Technology in Evaluation

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Survey Monkey

I used Survey Monkey to create our surveys for our music video, website and digi-pak.

PROS:

• Easy  to learn how to use
• Can copy questions to different surveys
• Analyses results
• Able to spot trends in answers
• It is anonymous
• Were able to embed our music video and pictures of our album cover

CONS:

• Can only use 10 questions otherwise we would have to pay to upgrade.

We could email the link or put it in a social media post

Padlet

I used Padlet to create mind-maps for my blog

PROS:

• Cross media possibilities: can import photos, gifs and videos
• Simple to use, just click anywhere to start a new note and drag existing notes around
• Can embed my padlets in my blog or share them on social media

CONS:

• Limited in visual appearance can only move the notes around rather than seperate them out into different nodes like in Prezi

Prezi

I used prezis to make my blog more visually engaging as it is an online presentation tool with increased creative possibilities.

PROS:

• Visually interesting and engaging
• Can separate information out into different nodes
• Cross media possibilities as can support images and YouTube videos (symbiotic relationship
• Automatically saves your work
• You can edit the path the prezi goes on

CONS:

• Does not support gifs                                               
• Very time consuming

Tagul

I used Tagul to make an interactive word cloud

PROS:

• Easy to learn how to use
• Can chose a layout and colour scheme
• Words enlarge when you hover over them with the mouse

CONS:

• There was a html issue when embedding it in my blog which was overcome

Slides

I used Slides as an alternate to prezi and padlet.

PROS:

•  Easy to learn how to use
• ​Can be embedded in my blog
• Cross media possibilities of images and text
• Can copy a slide layout onto your next slide

CONS:

• More time-consuming than expected