Course Description:

Explore how to use Mentimeter efficiently. Learn how to embed effective and seamless online interactive presentations. Explore ways to gather learner data in seconds. Mentimeter is a cloud-based tool that allows you to engage and interact with your target audience in real-time. It is a polling tool that allows you to gain insight and feedback based on your audience’s response. Mentimeter shows the results live while your participants are voting with the web-based mobile polling app directly in their browser, making sure everyone is participating and engaged in your presentation. You can check for understanding or take a poll of your audience to get their immediate feedback from any device connected to the Internet. The platform enables professionals to collect data via live polls, quizzes, and questions in real-time and analyze data to gain insights into trends. Team members can also use the system to translate content into multiple languages, collect feedback via surveys, and control lectures via smartphones.

Course Time: This training is estimated to take about 2 hours to complete.

SDCOE Innovation Division Innovative Digital Learning Micro-courses are featured in our digital professional learning program for educators to learn technology tools to increase innovation and equitable learning practices. Reflective digital professional learnings provide school districts with innovative solutions for professional growth. These asynchronous and synchronous micro-courses will provide resources, best instructional practices, technology tools, and guided support for educators as they move forward with virtual, blended, and in-person teaching and learning. Educators, administrators, and school staff will learn tips and strategies to support high quality equity and access to distance learning for all students. Integrating these technology resources in instruction will support educators to improve and customize learning for all students.  Be inspired as you access a repository of resources and tutorials that promote a reflective practice to improve equity within distance learning.

Innovative Digital Learning Micro-courses are designed to:

• enhance educators' technology use for communication, critical-thinking, collaboration, creativity and innovation.
• support educators to improve and customize instruction for all students in a virtual, blended or in-person classroom.
• provide asynchronous professional learning options for the teachers (i.e. time, pace, and path).
• personalize professional  learning for educators (provide multiple entry points, focus on choice-based professional learning, matching the skill levels and content areas of the teachers).

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Micro-courses are in the SDCOE Canvas Learning Management System. You will receive an email with directions on how to access the micro-course immediately after registration.