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 * Authors:**
 * **Emilce Lisera**
 * **Lorena Juárez**
 * **Georgina Pallero**


 * Editor:**
 * **Maria de los Angeles Gianotti**

PollDaddy.com is a website designed to create your own polls and surveys online and it is very useful for people who do not have enough time to plan, create, print out and ask people's opinions in order to get the results of a face-to-face survey, or simply do not know how to create one themselves. If you are interested in a certain topic and you want to know what other people think about it, you can embed your poll in your own blog, website or social network (such as MySpace, Hi5, Blogger, Freewebs and many more) for visitors to vote. By including these surveys in your website you are not only gathering information, but also making your web page more interactive, engaging your visitors to interact with you and other users. You can collect the data you need through unlimited polls and votes.

Anybody can create an account for free. However, free user accounts have restrictions; that is to say that they have a limited number of polls and votes. Even large corporations benefit from PollDaddy since they can upgrade to a professional account for a paid subscripion. Some of the advantages include an increase on the number of survey questions and responses that can be received each month. Both individual users and companies have the possibility to work on polls and surveys in an easier way, instead of creating them and interviewing people themselves.

Once you have your PollDaddy account, you are able to create your own polls and surveys by choosing your own design to fit your website's colour and theme. Questions and answers can be shown in any of the eleven available languages. You are also free to select whether to display the results or keep them private. If you decide to publish the results, you can choose how the readers will see them. Furthermore, you can include graphics, pictures and videos to make your poll more complete. Polls and surveys are created by using drop down boxes and multiple choice or single choice options. There is a new advanced survey editor available to create multi question and multi page surveys. There are unlimited number of polls each month as well as number of visitor votes per poll. After a certain number of answers or after a certain date, surveys are closed and the results are shown. Moreover, there is a block repeat votes, which enables people to vote more than once; this prevents the alteration of the results and makes the page more reliable. Finally, as soon as the visitors vote, the results of the survey are updated immediately; this way, the user can see how many people have shared their opinions.

**How can we use PollDaddy.com when it comes to teaching?**
As teachers, we can use this innovative tool in different ways: · By creating polls about activities we do in class and asking our students to give their opinion about them: they can vote which activities they like or not, what could be changed and what should remain the same, etc. This way, the students can feel they are part of the teaching-learning process and that their opinion matters.

· By asking our students to create their own polls, dealing either with the topics mentioned in class or even topics they are interested in. By doing this, the students will interact and could even discuss their differences in class.

· By surfing the web page and choosing their favourite polls, and saying why they have found them interesting to create a debate in class.

· By choosing ourselves a certain poll and discussing it. We can even create debates by dividing our class in groups and each group has to defend their positions.

Example Links
**1** ** Music Teachers Blog ** __[]__ On this web page, we have a clear example of a teacher who has used the surveys offered in "PollDaddy" in her lessons. She also gives details about the outcome of working with this tool.

__[]__ This website provides examples of how a teacher has used this useful tool to e ngage students and make them take decisions about their own studying place, among other things.
 * 2** ** Librarytechtalk **

__[]__ The contents of this page explain how a teacher has used PollDaddy.com to make tests for her students and make them feel more motivated by such a novelty. She has also used this tool to carry out an opinion survey among the school staff to gather information regarding a certain topic.
 * 3 **** HubPages **