And The Survey Says…

Interactive classrooms are the way to engage your students. In larger classes or lectures, it can be difficult to get all students involved in a discussion.

By using surveys and polls, it is easy to gain an immediate instructional response. Student are more apt to participate with the learning material through short questions & quizzes in a large group setting with new online resources.

Quick assessments help students learn material, review important concepts, itemize learning outcomes, prepare for assignments/tests and help the educator understand how much has been learned. Here are just a few surveys & poll resources that I have tried for the classroom, seminars, workshops and research collection:

• Survey Monkey
• Survs
• Zoomerang
• Poll Daddy
• Classroom Clickers
• ProProfs
• Twitter Search & Tags

If you have others you like/prefer… please share!

Photo Sharing… Say Cheese!

NACADA Tech was a great seminar for sharing & swapping ideas for photo sharing. I have learned:

• Geo-Everything (tagging) is on it’s way in
• Cool ideas for event photo sharing
• Clouds – data collection
• Experiential learning with online tools
• Web communication plans with students
• What others are thinking about for their campus
• Challenges to online university/college advisin
• What’s on the horizon in technology & how we’ll plan for it

Be sure to check out more photos on the NACADA Technology Seminar Flickr Group. Smile!