Deb Norton Tech

This past summer, I presented many webinars online. One of the best tools I found for engaging the audience during the live webinars was Slido .  Once a person adds the Slido add-on , they can open Slido in a Google Presentation and add a poll question that the audience will be able to participate in in real time. With Slido a person can: 📊 Create word clouds and other live polls directly in the presentation 🏆 Run a competitive quiz with leaderboard 🙋‍♀️ Collect the most burning questions with live Q&A Here is a video showing how Slido works: After using Slido, a person can always go back and review a poll question and see the results again. If you are looking for a simple and effective polling tool to use with Google Slides, I highly recommend giving Slido a try.

Active Prompt is a clever visual polling - survey site. It's really pretty simple to use and no account is required. First find an image.  Next ask others to drag a red dot to a certain location on the image. (You only have 24 characters, so keep it short)  Share the link for others to participate. Check out the results with the link to the responses I used Active Prompt to see which social network people like best. Try it out! Click here to participate. Click here to see the responses. Here are some possible ways to use Active Prompt in the classroom: Active Prompt would be a great way to see if your students understand a concept.  Your students could collect data using Active Prompt and graph the results. Active Prompt would be a neat way for you to conduct a quick poll on an issue or debate. Use images that illustrate a story and then periodically have students show understanding of the story by marking a part of the illu...