Creating teachable moments through suspense and hope

A highly effective method of teaching is to stop intermittently during a lecture and take a poll. Why invest in special clicker technology to achieve this when the Moodle Choice activity can be set up as a simple poll? Here is an example of how this can be used in a face-to-face setting. Try this in your test course:

1. Set up three quick polls in Moodle relating to your topic. Each one will have a different web address, something like this: http://school.demo.moodle.net/mod/choice/view.php?id=170
2. At three intervals during your lecture, ask the learners to form small groups and discuss the answers for 5 minutes.
3. Shorten the links into something like bit.ly/2015zwq so that you can write these on a whiteboard (go to www.bit.ly or www.goo.gl to shorten the URL).
4. Using a bring your own device approach, ask one person from each group to submit their group answer to the poll.
5. You can configure the Choice activity to automatically show what other people...