Blog Challenge #2: Ask a Question. Get an Answer. NOTE: Class
polls are a great way to get your kids thinking, and with web
tools like Google Forms, you can get them thinking nationally or
even globally. If anyone ever asks you why a teacher would want
a PLN (Professional Learning Network) here’s one thing you can
throw back at them. “Did you ever want to ask the world a
question?” Our third grade did. They wanted to know what the
world had for breakfast on April 1st, 2009. We created a Google
form then I sent the link out on Twitter saying, “Let’s show
this teacher the power of our newtork.” Twenty-four hours later
we had over 400 responses which I painstakingly added one by one
to a Google Map. (Read more about it: It’s All About the
Network) Last year while the Winter Olympics were in full swing,
our third grade wanted to know about your favorite winter
Olympic sport. This time we used a new tool called Map-A-List to
take the location data from the form to automatically generate a
map of the responses. (If