Transcript Interaction through mobile phone polling during synchronous teaching sessions Helen Wozniak: FlindersNT, School of Medicine Cyndie McCarley: Flinders, School of Medicine/School of Education.

Interaction through mobile phone
polling during synchronous
teaching sessions
Helen Wozniak: FlindersNT,
School of Medicine
Cyndie McCarley: Flinders,
School of Medicine/School of
Education
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Context: Flinders Northern Territory
Medical Program (NTMP)
• Year 1-2 Pre-clinical years at Charles
Darwin University campus since 2011
– Local teaching- small group PBL, anatomy
clinical skills
– Video-conference lectures from Adelaide
• Year 3-4 clinical years 5 sites across NT
since 1998
– Clinical teaching at all 5 sites, small groups
– Video conference sessions across all NT sites
• Approx 120 students (25-30 per year)
• Indigenous entry stream (total 16 students
currently)
Why use polling?
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aka Audience Response System
• Power of technology to create a bridge
between people separated by time and place
• Untapped potential of mobile/ tablet devices
• Student expectations of interaction (already
using Facebook messaging back channel
which academic staff cannot access)
(Horizon Report: Johnson et al 2012, 2013)
Are all audience response
systems the same?
• NO
• We needed
– Web or mobile phone polling
– Ability to link students separated by
distance from each other and lecturers
– No special software requirements
• ANSWER
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How do you set it up?
• Web interface to
create questions
• Question Types:
MCQ or free text
• Can insert poll
embedded in ppt
slide and run poll
via powerpoint or
from a unique
simple web url
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How do students vote?
• Students vote via web address (free) or sending text code
(txt charge) to mobile number (twitter also an option)
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How do you see results?
• Several options
– Real time within ppt presentation (you can
see the votes come in or choose to wait until
everyone has voted then show results)
– Via webpage
– After session: download results table as excel
spreadsheet
Next some examples
Example 1
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• Year 1 Video conference lecture
Intro to e-learning for medical course held in Darwin
• Darwin students and Adelaide students (3 votes each)
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Example 2
• Year 1 local session- intro to group work
• Start of session - Opinion about PBL (MCQ style)
• End of session – Student opinions gathered about
group learning via free text responses
• Page allows you to scroll down through responses
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Example 3
• Year 3 session at 4 different sites (1,500km
apart) responding to question at same time
• Enabled tutors in each site to determine
student progress with assessment and tailor
session to student needs
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Neat features
• You can change the poll on the fly and
the updates appear immediately in your
powerpoint
• Subscription provides you with a unique
and easy url to use for voting
• Works well on mobile devices
• Accepts free text comments (not limited
to MCQ’s)
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Drawbacks
• License cost if you want > 40 students
to vote or >1 presenter on the account
• Limited ability to customise look and
feel- more options from Sept 2013
• Bringing in a new interface Sept 2013
which will require MSPowerpoint plug in
(may be drawback as computers will need plug in)
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Questions / Comments?
• Try it now
• Go to url: pollev.com/ntmp
(no www in web address)
Thanks for watching!
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Poll