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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 aTwitter 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.

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<title> </title><pubDate> </pubDate>

<description> </description>

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Fetch Feed

Output

•#ela2809q1 A•12 #ela2809q1 C•11 #ela2809q1 C•10 #ela2809q1 C•#ela2809q1 C•#ela2809q1 b•no.8 #ela2809q1 C•#ela2809q1 a•+5 more...

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RegEx

Output•A•C•C•C•C•B•C•A•+5 more...

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Unique

Output•A•C•B

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RegEx2

Output•A [4]•C [6]•B [3]

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Output

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Usage – Option 1Going to http://pipes.yahoo.com/mashe/twevs

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Usage – Option 2

Example for #ela2809q1 limited to 3 responses

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

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‘#’ is replaced by %23

limit=3q=%23ela2809q1

Limits the number of response bars

Example Question

Random question text with 3 optionsA.First option B.Second optionC.Third optionD.Etc

Tweet ‘#ela2809q1 A’ etcResult

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

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Example Output

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Benefits

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• Zero cost

• Multi device

• EVSPLUS

Benefits

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• Zero cost

• Multi device

• EVSPLUS

Benefits

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• Zero cost

• Multi device

• EVSPLUS

Issues

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• Very few users

• Anonymity

• Distraction

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Any questions?

More ideas on my blog - just Google ‘mashe’ or mhawksey

mhawksey@rsc-ne-scotland.ac.uk