Using Survey Monkey

For my distance learning class I designed a formative survey for my multiculural counseling class. You can find it at Click Here to take survey. It was a very simple survey consisting of only 4 questions. I focused primarily on Web design, the usefulness of the various readings and assignments and a self estimate of how much time they spend on line weekly for the class. I also included an open ended question for comments/suggestions for improvement. Survey monkey was realtively easy to use and free (which is always good). I distributed the survey to 15 students and got 12 responses which is a great return rate. The results suggested that the students found the course to be well organized. They seemed to like most of the many readings. The amount of time spent online was interesting to me. 16% responded 1-3 hours; 25% responded 4-5 hours; 33% responded 6-7; and 25% responded more than 7. I think it would be interesting to test the accuracy of that self report. I suspect it is an overestimate :-). Fewer people responded to the open ended question (5 of 12). There were really no suggestions for improvement. Most of the responses were simply positive comments.

Snag It Screen Capture

This is a screen capture that I created using Snag It software. I found it very easy to use. This website is The Cinema Guild which is a great resource for documentary, foreign, and independent films.

Camtasia Video Project

Well I'm trying to catch up on my work after being sick for a couple of weeks, traveling, and dealing with the beginning of summer school. I actually did this video a couple of weeks ago but didn't have the time nor energy to upload it. It is a video of how to compress photos on a PowerPoint presentation before uploading the presentation to WebCt. My students in my Multicultural Counseling class have a couple of PowerPoint presentations as assignments that can be very large due to the size of the photo files that they choose. So I made this video to show them how to compress them. It's very simple but most students were unaware of how to do it. So it is linked here if you care to watch.

How to Compress Photo Files

Camtasia

Well here is my Camtasia PowerPoint Presentation. It's linked but unfortunately there is no sound. I have sound on it before I upload it to the server so it must be something I've done during uploading. I'll investigate and get it working. Right now I have a cold that I've been struggling with all week so I'm going to leave it until later. UPDATE: Well now it's later and I've fixed the problem with the presentation. Actually, I'm not sure there was a problem....I might not have had the sound on when I tried to view it... :-) I'm going to blame it on the cold.
Who Am I? Camtasia video presentation