AnswerGarden is a website that allows you to create a question and then embed it on a website or blog and allow people to answer it. What is really cool about this Web 2.0 tool is that when a student answers the question, their answer will appear in a box underneath the question. The more times that a like phrase or answer is used, the larger the answer will appear in the area below the question. This site could be used for quick feedback after an activity. Also, a really quick, few word answer could be used on this application. The downside is that you can only type 20-25 characters in your answer, which limits what kind of questions that you will use.
I could see AnswerGarden being used by educators to establish the knowledge level of a class on a certain topic. It could be used in a faculty meeting or professional development setting to break the ice in an interactive way. You can also export the tags that are created and put them in Wordle or Tagxedo to create a poster.
Below is an example of an AnswerGarden that I created for this class. I hope more people answer the question!
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