Monday May 3 - Online Poll and Survey Tools

Monday May 3

Web 2.0 Tools

Survey/Polling Tools




• Online Surveys and Polls - An Introduction• Professional Uses• Teacher Uses• Student Uses• Educational Outcomes• Online Polling and Survey Tools


A fundamental tenet of 21st Century Learning is that learning is enhanced when students are engaged via active learning strategies.


One of the most efficient ways to create active learning and assessment can be done with online survey and polling tools.


Gone are the days where you photocopy questions, distribute the forms, collect the forms and then spend hours tallying the results.


What was once relegated to pencil and paper can now be done easily online with free and easy to use online survey and polling tools.


These online tools let both teachers and students create multiple choice, matching, short answer, and other format questions.


Opinions can be gathered, votes can be collected, and results are able to be seen and shared virtually immediately.


Respondents are not restricted to a computer or to the classroom.


An increasing tool for polling are web-enabled cellular phones.


Professional Use These can be great tools to use with staff.

• Collect feedback about an event, activity or resource • Determine professional development needs


Professional Use These can be great tools to use with staff.

• Gauge interest in an upcoming event • Find out teacher expertise in different fields


Survey Students Collect information from your students to help you with your planning.

• Finding out about students’ interests • Asses prior knowledge for upcoming units of work


Survey Students Collect information from your students to help you with your planning.

• Evaluate a unit of work to determine its success or how it could be improved.


Students create their own surveys Students can also use online surveys. • Collect data for an assignment • Collect feedback on something they have created


Students create their own surveys Students can also use online surveys. • Students can analyze and reflect on their results by

interpreting a graphical representation.


Educational Outcomes When students create their own survey, they must have a good understanding of the content and the task in order to form the correct questions.


Educational Outcomes They must also decide on the information they want to collect and pose appropriate questions which will retrieve this information.


Educational Outcomes Students can gain an understanding of how to interpret graphs. This activity could be extended further by asking students to create their own graphs.


Educational Outcomes This is a great way for students to reflect on their learning and evaluate their achievements.


Online Polling and Survey Tools • Zoomerang http://www.zoomerang.com

• Polldaddy http://polldaddy.com

• ProProfs http://www.proprofs.com/polls

http://www.zoomerang.com/

http://polldaddy.com/

http://www.proprofs.com/polls

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Monday May 3 - Online Poll and Survey Tools