Conducting online survey's made easy by Survey Monkey

Interesting class reflection                                                                                                                                23 May 2017 LBS 708

About Survey Monkey:


Most of us who work or worked in libraries or any other public service department will know how vital is customer service. Once in a year, customer service must be measured by conducting surveys that will provide the public a chance to voice their satisfaction or dissatisfaction or even recommendations about the service provided to them.
For the first time I heard about a free software that can make your life easy when it comes to that crucial time of your work, that is Survey Monkey. In a nutshell, survey monkey  is a free online survey software and questionnaire tool. It provides programs that include date analysis, sample selection, bais elimination, and data representation tools. Below, is very brief steps on how to use this amazing software, I have also tried it yesterday:

Step 1: Sign up for your free account

Step 2: After drafting your survey questions, click where it say Create Survey

Step 3: Use the examples of survey or start your survey from scratch

Step 4: If you started from scratch, name your survey

Step 5: Now start typing your question in and answers. You can also select if you want your question to be multiple choice, open ended, or closed ended questions.


After completing your survey, you can send the link to the respondents via e-mail, easy like that.




Example:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/create/?sm=cMTwZpNEVBBVVXgqFCTzPIoybPOc4NTZhBMJMTVuKLY_3D

Sumbmission of Project 2: Promoting Young Adult Fiction using QR Codes

Purpose of selecting YA fiction

I used to be a Teenagers Librarian at Durbanville Library from June 2012 to January 2017. Fortunately, Durbanville community has a very strong culture of reading. Quite often both teens and teen parents will ask for books on specific genres, books intended for boys/girls only, books dealing with real life issues/sicknesses, looking for books written by new authors in the market, and so on. In the recent years, books that were turned or made it in movies started becoming very popular (for example, the Fault in our stars by John Green and the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins) are amongst the many of books who became very popular in Teen culture and they were ranked as one of the best movies in the 21^st Century.

I selected this topic with the purpose of assisting other Libraries in promoting popularity of Teens fiction and promoting reading within Teens. Reality is that teens don’t really like browsing through hundreds of books on the shelves, they have busy lives and little time to spend in libraries. Most public libraries under the City of Cape Town have WiFi installations which leave a possibility of Teens and parents finding using these QR codes easy and fast. Teens are also good in using mobile devices and QR codes are also becoming popular in South Africa.

 

Aim of the posters                                        

The reason for separating the QR codes and creating different posters for each was simply for easy access and organization of genres. Teens like simple information, bright but with less details. They see too much text and they run away (talking from experience), you want to catch their attention, then less is more. These codes will just be a quick guide of loaning them for more. There’s also a poster of where and how they can find these books/movies, they can decide to go to a library or order them online, no limitations.

Teen books that were made into movies

Books for your Teen boy or Teen brother maybe?

For your little sister or daughter........what Girls love to read

How about trying books by new authors on the market? New is good....

You, your sister/brother or daughter might be going through the same problems maybe??? help them to relate.....

Came across anything interesting?........go find them for real

Doodle or Google?

LBS 708 class of 9 May 2017:
                                             Scheduling your meetings online:

Doodle: scheduling made easy                             

This is a simplified and free method of  scheduling your meetings, appointments or events. You can use it to schedule meetings with your  colleagues, friends, customers, family, or with anyone. People invited are given a choice to select between the 3 proposed meeting times and they can also select if they are available, might attend or unavailable. What I like about Doodle is that anyone can use it, you don't have to create an account or have log-in access. So the next time you try to organize a group of friends or colleagues together, think of Doodle.


Start using Doodle today:
http://support.doodle.com/

Google calendar:  Is a time management online calendar

 provided by Google. It allows users to create and edit events, meetings, and appointments. Last week on LBS 708 some of us tried using this Google feature for the very first time. What I liked about it is that the minute you accept an invite, it sets a reminder on your computer or cellphone and you can choose if it must remind you of that meeting on the day or few days prior to the meeting. As I am used in using outlook calendar for work purposes, I have now decided to use Google calendar for my school work to remind  me of assignments due dates and so on. Now I have to see how successful this will be in organizing my life :-)

 Will you Doodle or will you Google?

Have you ever heard of ebooks or e-books??

Carrying your library in your pocket: Let's take a look at eBooks!


Yesterday in the ICTs in Libraries class we all had a look at eBooks.......but what puzzled me was, how many or how much does people know about eBooks?? I personally call it e-reading!!!


Just a brief definition of what is an eBook:


According to Macmillan Education South Africa: eBooks are books that are available in electronic format. There are two major formats in which you can purchase ebooks: PDF and ePub. Which one should you use? This depends on how you want to use the ebooks in your classrooms – and, of course, on which device you want to use it in your classrooms. http://www.macmillan.co.za/content/questions-about-ebooks/what-are-ebooks/28 [Accessed 26 April 2017].


What makes an eBook different from a print book? few interesting facts:

• Unlike a printed book, eBook is flexible, it can be manipulated in many ways (for example, highlighting or making notes)
• Print book cannot be altered or it will be physically damaged
• But the interesting fact is that, the format of both eBook and printed book is exactly the same (page numbers and content is the same)
• On the eBook, font size can be changed by the reader as well as line spacing or margins to suit his or her eyesight and brightness or darkness can be minimized or maximized :-)

The question is: do you prefer printed books or eBooks? 


Imagine this:






By: Google Images


Download free eBooks at:
http://bookboon.com/
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/lists.html
https://archive.org/details/Gutenberg (and there's more of these websites)


HAPPY E-READING :-)