03_AssessmentFeedback


 * 03_ Assessment and Feedback Page **

This page contains links and content for assessment during and after the workshop. We will also add a series of reflections based on the results from the self-assessment quiz that many of you completed prior to the workshop. Information from that quiz has helped us shape the way in which we will present content and work together on January 6 and 7, 2012.


 * Self-assessment Quiz Data Reflections **

This space will contain the results of the self-assessment quiz. To take the quiz **click here **by January 10, 2012. (you can take the quiz after the date indicated above - it is just that results up to that date will help the workshop team design the workshop to meet the needs identified by the data).


 * Self-assessment Quiz Data Reflections **

This space will contain the results of the self-assessment quiz.

// 8 of you in this session have completed the anonymous self-assessment quiz that we proposed you take before the session. We thank all who completed it - we have heard that some of you found it quite funny and completed it in a relaxed fashion. The questions in the survey have assisted Karen and me to tailor our instruction based on the data results of the quiz, so that we do not talk over your heads, and let things go by unanswered or neglected. It is our desire to create a space that allows for questions to be asked, as your questions will assist us with the final information and content we will place in our project website and products. Thanks for your input. //

// We have outlined below a summary of the results and what we read into these results. // // **Question 1** - seems to have us all on the same pace! Great to know! // We will talk a lot about browsers during our sessions. The tools we use work best with Chrome, Safari and Firefox (not as well with IE 7 unfortunately). It is important to feel at ease with the concept of browsers, which is something that many feel they already know. To learn more about browsers, feel free to check this link: @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser



URL - this question spoke to the fact that the URL is really the unique address of a website. The address of a website can tell us a lot about the website itself. The type of website (the domain it is hosted under - .com, .net, .ca, .org), the placement of the information at the current page (the "/" are used to indicate the folder structure of the website. The more slashes in the URL, the deeper the content is placed inside that website). The URL can also tell us if the information was found as a result of a search or a browse and if that same URL will work once we cut and paste it into a new place as a link. (BTW - there was no real wrong answer to this question - just that letter A was more accurate that the other proposed).
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Great responses. We will use tabs often during the session.
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The tab is the device in a browser that lets you open more than one website within the same browser window. So, technically the window is the actual "browser space" that you open when you click on your browser icon, and within that window you can have many tabs. You toggle between tabs to bring the desired website in the front.
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**Question 5)** Yes...It depends. If your window only has one tab open, once you close that tab you close the whole window (your browser). If your window has several tabs open at once, closing one tab will not cause the window to close. However, you can close the browser window very easily, and many browsers will ask you if you are sure that you want to close all tabs at once. Then you decide.

**Question 6)** Yes, the deep link is usually a very long URL - however, the adjective speaks to the fact that the link directs you to any page in the website that is NOT the home page. This is important because when websites are restructured and changes occur, the only page of the website that remains the same is the home page, which is the address and domain name of the website.



**Question 7)** - The concept of radio buttons and checkboxes is very helpful for quizzes and polls (we will explore Quizlet and Flisti for these). It is more a technical term than anything else and one you can use to Impress your students. Radio buttons work in either/or functions. When you click on one the other choice is automatically removed. Checkboxes allow for a number of responses. And they both usually look exactly the same - a radio button is closer to a round-shaped object (a dot or a circle) while checkboxes are square. These communicate to the user (students in your case) what types of choices they are expected to make.



**Question 8)** - We will talk a lot about "widgets" during our session. The idea of widgets is that they are pieces of code that allow users, in very simple ways, to manipulate data online. The tool "wordle" ( www.wordle.net ) operates with a widget. The code in Wordle is an algorithm that counts the frequency of use of the words in the text copied inside a blank field, and creates them as different colours and different sizes based on that frequency. The higher the number of times that word is used the bigger the word will appear in wordle.



**Question 9** - This was interesting. Yes: The "Cloud" can live both internally on an intranet server as well as externally. Nowadays people refer to the "cloud" as the online folder where they store and access all their files, which is often hosted in many different parts of the world.



**Question 10)** - This is one of the staples of Web 2.0 technologies. RSS feeds (real Simple Syndications) allow the content to come to the user, instead of the user searching for the content. They come in handy when you begin to use online sources of information. The tool we propose that uses these the most is Feedzilla ( www.Feedzilla.com )



**Question 11)** Yes: Java is a script language used to write code online. The script usually allows for certain things to happen. You may have noticed how sometimes your computer asks for a Java update. It is important to update your Java as often as requested, as newer functions on some websites only work with the latest back-end language. You do not need to know much more than this (really) - but if you are curious the wikipedia page can help you have fun with its technical rules (see @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript )

**Question 12)** No problem on understanding how to minimize, enlarge or close a window. Yes!

**Question 13)** No problem on understanding Browsers. Which one is your favourite?

Experience and feeling overwhelmed seem the biggest reasons for not using technology!







These results let us know that we can proceed fairly well according to our plans. Thank you so much for taking the time to complete these. We hope the sessions will prove successful and very helpful for your own goals.

(Links below will become live at the end of the workshop)


 * Day One Exit Survey Link - link to the day one survey **


 * **Day Two - Final Workshop Exit Survey Link - link to the end of the workshop survey** **

**Register for ongoing support and contact link** (this link allows you to remain in contact with us up to March 2012), to share ideas and experiences gained by trying out the tools from the workshops and the website.