera
Rolando Contreras
we can use polls in order to apply metacognition, I mean each student can check their progress by using polls, adecuate obviously to the contents and knowledge of each of them.
ResponderEliminarCynthia Jiménez
Any examples? resources?
EliminarHow can they check their progress using polls?
in this case the best examples are:
Eliminarusing polls to check meaningful learning, what I learn and what I don't learn or need more training or if I like or don't something about the teacher's class.
http://www.polleverywhere.com/classroom-response-system
I found this page very interesting
http://edudemic.com/2012/04/the-teachers-guide-to-polling-in-the-classroom/
check for this piece of work is very usefull it can solve all your doubts of using poll in classroom and teaching.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/87624844/Web-2-0-Survey-Polling-Tools-A-Quick-Guide
check your progress using polls.
EliminarIf you are a teacher and the "check yourself" page of the book is not the thing you want to use to check students progress use polls.
I decided to create a poll in which you can answer what do you know about e.g: simple present tense.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MQ5CGZJ
(poll created by me)
we can use a poll asking students if they heard about a relevant news event, to what degree they agreed with the point of view which someone presented, or if they completed the readings for a current topic.
ResponderEliminarhttp://polldaddy.com/
http://booroo.com/polls/
http://www.proprofs.com/polls/
important things to consider:
Things to Consider
* Voting is anonymous.
* Participants may only vote once per poll.
* A poll can only consist of one question. If you want to ask a set of related questions it might be better to use the Quiz & Survey tool.
* You can allow spoilt votes by selecting zero as the minimum number of answer options