It can be hectic as a teacher to meet with everyone you have to talk too but that all ends with the website called Doodle. This website allows you to quickly create an event and add times to it so that people can meet with you. As an educator this saves you time and energy so you can focus on content and making sure students have engaging activities to participate in. Doodle also allows you to poll students on what days may work best for them so you can try to manage time effectively in your classroom.
You first have to search in your web browser
Doodle in order to start creating meeting times. When you get there you should create a free account in order to create a Doodle. When you have an account you can click create Doodle in the top right corner. You then can type in a title for what you want your meeting to be about. You should add a location so the person meeting with you knows where to go as well as any comments you would like to add under the "note" option. When you hit continue, you will be taken to a calendar screen where you can add in what times you are available to meet with people. Once you pick the times that work for you, you can hit continue to be brought to the next screen. You will be brought to the "Poll Settings" page where you can adjust how your
Doodle runs. Some useful options here are limiting the number of votes to 1 so people can't vote for more than one thing. Also, limiting people to one single vote is good especially if you are trying to set up a meeting with a lot of people. This makes it so that once someone picks a time that works for them, they won't try to pick other ones as well, thus, monopolizing the poll. Lastly, keeping the poll hidden can be very important so that people's information is confidential. When you hit continue you will be brought to the final page where you get to type in your name and email so people know who you are. This will also allow people to contact you with any questions they may have. Now you have created your Doodle and you can select to invite people to it through sending them the link or emailing them the information to sign up for it.
Doodle can have many effective uses in the classroom if used correctly. The article
Doodles for Teachers and Students gives tons of examples in which I'm going to touch on, in the rest of this paragraph. An obvious way to use Doodle is to simply use it to setup meetings with students. You can create a poll with times that you are available to meet with students and send them the link so that they can decide which time works for them. This is great so you can give students feedback on assignments they may be working on.
This works the same with parents. You can email parents with a link to set up parent conferences. This will allow parents to quickly pick times that work for them and as they do it you can see the times they pick instead of sending a sheet home with times. By sending a sheet home with times it takes longer to hear back because the student may forget to show them the sheet or the student may forget to bring the signed sheet back with them to school. By having it on Doodle it takes out the middle person. You can create a poll with times for a field trip that students can go and vote on. This allows students to feel like they are in charge of what happens in their own classroom. This helps build a community where the teacher isn't seen as an authority figure but instead just a facilitator. Lastly, you can create a Doodle that helps pick groups in your classroom. You can create a free text poll with options like Group 1, 2, etc. so that students can pick the group they want to be in. Just make sure you set limits so the groups aren't too big.
As you can see Doodle has many options that make it very effective to use in your classroom. You can create meeting times with people, provide a way for class voting, and select groups with it all at the same time. It's free to use so there is no excuse not to give it a try. Believe me you won't regret it!
References
Doodle. (2018, January 31). Doodle for Teachers and Students. Retrieved November 23rd, 2018, from https://en.blog.doodle.com/2018/01/31/doodle-for-teachers-and-students/
Doodle logo [Online Image] Retrieved from https://doodle.com/
Doodle Poll Options [Online Image] Retrieved from https://hls.harvard.edu/dept/tlc/office-hour-options/doodle/
Parent Conference [Online Image] Retrieved from https://www.care.com/c/stories/3264/20-questions-to-ask-during-a-parent-teacher-c/
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