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|description= Urtak.com provides a way to solicit comments on {{ | |description= Urtak.com provides a way to solicit comments on {{tooltag|blogs}}. The comment, described as ‘{{tooltag|collaborative}} {{tooltag|poll}}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. 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. | ||
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Revision as of 08:57, 28 September 2012
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 comments on blogs(tool). The comment, described as ‘collaborative(tool) poll(tool)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. 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.
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)
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| Title | Urtak - a tool for voting and discussion |
| Topic | [[Topics/Polls|Polls]], [[Topics/Blogs|Blogs]] |
| Licence / Cost / Platform | |
| Subject / Categories | ToolInfo, Polls, Blogs, Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls |
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