Mobile Learning Lab

For this lab, I became a memeber of Classroom 2.0 (http://www.classroom20.com/).  I had never heard about this site and found a lot of great groups that I could join and learn from.  This is a great way to grow my personal learning community and connect with others about my teaching.  I found a lot of wonderful questions and answers about technology.  There are many topics that peaked my interest and that I could converse about, such as classroom management and cell phone use in the classroom.  I think of other places that I've joined or explored to to grow my personal learning community, and this is much more appealing.

I also explored Poll Everywhere (http://www.polleverywhere.com/) and was able to create a poll that can be responded to via text message.  I am a 2nd and 3rd grade teacher who works on the School Improvement Team as well.  I have been working with this team of educators to gather information from teachers and staff members, students, and parents.  We created  a series of surveys to get some of the information we needed.  One of the questions in our school's report required us to give the average number of years that teachers had been teaching.  Instead of going from room to room and chasing teachers around the school, Poll Everywhere would have been such a better way to go about it.   We could have taken one minute to type the question and teachers could respond the next time they took out their phone.  The poll was so easy to create and I think that it is a great way to get a response from people because it is so simple to text someone- no need to sign into a website, answer 10 annoying questions, then submit it.  The responses show up right away on the Poll Everywhere site.  This would be a much better way to get responses to a poll that's being conducted.