We’re all feeling the pinch of the economy and we empathize with our educational users who far too often have the same old song sung to them – “We don’t have the budget for it.” The purse strings always seem to tighten the hardest around education before anything else.

We understand how difficult it is to be on a tight budget while trying to introduce new technology to your schools. So to help our educators convince the higher ups to invest in Poll Everywhere, we have compiled some resources that just might help you convince your principal or school board to open their budget to a tool that enriches the student body in a positive and effective way.  

The first is a great article about what students are looking for in their schools from their own perspective. One of the major obstacles they face, students say, in this increasingly mobile-device centric environment, is the restriction of cell phone usage in schools. The statistics show that a whopping 70% of high school parents are willing to spend the money in providing a mobile device if it’s to use in school for learning. Click below for the full article and some eye-opening statistics.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/what_do_kids_say_is_the_biggest_obstacle…

We love that the educational community is so looped into what’s innovative and successful as teaching tools. We rely on this positive feedback to help us create the tools that are in demand by teachers. Here are some of the great resources that have been created by other educators that may help you towards using Poll Everywhere at your school today:

A short page on a teacher’s experience with Poll Everywhere

http://geekterns.weebly.com/poll-everywhere.html

A slide presentation on how to use Poll Everywhere and it’s benefits.

http://www.slideshare.net/amysuesue/a-guide-to-poll-everywhere

An actual video of Poll Everywhere in action during an Earth Science class.

Many more videos about how to use Poll Everywhere created by our users and customers themselves:

http://www.google.com/search?q=poll+everywhere&tbo=p&tbm=vid&sour…

We’ve also been feature in the local news and those links can be found on our facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/polleverywhere  Like us!