Friday, September 25, 2009

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Emerging Technology 1: Online Polls and Surveys

As a future guidance counselor, I am interested in collecting and analyzing information from students in order to obtain the first-hand knowledge needed to provide the most effective service to school children. I will utilize online surveys in order to gather this information in a confidential manner that will allow students to feel free to provide honest and in-depth feedback in regards to a variety of critical issues and topics. This will provide valuable insight in my development of guidance lessons, group therapy topics as well as what challenges and questions are most pressing in the mind of the students.

By utilizing an emerging technology such as Survey Monkey (found at SurveyMonkey.com), I can easily create, gather and analyze information on topics of my choice. I can create my surveys from scratch with a variety of options (such as multiple choice answers, comment sections, etc.) that allow me to truly develop a customized survey that will fit my needs. I can then copy code from the survey and place it on my blog so that all of my followers can be encouraged to take the survey. I can then view and analyze the results at my discretion.

Please check out and take my survey below on school bullying (try to reflect back to your K-12 days for this one).