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Task 12: Creating a ‘social’ poll using Urtak
In this task you are going to create an ‘social’ online poll using a simple web based tool calledUrtak.Once you have created an account you can make as many polls or surveys as you want andget your students to answer them online. The poll is ‘social’ because the resulting informationis shared with anyone who answers the questions, so you can see percentages of the peoplewho give the same answer as you, and because anyone who registers on the site can alsoadd their own questions to the poll (You can approve or disapprove them). This is a very versatile tool for creating online learning materials. Here are some examples Ihave created using this tool.•I created this poll for an online course with a group of teachers. The idea was to get them tothink about and compare their understanding of why their students were studying English.Feel free to try the poll and add your own answers:http://urtak.com/u/1760 • This one was created to test what students knew about ‘1st Conditional’ structures. Youcan compare your understanding too if you wish:http://urtak.com/u/1762  Now you see how these work, you can start creating an error quiz for your students. To dothis you will need 5 - 10 sentences which contain errors that your students make. Thesecould be spelling, grammar, vocabulary or punctuation errors or you could focus on commonerrors connected with a specific structure. You’ll also need a few correct sentences to add (Iwould suggest that you mix 5 incorrect sentences with 5 correct ones). The next step is to go to:http://urtak.com / and click on ‘
Sign Up
’.
Nik Peachey | Learning Technology Consultant, Writer, Trainer Teacher Development:http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/ ©NikPeachey@mac.com
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 You’ll then need to create a password and enter an email address. Then click on ‘
Sign Up
’.Once you have done this you are ready to create your first poll. Just click on ‘
Create anUrtak
’ at the top of the page. You will then be able to give your poll a name or type in a question. I have used the question“
Which of these sentences are correct?
” in the name field. You then add one of yoursentences in the field below and click on ‘
 Ask
’. The sentence should then appearunderneath.Once you have added all your example sentences, click on ‘
Create’
and your Urtak pollshould be created. You can then add a description.
Nik Peachey | Learning Technology Consultant, Writer, Trainer Teacher Development:http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/ ©NikPeachey@mac.com
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Now you can decide how you want to share the poll with your students. You can copy theembed code and paste it into a web page or use on of the other services listed below it.Or, the easiest way is to give the URL to your students. Then they simply vote ‘
 Yes
’ , ‘
No
’ or ‘
Don’t Care
’ and then they can see how otherstudents voted. The results are shown after they vote. This won’t tell them the answers of course butcomparing their answer to other students’ answers, make them think more carefully andreflect on their answers, especially if their answer is different to the majority.
Nik Peachey | Learning Technology Consultant, Writer, Trainer Teacher Development:http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/ ©NikPeachey@mac.com
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