Poll Everywhere : Use Twitter in PowerPoint

 

Your audience - or even your students - are tweeting : How do you draw them into your presentation?

By asking for their opinion, and displaying their tweets directly in your PowerPoint slides.

With Poll Everywhere, you can invite people to tweet a short comment directly to your slide in real-time, while still blocking inappropriate or off-topic tweets. You can also ask multiple choice questions and watch a graph evolve as people vote. 

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Comments

[Vince Stevenson]

Your audience - or even your students - are tweeting : How do you draw them into your presentation? Is that absolutely true? I suspect not. I have attended a number of professional seminars recently where as is the norm, the host requests that mobiles be switched off. I think showing live Tweet feeds in a PowerPoint session is very clever, but I think it's also a massive distraction which would damage the overall impact of the presentation. PowerPoint when inappropriately used can be hard work from the audience perspective, best not to invite your students to be further distracted. Rgds Vince

[Jane Hart]

Vince

This is an interesting viewpoint in the emerging era of collaborative and participative learning. Having a more interactive presentation is an aim that many presenters have; i.e. not just speaking AT their audience but involving them IN the presentation. I'd be interested to hear others' views on this

[Tim Crangle]

Interesting comment from Vince. Perhaps the attention issue could go one way or another. I could see myself using this with young adult students who are "addicted" to social media as a "gimmick" to heighten their attention to what was on the screen by encouraging them to add comments, questions or answers.

[Craig Wiggins]

I see Vince's point, though I can tell you that as a conference attendee, I would stiffen slightly at the notion that i should turn off my mobile device(s) - they are a way for me to record key points for later consideration and disseminate what i am learning.

Though I haven't yet seen it in action, I'd think that something like Poll Everywhere would only increase my engagement in a presentation.

[Bhavinee Vyas]

This is much like using quick surveys for Webinar audiences. I think it's a great way to build interactivity and get the participants engaged with the presentation.