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What a engaging feature to have on a class website, wiki or blog. After seeing how quick and easy it was to create a survey on Survey Monkey, I believe surveys have great potential. Surveys would be a fun to engage your audience, check for understanding, extend a lesson or determine interests. It would be important to post the results or feedback, completing the circle, and providing the potential for further discussion.

For example, while doing a lesson on immigration, you could ask students what would make them leave the United States. You could ask what one thing they would miss the most. There could be a question about what they feel would be the hardest part of moving to a new country. It would be interesting to have the students take ownership of the survey question each day and generate their own ideas about what the survey question of the day should be (related to the classroom in some respect).