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Google Meet Polls

"Polls are a great way to quickly gauge the pulse of your audience. You can use polls to identify topics that need more discussion or test understanding of the meeting content." "Polls in Meet ensure that presenters can get the feedback they need and audience members can make themselves heard, leading to an all-around more engaging, productive, and enjoyable meeting experience."

https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2020/10/meet-polling-q-a.html

Ways to use Polls in the Classroom:

1. Exit Ticket

Cindy Nordstrom, a teacher at Oak Ridge Elementary School in Minnesota, uses polling to make sure students understand the main points of a lesson. She explains, “We were studying poetry and talking about novels in verse. Since this was the first time that most students had encountered the format, I wanted to see if they knew what novels in verse were. I created this poll as an exit slip for the class. I could click on students’ answers and see their names associated with their response. This helped me get an at-a-glance view of who understood the concept and who didn't.” (https://blog.google/topics/education/4-ways-to-use-polling-in-google-classroo/)

2.Help students self-monitor

Mike Fricano, a high school teacher at the Iolani School in Hawaii, teaches a makerspace course called Make It 101. He polled his class to see if his students were on track for meeting a project deadline. Fricano says, “When I sent out this poll, I could see who was on schedule and who was at risk of missing their deadline. For those who reported being "way off track," I met with them to help them get back on schedule. I will continue to use multiple choice polls like this to check in on deadlines and gauge interest in future projects.” (https://blog.google/topics/education/4-ways-to-use-polling-in-google-classroo/)

3. Get feedback on your lesson from students

Allyson Greene of Barrett Elementary School in Virginia uses polls to understand what her students liked best about a lesson. She says, “We were doing a unit on electricity and forces and I wanted to see which part of the unit was the most fun for them. Setting up a poll was very easy.” (https://blog.google/topics/education/4-ways-to-use-polling-in-google-classroo/)

4. Break the ice: fun polls to kick start the meeting

Jumping from one video meeting to the next can be challenging for many people, so it’s important to periodically take the time to pause, engage with teammates, and help get to know one another. Polls are a great way to do an icebreaker, and when used at the start of the meeting they are a great way to capture everyone's attention and be present in the moment.

Here’s an icebreaker that you can try in your next meeting: “If you could time travel, would you want to go to the past or future?” (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/google-meet/introducing-qa-and-polls-in-google-meet)

5. Make the audience feel like they are part of the presentation

Polls are a great way to bring life to a meeting by involving your audience during your presentation. Not only does this help keep your audience captivated, but it also helps to make meetings more fun. For example, one of the most memorable meetings I’ve attended used a format of asking the audience a poll question, displaying the results, then following up with an insight that often contradicted what most of the audience believed. I can’t say I had the most correct answers, but I will say that we all had fun and it kept an audience of nearly a hundred people on their toes.(https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/google-meet/introducing-qa-and-polls-in-google-meet)

Google Classroom Videos

In this video I highlight some of the google classroom features that are here to support teachers and students that we might of missed!

https://shorts.flipgrid.com/watch/13039264196985329

Technology Resources

Flipgrid- Teachers make a topic with a prompt, question or video and students answer back with their own video. Students can also reply to others. How to for teachers How to for students

Edpuzzle- Teachers can upload videos or go to the video library and assign to students. What is great about edpuzzle is that teachers can then embed questions into the video to check for understanding. Already made resource of edpuzzle videos for math and science

BreakoutEdu- Online escape rooms

Kahoot- Play a live game of Kahoot!, but with students or whole classes in another location – home, different campus, even different country. Participants use Kahoot! with an online video conferencing tool (with screen sharing capability) to facilitate this. You can also assign students to do the online quiz as well. How to

Gimkit- Students answer questions on their own device at their own pace. Throughout a Kit, each student will get exposure to the questions multiple times to ensure mastery.

Quizlet- From flashcards to help you learn francais, to games that make it easy to get a handle on history, use a variety of tools to conquer any challenge. Can also do quizlet live.

MCAS problems

https://pbskids.org/designsquad