A Wild Icebreaker...

          I will soon be doing fieldwork in a second grade classroom, and I thought that doing an interactive "Getting to Know You" could be a great way to add technology to my fieldwork right from the beginning. During my college class last week, I created a survey on surveymonkey.com  in order to get to know my own classmates and it went very well. This week, I decided to create a new "Getting to Know You" survey that is more appropriate for second grade. 

          SurveyMonkey is a free and simple website that allows you to create a survey with short answer, essay, multiple choice, true/false, matching, checklist, rating, and ranking questions. You can also change the color of your template and add pictures to make your survey more visually appealing. 

          To begin creating a survey, you will first need to create an account with SurveyMonkey on the top right of the page. Creating your account is simple and should only take a couple of minutes. Also on the top right of the page, is 

 ,which you will click to begin creating your survey. Next, you want to make sure that you have a creative title that informs people of what your survey is about.

The next step is simply to choose the colors for your template here:

***You can upgrade your account for a small monthly fee if you would rather have more options for color templates and room for more questions.***


Finally, you can add up to ten questions, texts, and pictures with your basic account. 

One thing that I really like is that you can choose an "other" option for multiple choice questions. This allows the person taking the survey to type in their own answer if they do not like any of the choices provided. 

Here are some screenshots of the survey that I created for my 2nd graders.

          SurveyMonkey is also great in that it generates data after people answer your survey. You can then view this data in order to determine what percentage of students like the color yellow. SurveyMonkey is a wonderful way to have an interactive icebreaker, but can also be used to have students create their own surveys, create study questions, learn how to create charts and graphs, and much more. 

With technology, possibilities are endless. 
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