TwEVS - An idea for using twitter as a student owned electronic voting system

Go to View > Header & Footer to edit September 30, 2009 | slide TwEVS – An idea for using twitter as a student owned electronic voting system Martin Hawksey e-Learning Advisor (Higher Education) http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.ac.uk/ RSCs – Stimulating and supporting innovation in learning

The idea It occurred to me that since I already have a Twitter backchannel going in many of my presentations, it might be possible to use Twitter to collect student votes … I thought you could ask a question and give a unique hashtag for each possible answer. TwEVS – An idea for using twitter as a student owned electronic voting system September 30, 2009 | slide

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Fetch Feed TwEVS – An idea for using twitter as a student owned electronic voting system September 30, 2009 | slide Output

#ela2809q1 A

12 #ela2809q1 C

11 #ela2809q1 C

10 #ela2809q1 C

#ela2809q1 C

#ela2809q1 b

no.8 #ela2809q1 C

#ela2809q1 a

+5 more...

RegEx Output

A

C

C

C

C

B

C

A

+5 more...

Unique Output

A

C

B

RegEx2 Output

A [4]

C [6]

B [3]

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Usage – Option 1

Going to http://pipes.yahoo.com/mashe/twevs

TwEVS – An idea for using twitter as a student owned electronic voting system September 30, 2009 | slide

Usage – Option 2

Example for #ela2809q1 limited to 3 responses

http://pipes.yahoo.com/mashe/twevs?&_render=rss& limit=3 & q=%23ela2809q1 &vm=r

TwEVS – An idea for using twitter as a student owned electronic voting system September 30, 2009 | slide ‘ #’ is replaced by %23 limit=3 q=%23ela2809q1 Limits the number of response bars

Example Question

Random question text with 3 options

First option

Second option

Third option

Etc

Tweet ‘#ela2809q1 A’ etc

Result

[http://pipes.yahoo.com/mashe/twevs?&_render=rss&limit=3&q=%23ela2809q1&vm=r]

Example Output TwEVS – An idea for using twitter as a student owned electronic voting system September 30, 2009 | slide

Benefits

Zero cost

Multi device

EVS PLUS

Benefits

Zero cost

Multi device

EVS PLUS

Benefits

Zero cost

Multi device

EVS PLUS

Issues

Very few users

Anonymity

Distraction

Any questions?

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TwEVS - An idea for using twitter as a student owned electronic voting system

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