Mentimeter
Mentimeter is a web 2.0 tool teachers or educators can use in a classroom or presentation. By asking the audience a question you can gain instant feedback on that question by using mobile phones, tablets, or any other internet connected device. Mentimeter is not only free but very easy to use and a great lite 2.0 web tool to incorporate into the classroom. There is also no limit to the number of votes or answers you can collect to your question.
As an educator you could ask your audience what they are most looking forward to learning about in this class or how they even heard about the class in the first place. By surveying your audience in this way you can gain feedback from lots of people in a very short period of time as well as getting a visual representation of these findings in a sleek graph form.
This tool can be used in the classroom to remove that anxiety associated with having to raise a hand or answering the question wrong and looking silly in front of the whole class. Your answer to Mentimeter is anonymous and allows everybody the opportunity to engage in the class with no fear of ridicule. This is a great tool for those shy members of the audience or if you want to gain lots of feedback quickly.
Like all the other Web 2.0 tools I have looked at Mentimeter is also not restricted to any age group, it’s more important for the class facilitator to choose appropriate questions and an appropriate time to use Mentimeter to ensure its success.
