In my last post, I said I was going to work on collecting data and setting up a survey over the Christmas holidays. Well, I lied.....I couldn't wait for the Christmas holidays so I set one up on Friday (Dec 21st). I just had to create a survey before the 2 week break because I know I would have been miserable had I not.
Anyhooooo, it was 4:30 am. My husband was getting ready for work and I couldn't sleep anymore. I decided right there and then that I had to attempt this survey business before going to work. I went to PollDaddy as Gary had suggested and attempted to create a survey. In my haste, I created a poll. When I posted the link, it didn't work. Actually, it did work but the poll did not appear on my site. I wanted something on my site so I went back to PollDaddy and this time gave the survey a try.
Between testing the survey and tweaking things on the site I realize it is now 6:45. I'm still in my pjs. I have to get ready for work....but the survey is almost ready. My husband is long gone but I'm sure he's thinking that he left a 'nutso' behind who kept cheerfully squeaking at her computer "woohoo,who's your daddy POLLDADDY?" (HEY GARY...WHERE DO YOU COME UP WITH ALL THESE FUNNY NAMES...POLLDADDY, DELICIOUS, ETC...?)I'm just so excited that I figured out how this thing works that I am determined to finalize things before I get ready for work.
It's 7:10 and now I'm in a total panic....I have to be at work before 8:00 and it takes me more than 45 minutes to get ready. My kids are screaming at me from upstairs to get off the computer which I do reluctantly. I upload my website one last time and rush to get ready. I have no idea if the survey looks good. All I know is that it works. It's now 7:45....I finally leave for work.
Last day of school, the students are excited. My teaching partner (Tanis Veldhoen) is away today but she did the most amazing and smart thing the day before...SHE BOOKED THE COMPUTER LAB FOR THE ENTIRE DAY. Here was my perfect opportunity to tell the kids to fill out my survey and so they did. It's my first collection of data but not my last. I look forward to posting more surveys.
WHO'S YOUR DADDY? www.polldaddy.com
Cheers everyone!
Louise Jenkins
CDGMS
http://frenchaudio.net/ljenkins/Welcome.html
louise_jenkins@sd34.bc.ca
Anyhooooo, it was 4:30 am. My husband was getting ready for work and I couldn't sleep anymore. I decided right there and then that I had to attempt this survey business before going to work. I went to PollDaddy as Gary had suggested and attempted to create a survey. In my haste, I created a poll. When I posted the link, it didn't work. Actually, it did work but the poll did not appear on my site. I wanted something on my site so I went back to PollDaddy and this time gave the survey a try.
Between testing the survey and tweaking things on the site I realize it is now 6:45. I'm still in my pjs. I have to get ready for work....but the survey is almost ready. My husband is long gone but I'm sure he's thinking that he left a 'nutso' behind who kept cheerfully squeaking at her computer "woohoo,who's your daddy POLLDADDY?" (HEY GARY...WHERE DO YOU COME UP WITH ALL THESE FUNNY NAMES...POLLDADDY, DELICIOUS, ETC...?)I'm just so excited that I figured out how this thing works that I am determined to finalize things before I get ready for work.
It's 7:10 and now I'm in a total panic....I have to be at work before 8:00 and it takes me more than 45 minutes to get ready. My kids are screaming at me from upstairs to get off the computer which I do reluctantly. I upload my website one last time and rush to get ready. I have no idea if the survey looks good. All I know is that it works. It's now 7:45....I finally leave for work.
Last day of school, the students are excited. My teaching partner (Tanis Veldhoen) is away today but she did the most amazing and smart thing the day before...SHE BOOKED THE COMPUTER LAB FOR THE ENTIRE DAY. Here was my perfect opportunity to tell the kids to fill out my survey and so they did. It's my first collection of data but not my last. I look forward to posting more surveys.
WHO'S YOUR DADDY? www.polldaddy.com
Cheers everyone!
Louise Jenkins
CDGMS
http://frenchaudio.net/ljenkins/Welcome.html
louise_jenkins@sd34.bc.ca
3 comments:
Louise ... I had about the same excitement the first time I embedded a poll from Polldaddy ... it is so "cool" ... the survey tool is just as easy (just looks and "feels" a bit different).
Thanks for sharing your excitement. I look forward to seeing how you gather more results and use the data to make sense of what's happening in your class - and it was VERY smart to book the lab for the last day :-)
Have a great Christmas!
James
PS. Did you ever get it to appear on the website? If not, let us know and maybe we can help in some way.
Hi James,
Thank you for your reply. I ended up posting a few polls. For some reason the surveys don't appear on my site...only the link does. I didn't want my students and/or their parents to go to an external site in order to answer the survey therefore I opted to create polls instead.
Have a great Christmas too!
Louise
Hi Louise,
well, you caught my interest! I'm definitely going to check it out. Thanks, Louise.
Trish
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