Brainstorming Together With Polling Amongst Answergarden

AnswerGarden is a really elementary tool for creating curt reply polls too displaying the answers every bit give-and-take clouds. It’s actually elementary too quick to role too tin live on used inwards the classroom or embedded into webpages, blogs or inwards online courses.

To create an AnswerGarden poll simply larn to http://answergarden.ch too click on the + sign at the top. Then yous tin either type inwards a topic to brainstorm or a question.

AnswerGarden poll responses are limited to either twenty or xl characters hence live on certain that the type of interrogation yous role doesn’t require a long complex answer. AnswerGarden plant best when alone a unmarried give-and-take reply is required.

Once yous guide maintain added your topic or interrogation yous tin simply click travel inwards too your poll volition live on ready. Then simply part the URL alongside the recipients.

You tin refine your poll too add together roughly safety to it if yous wish.

• There are a release of modes yous tin guide for your poll.
• You tin allow dissimilar users to repeat the same answer, inwards which instance the repeated give-and-take volition seem larger depending on the release of people who travel inwards the word, or yous tin allow each give-and-take to live on entered alone ane time.
• You tin laid the poll to live on moderated hence that words alone seem in ane lawsuit yous approve them.
• You tin add together a password for the poll too add together your electronic mail address to larn an admin link for the poll.
• You tin lock the poll hence that nobody tin add together to it, but this would commonly live on done in ane lawsuit the poll is complete.

Once the poll has been launched at that spot are a release of other squeamish features including an automatically generated QR code to brand the poll tardily to access for students on mobile phones.

 You tin also part the poll quite easily through a make of social media or larn an embed code to add together it to a webpage or blog. You tin fifty-fifty geo broadcast the poll through your local network hence that anyone tin discovery it on their electrochemical cell or laptop.

Once your students guide maintain completed the poll at that spot are a release of export options including export to Wordle, Tagxedo which allow yous to customise the give-and-take cloud too salve or edit the results. You tin also ship it to Twitter or salve it every bit a PNG.

AnswerGarden inwards the classroom

• You tin laid a topic too larn students to brainstorm vocabulary connected alongside that topic. Once all the words guide maintain been added yous tin inquire students to peer learn whatever they don’t know inwards pairs or pocket-size groups or enquiry the words inwards an online dictionary.
• Example: http://answergarden.ch/view/216363
• As a warmer yous could larn students to travel inwards all the verbs, nouns or adjectives they know that commencement alongside a item letter. You could fifty-fifty create 2 or 3 AnswerGardens alongside the same chore too give them to dissimilar groups too run into which grouping produces the most examples.
• Example: http://answergarden.ch/view/216365
• You could make a variation of the higher upwardly game past times getting students to brainstorm nouns that guide maintain specific qualities. For example, students could add together anything they tin intend of that has feet, or anything that tin fly, or anything that is green.
• Example: http://answergarden.ch/view/216364
• You could commencement alongside a route give-and-take too inquire your students to travel inwards or collect words that collocate alongside it. This doesn’t guide maintain to live on done inwards ane lesson but students could role a release of these AnswerGardens to collect collocations. They could make a similar affair alongside phrasal verbs using either a verb or a preposition inwards the question.
• Example: http://answergarden.ch/view/216366
• You could role AnswerGarden to larn your students to create anagrams from a route word. Again yous could guide maintain a dissimilar poll for each grup too brand this competitive.
• Example: http://answergarden.ch/view/216367
• You could role an AnswerGarden to detect out to a greater extent than nearly your students past times getting them to travel inwards things or people that they similar or don’t like, such every bit favourite sports or actors.
• Example:http://answergarden.ch/view/216368
• You could detect out how students experience nearly something past times getting them to travel inwards adjectives to limited their feelings nearly anything from politics to activity enquiry on specific classroom techniques yous use. Or they could simply travel inwards adjectives to clit how they are feeling. This is a proficient agency to guide maintain the temperature of the room.
• Example: http://answergarden.ch/view/216362
• You could role AnswerGarden to larn students to create upwardly one's heed betwixt 2 or 3 options. They simply type inwards the ane they desire too the most pop ane volition seem every bit the biggest word.
• Example: http://answergarden.ch/view/216369

Because AnswerGarden is hence elementary too quick to role too doesn’t require registration it would live on corking to larn students using it to create their ain pocket-size enquiry questionnaires. They could too hence part these inside the shape or through their social media networks too and hence introduce the responses inwards class.

I promise yous bask using AnswerGarden alongside your students. Please post whatever additional ideas or links to examples yous guide maintain created inwards the comments.

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Nik Peachey