Many of you already know about Socrative and Kahoot and, if you are like me, you love them. Sometimes I wonder if I'm using Kahoot too much that it's going to lose it's impact. I found some other websites that you might be interested in using in your classroom.
The first one I am loving is called Acquainted. Each poll is called a conversation. The student interface looks like a text message and it's very easy for the teacher to set. You choose a welcome message, ask the questions and write a goodbye message. All of the questions are multiple choice and you can choose to put in a response for each answer choice. So if you are asking students questions about the lesson you can give them feedback as to if they choose the right answer or why their answer is wrong. You can see the results as a bar graph, but won't be able to identify which student choose which answer. I still think it's a valuable tool particularly with the feedback that you are able to provide.
Swift is a polling platform that can be used via web and/or text. It also allowed open ended responses. You are limited with the free plan and can only have 50 responses per 30 days. What is nice about it is that you can embed a poll (like I did below) on a website or in a PowerPoint. The option to send students to a new page after submitting a text response could help you keep your students on task. The option to instantly show poll results could be helpful in starting discussions in your classroom.
Last up is Poll Everywhere. This was one of the first surveying/polling website I remember. What I liked about it was the your students could respond via text messaging. This was great when students had phone that could only text and not get online. You can still have student respond via text, but there is also a website that students can use which is ideal if you have laptops or ipads that your students are using.
Poll Everywhere has a lot of different choices and I'm sure you will find one that suits you.
