tricider.com

• If you would like to experience how easy it is to create a question to your students, check out the video below. 

• This next website also takes you step by step on how to create a question. It also gives a few great ideas on how to use this in your classroom. Lessons like asking what topic students would like to study next or creating a questionnaire for students (or colleagues) on a topic that needs to be reviewed for complete understanding. The site also gives an actual tricider for each example. 

http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/2011/06/crowdsourcing-knowledge-with-students.html


As this website lends itself to so many topics, there really aren't any specific ISTE Standards that I can pinpoint. It lends itself to Critical Thinking and Decision Making (Standard 4). Depending upon how it is used, it can also meet Communication and Collaboration Standard. 

A Social Voting Tool

tricider.com

I can really see myself using this website with my students, coworkers and classmates, and I am so excited! This website says that it is a social voting tool. How it works is a question is posted. It can then be shared with an audience who is able to share their thoughts on that topic. They can also respond to what others have said and even vote on comments or ideas that have been shared if they like or dislike.

The creators of this site aim to improve collaboration and I believe that they have achieved this. The teacher/questioner can easily see the results as can other participants. They call it 'crowdsourcing'. This term means that spectators contribute their thoughts allowing for a real feedback and idea sharing. I will give an example of how the creators used this tool in a later post. Stay tuned...

Educational Uses

This tool can be used in the classroom all the time. I can ask a question about what kind of prize my students want for good behavior. I could ask a question based upon the lesson that was taught that day. I even could use this as a way to spark a conversation for the staff at my school. If you ask a question of students, they give their response, other students are able to leave a comment on that previous posters comment. While planning to integrate the CCSS, I found that using tricider.com would be a great way to evaluate MANY Language Arts topics...

• predicting
• synonyms
• text features
• ones personal point of view
• chronology (sort of like a waterfall, each student can write the next event that happens)  

This tool is a really great way to collect ideas and thoughts from your audience. 

Here is what my first tricider looked like. It was aimed at asking a class partner for their opinion.

Here is another example of how I used Tricider with my Master's Class. I posted a question asking them to give an example of a telecollaborative project they has in mind. Here is a snapshot of what a few of them had to say.  

If you would like to take a look at the actual site that was created, click here to check it out for yourself.