Abstract
                                                        Poll Everywhere is an 
        Library one-shot sessions are                 interactive tool that allows 
       the only time most students will              librarians to involve student 
        receive formal IL instruction.              participation and input during 
          Librarians are faced with                the instruction session. It helps 
         limited class time to provide               promote active learning and 
       guidance to students and teach               provides many ways to do so. 
           research concepts. It is                     Librarians can use Poll 
       important to make sure student               Everywhere to create a lesson 
       learning outcomes are met but                  plan, incorporate it into an 
        it is just as imperative to keep           established lesson, begin a class 
       students engaged and involved                discussion, or revolve a lesson 
                in the lesson.                      around one of its many polling 
                                                               options. 
                        • Web based audience response system (ARS); 
                         provides live polling
                        • Company created in 2007 by first year MIT 
                         student and two co-creators; worked for a 
     Beginning           consulting firm
                        • 2008: Product launch; Presenters must use PC or 
                         laptop only to design and manage polls; Audience 
      to Now…            responds via mobile device, Twitter & company 
                         website 
                        • 2010: Mobile Messenger & PE partnership
                        • 2012: Mobile app launched; Presenters now 
                         manage polls using any device (except kindle fire)
                        • 2013: Images feature and poll added
                        • 2015: Embedding capabilities
                        • 2016: Self-paced surveys & ranking polls
                        • 2017: Audience participation dashboard 
                         redesigned
                      • Versions – free & premium
                       • Higher Ed plans
                       • K-12
                       • Business & non-profit
                      • 5 basic response types; 23 polling varieties  
                      • Audience responds via text or web
       About
                      • Insert active & inactive slide into 
                       PowerPoint, Google Slides; embed into blogs 
                       or webpages
                      • Polls nationally & internationally
                       • Distance learning programs
                       • Online only classes
                      • Ability to customizing, reports, register 
                       participants, LMS synching
                      • Download response history, screenshot
            Examples
                                                  Example: Word 
                                                  Cloud  Poll
                                                  For: Library 
                                                  instruction class
                                                  Purpose: 
                                                  Encouraged 
                                                  students to 
                                                  identify and 
                                                  visualize terms 
                                                  related to the 
                                                  class topic. 
                                                  These terms 
                                                  were used in a 
                                                  keyword search 
                                                  exercise.