Week 8, Web Polls

Hi Readers,
This week I looked into web polls. I started with freepolls.com and created the little gadget on the right. Now you can grade our school. I like how you get to see others answers to the poll after you have voted. It was easy to create, and I changed the original poll after I had installed the gadget to see if it would change the poll without the copy/paste HTML thing. It worked just fine, all you have to do is edit the poll at the freepoll website. Pretty neat. Unfortunately you need to subscribe to create polls with more than one question, but it is cheap.
After doing this I thought this could really work well for my senior block project. There is a research aspect required, and a survey will fit the bill. I went to Respondus first and it seemed great, if you have an educational tool like blackboard. I don't have access, and it would be serve as a barrier to getting the surveys answered even if I could get access to the programs. So I then went to Quia, and it seems to be more of what I was looking for. It could be set up for classes, with assignments and quizes and such, though not to the level of control that Respondus offered. More important for my current needs though was that I could create a survey and email it to whomever I wanted. I think I may try to email it to JATC instructors working for the IUPAT. I created a survey and would appreciate anyone who would answer the questions, if you are not a JATC instructor just make up answers as I am just trying to see how well it works. If this works well it could go a long way towards answering the logistics question of a research survey.
I really am enjoying this class. I have learned more in this class that I am using everyday than in any I have taken in years.