{"id":4955,"date":"2016-02-10T09:12:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T09:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/?p=4955"},"modified":"2016-02-10T09:12:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T09:12:04","slug":"mentimeter-a-free-online-voting-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2016\/02\/mentimeter-a-free-online-voting-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Mentimeter: A Free Online Voting System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An easy way to do voting in the classroom is to use an online voting system that will do real-time voting and engage with your students. Mentimeter could be such a tool:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentimeter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> https:\/\/www.mentimeter.com\/. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can register for the free option to start with and design your own questions. During the class make sure that students have a smart phone and wireless access. They will access your voting site with a unique PIN number, then they can vote real time. A little tip, I have found that it is better to hide the screen results while students submit their votes as they get influenced by the responses of fellow students &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Some of the core features can be accessed on this<a title=\"core features\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mentimeter.com\/features\" target=\"_blank\"> page<\/a> and will depend of the version you use (free, basic or pro)<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mentortijd.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/mentimeter-howitworks.png\" width=\"620\" height=\"433\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">voting system<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An easy way to do voting in the classroom is to use an online voting system that will do real-time voting and engage with your students. Mentimeter could be such a tool: https:\/\/www.mentimeter.com\/. You can register for the free option &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2016\/02\/mentimeter-a-free-online-voting-system\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblearn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4955"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4965,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955\/revisions\/4965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}