Jul

23

Choosing wonders

Filed Under Collaboration, General 

I recently came across the CBC’s list of the Seven Wonders of Canada.  Ignoring the fact that I’m not sure that CBC got it right (the Sleeping Giant is a “wonder”? Am I missing something?), I was intrigued by their public voting to get different sites chosen.

I wanted to try a simple poll with my students to see what topic they’d like for an essay question on their exam. The difficulty, of course, is that I don’t know how to set one up. Well, I did some quick searching and found MicroPoll. With it you can create a very simple, easy to use poll that’s really easy to insert into a website or blog. If you lack a website, their is a page (with a really awkward address) that you can direct your students to where the poll is also posted.

I haven’t used MicroPoll extensively, but this quick little trial went well and I’m fairly impressed. It was nice to use and very simple.

The thing I can’t figure out is that it’s free for the basic service, and, frankly, that gave me all the bells and whistles I could want. How are these guys going to make any money?

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