PollEverywhere Brings Text Polls to Your Audience
polleverywhere.com SMS Audience Response System
We’ve introduced you to our new series at Water’s Edge called “You Decide.” The essence of this series is the opportunity for students to text in questions and topics for us to cover in our teaching. To facilitate this, we’re using the SMS poll service from polleverywhere.com.
It seems really simple from the audience’s viewpoint. At the start of each service we invite students to text in any questions they’d like us to address. “Simply text ‘youdecide’ and your question to 99503,” I say, and questions start rolling in. “Have Twitter? Just tweet an @reply to @poll with ‘youdecide’ and your question. And if you don’t have a cell phone, you can always go to our website, watersedgeyouth.com and follow the link to submit a question.”
During the week, students can check the live text wall at watersedgeyouth.com and see what questions come in. As questions are submitted, we moderate the answers to make sure inappropriate messages don’t get posted to the wall of our website.
And all of it is made possible by polleverywhere.com.
