Activity 8 - Polling and Data Gathering

Activity 8 - Polling and Data Gathering

Polleverywhere.com has been the most challenging tool for me to date. I got hung up on a few issues that I could not take my blinders off to see the solution. I had taken a 10 question parent form we ask each parent to fill out about their child and easily entered each question and then became stonewalled! I used the tool bar at the top and started all of the polls thinking that they would be linked together and magically appear as one. The tasks on the right hand side all appeared with a "stop" button appearing. Wow, I thought, that was easy! I then spent the next couple of days trying to figure out where the polls went and how to embed them into my blog.

Here is where the blinders held me up...I had read at the very beginning that each poll was a separate poll, but when I click on "My Polls" they all appeared. Here I was able to put a check mark in front each poll, therefore assuming they were all grouped together. For the next two days I worked through everything that appeared on the "My Polls" page, BUT the actual controls to the right, which appear when you scroll over the individual poll, read "edit", "copy", "stop" and "delete". Well, I did not want to edit, copy, stop or delete my individual polls, I want to do it as a group. MISTAKE...I ignored them. Finally, I thought, forget the group and just work on one poll. It was magic! I was able to embed a single poll into my blog and text in a response. My response appeared live on my blog. I am glad I was persistent, I am feel quite proud of myself.







Google Forms was much more intutitve for me to build a form in order to gather data.  I was able to use the same questions I had tried to group in my PollEveryWhere survey.  I will try using this form on Meet Your Teacher Night.