Engaging Your Audience with a Poll

Every so often I come across a really cool (mostly free) tool that I want to share with the world. This is one of them! My thanks to Buffy Hamilton for making a very detailed posting about it on the ALA Learning blog. She starts by saying:

One of the coolest tools I have discovered for engaging teen learners....as well as adult participants in my presentations is the service Poll Everywhere.

Poll Everywhere allows you to pose a question to your audience via an embedded widget on your website or blog; you can also embed a poll directly into a PowerPoint! Your audience members can then respond to your poll via SMS text, Twitter, or the web.

Please read the full post to learn more about it. She give real life examples of putting this tool to use with photos and tutorials. Use of this technology is free for questions allowing up to 30 responses, which is perfect for a small training session or a teen advisory group. And you can customize the auto-responder message for cell phone users. Poll results automatically update on your PowerPoint slide, web pages, blog posts, web forums or almost any other technology that works in a web browser.

If you are a Cumberland County library staff person and decide to use this, please let me know! I'd love to hear about your success or experience.