Tools/Urtak

Conversation powered by questions

Tool Description Urtak.com provides a way to solicit comments on blogs^(tool). The comment, described as ‘collaborative^(tool) polling^(tool)’ takes the form of questions which visitors rank as important or not. URTAK is said to offer a way to gain better information from your community, and to typically engage people more than a simple comment box underneath a blog post. You may choose to use such a tool to poll opinion on a science issue. But by allowing questions to be asked in response to questions, Urtak offers an approach to explore. ^(edit)Urtak.com provides a way to solicit comment on a blog⁽ⁱ⁾ post. The comment, described as ‘collaborative⁽ⁱ⁾ poll⁽ⁱ⁾ing’ takes the form of questions which visitors rank as important or not. URTAK is said to offer a way to gain better information from your community, and to typically engage people more than a simple comment box underneath a blog post.

Teaching Approach. Blogs offer a great space for collaborative^(ta) writing and language^(ta) development. Urtak adds to this by encouraging questioning^(ta) on blogs, to engage pupils in reasoning^(ta) together and collaborative dialogue^(ta). ^(edit)(appears above table)

Tool details
Title	Urtak
Topic	[[Topics/Polls|Polls]],  [[Topics/Blogs|Blogs]]
Licence / Cost / Platform	Web tool, available as a WordPress(i) plugin(i)
Subject / Categories	ToolInfo, Polls, Blogs, Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls
Teaching Ideas / Links	Consider using a polling tool to ask opinions around a science issue
Link	https://urtak.com/

Preview of a 'poll'