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Have you ever wondered how to make your lessons more engaging and interactive for your students? Do you want to get real-time feedback from your learners and check their understanding of the topics you teach? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you might want to try using mentimeter in your classroom.
In the 21st century, a lot of advancements and innovations happened, particularly in education. Years ago, teachers and students used traditional ways of instructions, but as technology has advanced, it has also played an important role in our educational system. As teachers and students participated in the learning process, technology provided numerous benefits. Many social media platforms have been developed, allowing users to interact and connect with one another. Educational technology was also created to allow students and teachers to collaborate and learn in a meaningful way.
In this blog, we will show you how to use MENTIMETER in education. We will also discuss some of the benefits and challenges of using this tool. Whether you teach online or face-to-face, MENTIMETER can help you create more interactive and meaningful learning experiences for your students.
MENTIMETER is a web-based app that allows you to create presentations with live polls, quizzes, word clouds, Q&A sessions, and more. You can use it to spice up your lectures, stimulate discussions, assess learning outcomes, and have fun with your students. All you need is a device with an internet connection and a projector or screen to display your slides. Your students can participate using their own devices, such as smartphones, tablets, or laptops, by simply entering a code or scanning a QR code.
MENTIMETER app was started by Swedish entrepreneur Johnny Warström and Niklas Ingvar as a response to unproductive meetings. It has four founders and they are Johnny Warström, Niklas Ingvar, Henrik Fräsén, and Kristoffer Renholm. This app is a tool that users can share their knowledge and real-time feedback on their mobile. They create this Mentimeter that would be benefit themselves to response to unproductive meetings.
FUNCTIONS OF MENTIMETER
MENTIMETER is a helpful presentation-based digital tool that allows educators to make the most of its features for teaching, including quizzes, polls, and word clouds. It allows teachers to ask questions quickly and for students to respond to the questions using their computer or mobile device. Teachers can ask a variety of question types, including multiple choice and word answer to get real-time input from students. It also supports collecting questions from students in real-time.
MENTIMETER could be described as clickers, a student response system, a classroom response system, and/or an audience response system. The idea here is to make the creation of whole class, group, or individual quizzes and more, all very easy to create and use. As such, you can be more efficient with your time as an educator while students can easily engage with all the material you have on offer.
MENTIMETER's primary purpose, as with all other polling tools, is to gather assessment information easily on how the full class is doing.
This includes:
Pre-assessments before teaching a topic
Quick comprehension checks during or after teaching a topic
Gathering feedback on the process of learning (e.g., what’s one question you still have?)
MENTIMETER offers several pre-made icebreaker templates and suggestions to use with your students.
Use polls as discussion starters and get students motivated to engage in class discussions.
How to create a poll using MENTIMETER?
To create a poll in MENTIMETER, log in to your account and click on New Presentation from within your dashboard.
Type in a name for your presentation.
Choose a slide type from the right hand panel.
Click on the Content tab and add your questions.
In the Customize tab, you get to work on the settings of your slides.
BONUS!
Here's a tutorial from MENTIMETER, on how to create your first Menti (poll)
Advantages of using MENTIMETER
Anonymous answers allow students feel that they can contribute in a safe, non-judgmental environment.
It is quick for lecturers and tutors to create the slides needed for the MENTIMETER presentation.
Students say that they find the tool easy and quick to use.
Engage with students using live polls, word clouds, quizzes, multiple-choice questions and more.
Communicate and interact with your students.
Disadvantages of using MENTIMETER
Because Mentimeter responses are anonymous, it is not possible to identify which students have contributed.
Students can contribute only if they have a Wi-Fi connected device.
Once students have submitted their answers, they are unable to retrieve or edit their responses; this has left some students feeling frustrated and, occasionally, embarrassed over errors that have been made.
In conclusion, this Mentimeter has many features that assist teachers to conduct their lessons to be more engaging and effective. With this tool, teacher’s responsibility and their time and effort to make their lesson will be lessen. It has differet features that everyone can utilize. Truly, mentimeter is a helpful tool to everyone particularly for teachers. It is used to engage students with live polls, word clouds, quizzes, multiple choice questions, and more. One of the best features of mentimeter is that it allows the learners to leave a comment or a question on every slide or link that is sent to them. The learners can also do peer comments because mentimeter allows it to do so. However, you cannot access it when you do not have a Wi-fi connected device. But overall, it was useful and helpful tool that we, pre-service teacher, should know how to use these tool.
References:
https://www.mentimeter.com/investors https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentimeter#:~:text=2%20Present%20day-,Foundation%20and%20background,a%20response%20to%20unproductive%20meetings.
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