Hi!
So last week we learned about wiki a collaborative
tool that can be used and accessed by anyone with internet access. I informed
you that this is a great educational tool because it encourages shared
knowledge and growth as well as creativity among students! I would say I hope
you guys have checked out a wiki, but you probably have already done so prior
to my blogs. If you haven’t ever checked a wiki out, then Go, what are you
waiting for. There is information waiting for you to read it, edit it and save
it.
Now onto this week’s weekly reflection blog. As you
can see I have posted a view blogs this week; one about a digital rights and
responsibility scenario and one about voicethread. Hopefully you have had the
chance to look at them, if not they are both a fun read and make you think bit.
This week reflection however will not be focusing on voicethread or the scenario
but rather this other tool called PollDaddy.
Poll-whaty?
The name might confuse you a bit but rest assured
know that this is a polling system whereby you can either create questions on
opinions that you wish to be answered or you can answer questions that wish to
know your opinion. This week in my adult education class my classmates and I
explored PollDaddy in order for my instructor to become more aware of our
opinions on digital rights and responsibility as well as netiquette. He used
this voting system to create an array of questions pertaining to the topic of
interest. Here would be an example of a question he would ask:
“
Which is the most important topic in digital rights and responsibilities?”
A) Cyber
bulling B)Privacy C)Citing sources D)other
We were then asked to select one of the above
possible answer and just like that my instructor would know which topic his
class thought to be the most important.
A great thing about this tool is you can create
polls for anything and everything. If you are an educator and were trying to
put people into groups based on their preferred topic, then you can use
PollDaddy to find out your students preference and place them in groups
accordingly. If you were a high school student in data analysis, you could create
a polling system and find out where students preferred to go to eat, if they
worked or not and so many more questions. Once individuals have completed this
survey, you can collect the information. It is possible (though I believe highly
unlikely) that Linda Starr (2000) in
her article “Tools for Teaching Cyber
Ethics” used PollDaddy to find out what students believed to be the most
common problem in school is regarding cyber ethics.
Though this tool is a great tool to get to know peoples
opinion on things, what they do, what they prefer, there is one problem with
this tool. The questions are closed ended. Meaning that you are not able to
interpret there answer. So going back to the above example, if a student chose
privacy as the most important topic, then you would not know why they thought
that.
PollDaddy
and my PLE
The only place that I would consider including
PollDaddy into my PLE would be under the questions part which is a subgroup of
the collaborating and socializing group. The reason why I would add it here is
because I am asking individuals questions about certain topics and trying to
gain more knowledge on their opinions.
My poll
Check out my poll I made and answer. Now it is not from
PollDaddy because it requires some sort of payment, but PollDaddy would be
similar to this! Have great day.
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