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How did I get here? I came via Twitter actually. A tweet from Miguel Guhlin on online polling tools. Then I thought of how many of us are planning or already doing Professional Development activities for teachers and then considered the fact that understanding what teachers want to do and learn is one approach to doing good Professional Development. So I thought about doing online surveys to gauge interest on specific ideas. So, here you go: some tools for taking online polls and surveys.

I would probably use these ahead of the Professional Development workshop to help see what it is that people want and need to learn. I really don’t like to waste people’s time or give them things that they’ve already had before. These tools can help to get around those two issues. Hopefully they’ll help you. As they say,

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How do collect data via a survey or poll?

Conducting surveys and polls is great. When I need to conduct a survey, I try to use tools that give me control of the survey data (e.g. UCCASS or Moodle’s built-in survey feature). However, sometimes that level of security just is not needed.

The hardest part about surveys is not collecting the data. Rather, it is designing the surveys and then analyzing the data. Although it would be too much to hope for to simplify both ends of the process—the design of the survey and data analysis—what if the latter could be made easier?

Here are 10 alternative online poll/survey sites you can take advantage of, all at no-cost:

* Poll Daddy – http://www.polldaddy.com/
* Cool Web Toys – http://www.coolwebtoys.com/
* Vizu.com – http://vizu.com/
* Blogflux – http://www.blogflux.com/
* Quimble – http://quimble.com/
* SurveyMonkey – http://www.surveymonkey.com/
* Zoomerang – http://info.zoomerang.com/
* Survey Gizmo – http://www.surveygizmo.com/
* Ballot-Box – http://www.ballot-box.net/
* Easy Poll – http://www.easy-poll.com/

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