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Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:33:32 +0000

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By: Survey Prof

Survey Prof — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:21:52 +0000

Hi people, If you are a student and in need of a free survey tool, you should check out our site: Survey Prof. SurveyProf is a free survey tool which has been developed for students, which allows you to create an unlimited amount of surveys with unlimited questions, responses and running time. Good luck with your surveys!

By: Lindsey Harper

Lindsey Harper — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 01:22:45 +0000

Hi Larry – Thanks for including http://www.Swayable.com in your list!

Quick note that you can not only create Swayables online or on the iPhone (soon to be Android as well) but you can also embed them right in your blog or website just like you can with YouTube Videos.

Our engagement is averaging over 10% for embedded Swayables.

Happy Swaying!
Lindsey Harper
Founder, Swayable.com

By: David Gilmour

David Gilmour — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 15:37:00 +0000

For simple, attractive classroom surveys, e.g. to gather some real, relevant data in under 5 minutes for info handling, I’d recommend Google Forms. They’re available as part of Google’s public service, or as part of Google Apps for Education.

I find teachers like the ease of use, the simplicity, the attractive theme designs and the automatic data capture to a matching Google Spreadsheet, which avoids any need for exporting captured data, then importing it into a spreadsheet.

For the heavier duty surveys, I’d recommend Limesurvey (http://limesurvey.org). It’s free, but you do need a bit of web space to install it. It offers huge functionality, but is easy enough to use for relatively inexperienced teachers to make good use of it after a 10 minute intro. It’s “Quickstats” feature will automatically generate high-quality pdf reports of surveys, with charts if required. That’s proving a huge time-saver for us.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:13:30 +0000

I will also put in my plug for Google Forms. On my of my other favorites is http://www.kwiksurveys.com it has many features that I have not found in other Free Survey tools (ability to skip questions etc..)

Finally – its not a suvey site but you could use it this way and I feel it should be on your light somewhere is the http://www.mysignup.com/ I have not quite found anything like it (for FREE anyway) Its a bit of pain to set up for its free and actually I don’t mind paying $3 to remove the ads to I can cleanly embed on a web site.

My 2Cents..

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Thought-provoking Questions via Technology | Teacher Boot Camp — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:56:49 +0000

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By: Judi Wolf

Judi Wolf — Sat, 30 May 2009 22:04:25 +0000

Dear Larry,
Great and useful list as always. I do have a question. Have you seen any surveys/polls that i can take “live” For example, as I present a workahop, can I somehow “pollk” the group for answers to questions like Grade level, How many Computers in their class/lab and then get results by show of hands, record it as 6 for Answer #1 and 8 for Answer#2, etc. I would like to then show the results right after I recorded them. Any ideas?
Judi
techteachj@roadrunner.com

By: Russ Goerend

Russ Goerend — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:12:23 +0000

I’ve used http://www.polleverywhere.com with students as young as 4th grade. Fits most all of your criteria.

By: Paul Beaufait

Paul Beaufait — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:45:54 +0000

Thank you, Larry, for another great list of web app's! I was going to suggest Google Spreadsheets and forms for data collection with English as an additional language learners, too. Granted, there are significant technological challenges in producing spreadsheet-based surveys, including but not limited to browser, network, or system incompatibilities with Google updates. Though I've only tried For.reca.st on one system so far, your number one presents its own challenges, as well (Test driving Fo.reca.st, 2008.09.01) Nevertheless, if learners indeed need linguistic support, as they are familiarizing themselves with more and more tools to use with a single online account, Google settings offer displays in almost 50 linguistic and varietal flavours.

By: Abbey Keck

Abbey Keck — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:08:46 +0000

Hi, Larry~
We are glad you’ve discovered Vizu, and pleased that you were happy with our free Web Polls.

I wanted to specifically address your security concern. Vizu has created several mechanisms that restrict a user from voting more than once on a poll.

A site that regularly uses our polls, http://www.dealbreaker.com/ currently has a poll running just underneath its Top Stories feature. Please feel free to vote, refresh your page, or go to a different site, and then revisit, and you will see that only the results are shown and you may not vote multiple times.

I hope that helps to clear things up a bit. Please feel free to contact me with any questions.

All the best,
~Abbey