Today’s tech snack is called riddle and can be found at the following url: http://www.riddle.com.
What is it?
Riddle is a free student response system. With riddle, you can create polls, surveys, online quizzes, personality tests and commenticles. (Commenticles allow you to share an online articles and provide commentary on it.) In order to use riddle, you have to create a free account. After you have signed up for your account, you can start creating content. Riddle uses a click and drag interface that is fairly easy to understand. You can provide videos, images, and files from your computer or online to anything you create on riddle.
Riddle is easy to use, and can be used with students in grades 3-12. Since students only have access to the riddle urls you provide for them, you could easily use this tool to create a blended learning experience. If you have access to an lcd projector, you could project live results on the screen as students go through the urls. This way every student's voice is recorded but no student is singled out for incorrect responses. You could also have students access the urls from home, then use that information during the in-class session. ( Example: “So, according to the results, half the class feels that cats are better than dogs. Let’s dive into these results some more…). This way every student's voice is recorded but no student is singled out for incorrect responses. These exercises are meant to be quick and help the teacher "get a feel" for the room and gauge understanding.