Mentimeter – Share Slides and Poll Your Class on One Screen
Mentimeter is an online polling and quiz tool that I’ve used since its launch over a decade ago. In that time it has evolved and added lots of helpful features for teachers. One of those features is the ability to broadcast your slides to your students’ computers, tablets, and phones. Doing that makes it easy […]
Using Mood Clouds in Virtual and Hybrid Classrooms
Earlier this I published a video about creating and hosting polls in Google Slides with the Poll Everywhere Chrome extension. When I published that I mentioned that I use the word cloud option and have students respond to simple questions like “how do you feel after the long weekend?” and “what’s the best word to […]
Try Mentimeter for Classroom Quiz Games
Mentimeter is one of the tools that I regularly feature when talking about gathering realtime, online feedback from students. It’s a great platform for quick, informal polls. Mentimeter is also great for making fun quiz games to use for review activities in your classroom. Mentimeter lets you create slides that then become the basis of […]
TodaysMeet Is Shutting Down – Six Alternatives to Try
TodaysMeet is shutting down. James Socol, the creator and only developer of TodaysMeet, has announced that he’s shutting it down on June 16th. I’m going to miss it and I know that a lot of you will too. I encourage you to read the announcement that James posted because it will give you a good […]
Mentimeter Adds a New Q&A Feature
Mentimeter, one of the tools that I often mention for conducting formative assessments, has just released a new Q&A feature. The new feature will let your audience submit questions that they want you to answer. Additionally, members of the audience can vote for the questions that they want you to answer. The new Mentimeter Q&A […]
Mentimeter Adds a New Way for Audiences to Respond to Your Slides
Mentimeter is a audience response tool that I’ve been using off and on for a few years now. Mentimeter’s core product lets you create polls and quizzes for your audience to respond to during your presentations. Your audience members can respond from their phones, tablets, or laptops. The latest feature added to Mentimeter is called […]
Mentimeter Adds Options for Image-based Polling
Mentimeter is a convenient service that lets you create and distribute poll questions for an audience to answer during a presentation. Your audience can respond to your questions on their phones, tablets, or laptops. Earlier this year Mentimeter added a quiz option to their services. That option works much like Kahoot or Socrative. This week […]
Mentimeter Adds a Quiz Option to Their Polling Service
Mentimeter is a nice service that allows you to pose a question to your audience and get instant feedback on that question through cell phones, tablets, and any other Internet-connected device. I reviewed the service a few years ago. Since then Mentimeter has added some more options for teachers. The latest option added to Mentimeter is […]