polleverywhere

A coworker at ODE sent me a link to this tool www.polleverywhere.com. It works like free clickers for the classroom. Students can text or use twitter to respond to questions as their answers appear on a projector screen before them. As far as qualitative research, or qualitative researchers, are concerned, I could see some potential for interesting conference presentations or data collection in a classroom or a small group interview, but as I know qualitative researchers are endlessly creative, I am sure they will be able to think of other uses for this tool.

One caveat is that the tool is only free for 30 users, and you must pay for anything beyond that.