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Interaction in Larger Classes
Belinda Allan
ICT Coordinator and English Lecturer
MUNI Language Centre

What’s going on here?
Are students’ brains active? Are students active?
What interaction is there?
•When was this?
•Have larger classes changed since then?

What are the challenges?
How can we deal with it?
What opportunities are there?
●Fear of speaking (such a large crowd)
●Feedback lag
○Please ask questions at the end.
●Single-speaker paradigm
○only one talking at a time
○(similar problem for a Zoom meeting)

Simple ideas:
•nearpod lessons
•polling / questioning the audience (Socrative / Mentimeter / Slido / DirectPoll / VoxVote /
PollEverywhere)
With questions results:
•Create a WordCloud

Piece of duct tape sticking a note to the slide
Sooooo many options!!
Socrative / Mentimeter / Slido / DirectPoll / VoxVote / PollEverywhere / AhaSlides / Second Street
/ VeVox / Conference i/o / …

Ponder = what do we want?
-free,
-can have large audience of …,
-can create X polls,
-WordCloud?
-graph?

Piece of duct tape sticking a note to the slide
Google can be your friend
Google loves to help!
For example, search “free live poll”
or “free live wordcloud”

Try a page that lists many options (and reviews them)
●https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2018/02/17-of-best-surveys-and-polls-creation.html
●https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/12/15-good-tools-for-quickly-gathering.html#.WpcEdRPwai4
●https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2016/06/12-great-formative-assessment-tools-for.html
●https://oedb.org/ilibrarian/polling-classroom-4-free-polling-tools-keep-students-engaged/

“Let’s Try Something” Time
Go to app.goSoapBox.com
Code: 872 658 627

Software Research Project
https://padlet.com/2425592/interaction


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