We spent today’s Social Studies classes with my two sections of Grade 9s coming up with and then choosing questions on what people know and understand about Canada and being Canadian. It was tough to keep 50 Grade 9s on track and distill their hundreds of questions down into only ten for our survey, but we did.

The next step was to go to Google Docs and set up a spreadsheet and a form with our questions. It took a little bit of tinkering (which I made sure I did a few days ago so I would know the project would actually work), but I got it all in there.

Going a bit further with Google, I then took that form to Google Sites where I’d set up a simple website (for free, of course) and embedded our form from Google Docs into our Google Site. That took a bit of figuring because the way to do it is not immediately obvious. It’s really simple once you know how, but, of course, you have to know how first.

If you’re a bit technically minded (the supergeek) you can add a subdomain to your Google Site. You can find our site at either http://sites.google.com/site/whatsacanadian/ or http://www.canada.ishere.info. Either address will work for you.

Now, hopefully, we can get hundreds of people to fill in our online survey. If you get the chance, please do that in the next few days. It would make the project a lot more interesting for the kids. Then we get to sit down and analyze the results. It should be interesting.