Had to take a minute to share this one. I've played a bit with PollEverywhere this year and really enjoyed how easy it is to create a quick poll and have the class use whatever means they want (texting, web-based entry, tweeting) to respond on the spot. Today I did that with my Microbiology class and asked them to use text-entry to give me a few association words that came to their mind when they thought of microbes. After polling them PollEverywhere gave me the option of reporting the results as a word cloud - here it is:
I have a previous post about word clouds but I absolutely loved this application of them - allowed me to show them the most common words that they had across their answers (the bigger the word the more common it was). Too cool and I think they appreciated it as well.
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