After exploring Poll Everywhere I liked that you had the option of answering via cell phone or through the website. I was excited at the possibilities of using this tool with my students except for our very strict no cell phones policy in our school district and after asking my administrator if I could use this in my classroom I was reminded of this policy. Instead, I decided to poll my friends and family about their favorite class in school. I e-mailed, tweeted and facebooked my poll and was surprised by the conversation it started. My aunt was really excited about using the poll and sparked a conversation about technology on my Facebook page. She was excited about possibly using Poll Everywhere in her job - she is a Vice President for CETUSA (Council for Educational Travel USA) - dealing with her foreign exchange students and placement coordinators. I wasn't surprised by the actual responses I got since most of the people who ended up replying were either science teachers or friends who are engineers :)
The link to my poll can be found here.
Classroom 2.0
I can see myself spending a lot of time here. After browsing through a few conversations about cell phones, I'm going to bring up the idea of revisiting our district's cell phone policy at our next BAT (Building Advisory Team) meeting. We're getting too combative in trying to keep our students from using their cell phones and electronic devices instead of finding ways to make them useful. Just this week I began yelling at a student for using her cell phone in class when she looked at me and said, "but I was just looking up the equation for photosynthesis since I couldn't find it my book." I was so startled I started to laugh. Here we are thinking that all students are off task if they are using cell phones in class :)
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