Everybody's+Got+An+Opinion

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==Everyone likes to be consulted, to offer his/her two cents on what his/she knows, or the way it "should be" - no one more than kids who often feel like they have no voice or control in what or how they learn. ==

Voice is powerful tool. Surveys are versatile tools to include  all students, give them voice  and build engagement .

Surveys can be used to  excite interest in a new topic,   to activate prior knowledge,  to register response,  to make a class decision,   to request partners,   select book choices,   <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">even to check understanding   <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> review or test information.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Go to the link below to the Survey Monkey website.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Survey Monkey] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Survey Monkey] tutorial Google Forms [|Doodle - a scheduling tool]

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> First, take the tutorial ( link at the bottom of the home page). <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Second, create a survey to use in your classroom in the first weeks of school. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Third, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">blog about the ways using surveys might deepen students' connections/investment in material. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In what ways might you use surveys as formative assessments?