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Polling

Tools: Virtual conferencing

The facilitator will need to set up:

• a virtual conference space or room
• a prepared list of polling questions
• a polling function with questions loaded.

Strategies: community building; knowledge sharing

Students are polled on a number of questions and these are used to generate debate and conversation.

• During the session the facilitator introduces polling questions as they relate to a topic or other session activities, and students are asked to vote.
• As students vote on the issue they can see how their opinion compares with those of other students.
• Polling can also be used to revise previous sessions. For example, to ask students about the meaning of a concept that was covered in a previous session.
• The results can be used by the facilitator to engage students in the issue. This can add a further dimension to an activity as students are commenting on their own votes and those of their peers.

Sourced from Lyn Hamilton.

Find out more

For more about the tools and practice related to this activity go to:

• Tools – Virtual conferencing, or
• Case studies – Virtual conferencing. See Building a class with virtual conferencing, Graeme Wilton; Creating communities with virtual conferencing, Lyn Hamilton

To find more virtual conferencing activities use the links at the top of this page.

 

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