Creativity

Creativity
DecideAlready What does this tool do? Quoted from the website: It “ leverages the web to make it simple for organizations and groups to come to a decision about anything in a timely manner.” Basically, you write a question and ask people to answer it. You provide answer choices and ask them to choose their preference. Who is this tool for? Teachers—create the questions Students –answer the questions; students could also make questions to ask each other What will be created? A list of possible solutions to a question is created and listed. Participants vote on which solution they prefer. You can also create a set of criteria to evaluate each option, which is kind of cool. In the end, the site then counts the votes and gives you the percentages. Are the steps clearly laid out? Yes What should I know before I begin? You need to make an account and have your students make accounts What do I need to gather before I begin? Student emails for invitations What will my students accomplish using this tool? Not sure—it can gauge how students feel about a question, but so can many other tools out there that don’t require so much time to set up How will this Online tool help you? Your students? It does solicit student feedback, and having the option to create criteria that students need to use when they are making their choices is a neat function, but there seem to be other survey tools out there that are simpler to use, like googledocs Which curriculum links or SOL competencies could this Online Tool encourage? Practice with multiple choice questions; evaluating complex decisions What are the benefits (added value) to using this Online Tool? It aggregates data quickly What challenges will you face as you work with this Online Tool? Everyone has to be a participant to use the site, and be invited to answer the question you have posed. Also you are limited to the amount of invitations you can issue per month. It is very time consuming for not much reward. ** ** ** What questions do you have as you investigate this Online Tool?** why would someone use it? **