Surveys: Getting to know your students

I've heard from a teacher, some time ago, that the only songs he/she would bring to the classroom were the ones he/she liked, because he/she was the one that would have to listen to it over and over again. Ok, I agree that sometimes it's really boring to listen to a song you don't like many times. But I don't think we should simply ignore our students preferences. Let's just remember that motivation is a clue word when talking about learning.

Well, I do as I say. Because of that, every time I start with a new class, at the first class, I ask my students to fill in a form, answering about several things they prefer. The only problem I've always had was how to check the results after that. I used to spend so much time putting the results into graphics using MS Word (I'm not a good fan of MS Excel, so I used to suffer a lot!!).

But today, I discovered paradise!! I discovered Obsurvey!! This is an online tool that you can use to create your surveys, from basic ones, to bigger ones, like mine!! And after the survey is done, and your students have answered that, the website collects the responses and gives you the graphics just the way you want them: in the shapes you want, you can save, print, publish, whatever you want!!

I got so excited that I didn't even saw the time passing while I was transforming my old paper survey into an online survey!!

Please, take a look at that!! Feel free to answer the survey, to suggest other questions or simply add a comment about that!!