Cool App
Top Hat
Top Hat
Platform: all platforms
Price: Free for up to 30 students/class
Location: https://tophat.com
Top Hat combines the polling of Poll Everywhere, the quizzing of Socrative, and the presentation mark up of AirSketch all in one, easy to use application. It allows you to create "engaging lecture experiences." It isn't an app, per se, but allows you to use your students' mobile devices to follow the lecture, annotate on their own copy on their iPad, take surveys, and take quizzes.
Before your class you just add your presentations then create your polls and questions. During class you run the presentation from your iPad, mobile and with no cables. You can annotate on the presentation then trigger questions during the lecture. If your classes are less than 30 students it's completely free to use. That being said, if it's over 30 it's fairly expensive ($20 per student per semester).
Student Engagement and Top Hat
Uses
- delivering lectures
- delivering polls
- checking for understanding
- delivering quizzes
Final Thoughts
I don't really have any thoughts on this product yet. I've not used it extensively but it offers so many options that I think it's worth looking into.
Mendi Benigni
Instructional Technologist: School of Education, Health and Human Performance
College of Charleston
Email: benignim@cofc.edu
Website: blogs.cofc.edu/tlt
Location: 9 Liberty Street, Charleston, SC, United States
Phone: 843.953.6384
Twitter: @benignim