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Survey: How Do You Use Professional Resources Online?
I am a(n):
Undergraduate student
TA
Adjunct
Instructor
Full-time professor
Other
Please take a moment to visit the following four sites, and compare their different formats and levels of interaction.
Workshop for Teaching with Technology
: A resource for instructors on how to use multimedia in the classroom, including tutorials on creating online syllabi and using web-based tools. This site does not provide any opportunity for submitting feedback or interacting.
Seeing & Writing Online Community
: An interactive instructor resource to accompany
Seeing & Writing 3
by Don and Christine McQuade. All the material from the print IM are available here with comments and posts from a community of instructors. To read comments or post your own ideas, you must use the free registration to create a profile with a unique password.
TechNotes
: A blog maintained by the Director of New Media at Bedford/St. Martin's that features posts pertaining to teaching writing in an online world, with comments by instructors from the field. Click on the “comment” word beneath the first post, and select “post a comment” to see how you can contribute your own response to the ideas in the blog.
PoynterOnline
: A site devoted to journalism where users can read and comment on current articles, resources, and industry news. Members have the added ability to create profiles, receive newsletters, sign up for seminars, and more.
Which site has the level of interaction that MOST suits you?
Workshop for Teaching with Technology
Seeing & Writing Online Community
TechNotes
PoynterOnline
Why did you find that one MOST appealing or useful?
Which site has the level of interaction that seems LEAST suited to your needs?
Workshop for Teaching with Technology
Seeing & Writing Online Community
TechNotes
PoynterOnline
Why did you find that one LEAST appealing or useful?
When you visit sites such as the ones above, which of the actions below are you likely to do?
(Check any action that you would consider doing, or have done on sites in the past).
Create a profile as a member of the site, possibly even including a photograph and background information.
Initiate your own thread by posting to the site yourself
Post to a forum discussion among several people
Upload a document or image to a collection or gallery
Comment on someone else’s post, even if it requires logging in
Comment on someone else’s post, but only if you can do so without logging in
Rate the usefulness of a post on a scale of 1-10
Email an interesting post to a friend or colleague
Sign up to receive new information via a listserv
Visit the site periodically to see what’s new, but never contribute personally
Do nothing other than read the content once and never return
Other
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