Mentimeter let you engage and interact with your students in real time. It is an audience response system that gives you the opportunity to get instant feedback from your students.
Make your audience feel more involved and motivated by letting them contribute to your presentations. Mentimeter shows the result live while your participants are voting with the web based mobile polling app directly in their browser, making sure everyone is part of the presentation. Create your first poll here, https://www.mentimeter.com.
To embed Mentimeter page in Powerpoint, follow the steps below:
1.Launch PPT
2. At Insert tab, look for 'My Add-ins"
3. Locate Web Viewer
4. Click 'insert'
5. Add the web URL
Participants can input words to create a word cloud that will grow and expand as the audience submit their input. The word cloud is good to use when you do not already know what participants will vote for, and you want to emphasize the most popular words. It will look best when the answers are expected to be short - no more than a few words.
It is a good tool for collecting informal feedback from your students. You could use Mentimeter to ask students simple questions like, "do you feel ready for the quiz on Friday?". You can use that information to formulate your next lesson plan. Tools like Mentimeter are also good to use as exit ticket systems at the end of a class meeting.