Teach42

I wrote about Poll Everywhere recently, one of the more interesting Web 2.0 sites I’ve seen in a while with HUGE potential for education. In case you forgot, Poll Everywhere allows you to create polls online that people can respond to with either a cell phone via text message, or via a web based form. The results can be viewed on the web as well as embedded into PowerPoint presentations.

Well, the brains behind it are seriously considering trying to tailor it more to educators needs and are looking for some people who are willing to pilot it and provide them with feedback. This is a fantastic opportunity to get some hands on time with what I think is a service that will seriously challenge the current crop of classroom response systems.

If you’re interested, leave a comment here and I’ll forward your information to them. Please keep in mind though, and I hope this is common sense, in order to pilot this in a classroom, you DO need to be able to use cell phones on school grounds! If cell phones are completely banned at your school, please don’t respond. But if you’ve got a forward thinking administration that’s interested in pushing the boundaries a little bit and seeing what’s possible, here’s your chance to get in on the ground floor and to help them mold their application into something that would be really useful to schools.