TECHY TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS & EFL

The challenges in the new millennium require that both teachers and students become competent users of ICT, able to integrate Web 2.0 tools into their daily teaching and learning. Many of these tools are currently being used by educators to teach ESL or EFL. This blog is dedicated to those tools which can easily be adapted for use in the English classroom. It's a question of using these tools in innovative ways in order to engage our digital learners and motivate them to learn English!

Saturday, October 20, 2012

USING POLLS WITH STUDENTS

Let’s talk about POLLS.

A poll is a survey used to give a public opinion about a specific topic or question. Using a poll with in your class allows you to ask one multiple choice question and receive results which will reflect how other students feel about a particular subject. Nowadays, most polls are being asked online. An online poll tool gives you the opportunity to receive instant information or feedback from other students in your class. You can use create polls to use on your computer or on any device such as a smartphone, ipod or ipad.

Some easy sites to make polls are:

Look at this example.

Let students control some of their own learning by giving them the opportunity to be active and feel that they are the 'creator' of learning activities such as this one!