Polls & Surveys

ECET2 – Technology as a Powerful Enabler of Teacher Inquiry, Collaboration, and Professional Development

April 7, 2013

The Gates Foundation’s ‘Elevating Teaching’ Conference Yields Inspiring Takeaways, Connections, and More Recently I had the honor and privilege of attending ECET2: The Elevating and Celebrating Effective Teachers and Teaching Conference, sponsored by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Since the conference, I’ve been thinking a lot about its implications. The conference was so much [...]

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15 Favorite iPad Apps As Selected By Teachers

March 25, 2012

Out of 125 responses from teachers indicating their top 3 apps, these are the apps that were listed most often. Over the last few weeks, we ran a survey asking teachers to tell us about two or three of their favorite iPad apps that they use in an education-related context. Today we share the apps [...]

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What Are Your Favorite Education Related iPad Apps?

February 29, 2012

Help us update our list and win a $25 iTunes gift card! Almost a year ago we published the article, “10 Excellent iPad Apps for Teachers”, and it’s been the most popular post on the site ever since. However, with the ever expanding availability of iPad apps and the growing number of experienced educators using [...]

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Most Impactful Education Technologies (Survey Results, Part Two)

November 16, 2011

Further examining educator’s technological preferences and commentary. In Sunday’s post we examined some of the results from last month’s survey, which looked to gather educator’s insights into the question, “Which technologies can most impact student learning?” Today we wrap this up by looking at some additional data from the survey. Top Votes for “Second Most” and “Third Most” [...]

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The Education Technologies That Educators Believe Can Have The Biggest Impact On Student Learning (Survey Results)

November 13, 2011

Survey results indicate several specific technologies as those that we should be investing in and focusing on if we want to effectively leverage technology in education. Tough economic times have more people questioning what we are getting out of technology spending in our schools. Unfortunately, results are often being sought in overly broad terms, like improved grades and graduation [...]

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Which Education Technologies Do Educators Think Can Have The Biggest Impact (Survey)?

October 16, 2011

A different approach to the question of whether or not technology makes a difference in student learning and outcomes. We want to know what YOU think – if you are a teacher, or work closely with teachers in a supporting role, please take a few moments to answer these 6 brief questions about which technologies, or technologically-related [...]

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Beyond Student Response Systems – The Next Level Of Audience Participation

September 28, 2011

With all the attention that SRSs and ‘clickers’ get these days, I thought this advanced approach was interesting and worth sharing. Thanks to the folks at IML for this guest post. - KW Whether you’re organizing a class, a conference, or even a television show, wider audience participation can greatly increase the depth, value and inclusivity of your [...]

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The Definitive Source for Information About IT Issues Effecting Higher Education

August 10, 2011

The Campus Computing Project. Several weeks ago, it was my sincere pleasure to attend a dinner hosted Casey Green, the man behind the Campus Computing Project. For those who may not be familiar with this 20+ year old effort, it is an exemplary data collection, analysis, and reporting project focused on the use of IT in Higher Ed. [...]

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Survey Results – Professional Development Is Top Education Technology Wish List Item

January 9, 2011

Survey provides a clear mandate: teachers want more professional development focused on education technology, and more exposure to tech for the classroom. The brief, informal survey that I ran here last week provided insight into what educators are looking from education technology in 2011. The standout response was “Professional Development focused on using technology”. Along the same lines, “More exposure [...]

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Polldaddy and other polling and survey tools

June 3, 2010

I’ve been using Polldaddy to integrate brief polls into this blog, and some other free tools for similar purposes. I just added a new Poll on the site here, to get a sense of what types of posts are favored by readers (this has long since been taken down – KW 9/8/12). I’ve had a [...]

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