Poll Everywhere is looking for some Pilots. Interested?

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.

37 Comments

Glenn
12/4/2007

Steve – If you want to hook an administrator up I’ll see if I can’t get some of my teachers using.

Tom Turner
12/4/2007

Sure Steve…I’ll give at it a go. You have my information somewheres I’m sure

corrie
12/4/2007

We’ve got several faculty using clickers and more that may be interested. This sounds like it might have legs.

Diana Laufenberg
12/4/2007

Count me in! Would love to give a spin with my students!

Damian Bariexca
12/4/2007

I’d like some more info as well; thanks.

Teryl Magee
12/4/2007

You know I’m game to give it a whirl!

Zac Chase
12/5/2007

Dembo, I’m in. C’mon, how could Science Leadership Academy not pilot this?

Ray Waller
12/5/2007

Fortunately our admin is always piloting and experimenting with different new techologies, I’m doing a staff insevice in January on cooperative learning and this would be a great introductory oppotunity so yes, please include me.

Scott Meech
12/5/2007

Hey… IL DEN guy… come on… throw me another bone if you will… Would love a crack at this as it is an amazing tool!

Melissa V
12/6/2007

I teach for a digital school and would love to give this a try.

John
12/6/2007

I would very much be interesting in trying this tool out in Distance Learning formats. Please let me know how I can start piloting. thnx!

Alex
12/6/2007

i am interested.

i have been thinking about tweaking online polls into online quizzes for kids at home

Angela R
12/6/2007

I work for the same digital school as Melissa V above as an AYP Math coach. I think this polling would work well when working with students on questions and answers that have been on old proficiency tests.

Carolyn R
12/6/2007

Hey Steve,
I trust you. If you say it’s a great opp then I believe you.
I am always testing things out in our school system. I would love to be a part!!

Pam Carr
12/7/2007

This sounds great. I’m in!

Jani D.
12/8/2007

I also teach online so we would have no issues with banned cell phones. I would love to try this.

Susan Brooks-Young
12/8/2007

Hi Steve,

If they’re interested in piloting with adult learners (teachers and administrators), I’d be game to give it a go.

Joe R
12/10/2007

Would like to give it a try with my sixth graders, the know it all text crowd!

Donna S.
12/11/2007

I’d love to try it out. Looks like even a budding tech teacher might be able to manage.

Jethro
12/11/2007

I will be a pilot. I looked at the site, but didn’t find anything about education, so I guess we have to go through you. Sign me up. jethro[dawt]jones[at]gmail

Thanks

JBlack
12/13/2007

Would be very willing to trial this out in the classroom. Sounds interesting! Have just recently had my students use cell phones to make podcasts (using Gabcast.com) Let me know if I can participate.

Nick
12/17/2007

Science consultant working with 17 schools. Happy to do whatever I can. Can bank on a minimum of 2 or 3 schools who will be keen.

Daniel Moon
12/17/2007

If they’re still looking for people to try this out, I’d like to give it a shot. I know our school just purchased one student response system as a pilot and it would be interesting to see if this could be a viable alternative.

I teach technology and social studies to 6th graders.

Jen
12/18/2007

We’ve got instructors using PRS now who may be interested. I also have a group of 10 who are doing paper-based peer evaluations, if you think this may work. They basically have a list of 20 students who each get a number score in 3 areas.
Jen

Ryan
12/19/2007

I would be very interested in giving this system a try. If they still need interested people, I would love to help pilot it.

Nancy
12/20/2007

I work as an ITRT in a school with a laptop initiative. We would love to give it a try.

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Mike
12/26/2007

Middle School teacher – as my kids would say – luv 2 gv it a try!

Brian Rock
1/2/2008

That definitely looks cool, but unfortunately cell phones are taboo in my school. No can do.

However, I did play around with it a bit and I figured out how to embed the results of the poll into a website. If anyone’s interested, I wrote up a short tutorial – http://www.teachbabel.com/bloggin/poll-everywhere.html

Good luck to those with enlightened administrators.

Jen Dorman
1/5/2008

I am definitely interested in piloting this. It would integrate well with the goals of my Online Connections course.

Kristen B
1/8/2008

I teach for a digital school online and would love to try this with my students.

Mike
2/12/2008

Steve–I’d be interested in trying this out.

No problem with phones or administration. Let me know what I need to do.

Thanks.

Janice Conger
2/13/2008

Steve, I would love to try this out. I was not able to attend your keynote at PETE&C but I just watched it on USTREAM and I went right to the site and checked it out. Pretty cool! Librarians are always looking for assessment tools!

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paul
4/6/2009

I would love to try this in my classroom. Alwasy looking for something different

Valerie
9/20/2009

I would love to try this program. I have done research on the topic of cellphones in the classrom and would like to try it out on a group of high school students