Monday, December 3, 2012

Tech Tool Evaluation

FIRST TOOL LINKhttp://beta.mural.ly/

3 Things I liked about these tech tools:
1.At the very beginning, to help you learn how to make a mural they show you a video. That helped me be sure what I was doing in this site.
2.In the mural you can add all sorts of files. Ex: Videos, images, gifs, etc..
3. It is your decision whether other people can see it, the whole world, make it private, or send invitations.

3 Things I would improve about the site:
1. When it comes to making murals, there are only a limited amount (3 or 4) types you can use. If I could change it, I would add more templates
2. When you look at other murals, there is not certain process which shows you all the files. The webpage only displays the mural as a whole.
3. The mural has a limited amount of space in where to put the files. I would make it an infinite board.

2 ways I could use the tool:

1. When it comes to publicity, people could use the mural to make posters online and share them to people who could be interested.
2. For explaining a process to make food, or play a game, or anything that requires multiple steps. One could use pictures and explaining thoroughly each step.


SECOND TOOL LINK:  https://www.mentimeter.com/   


3 Things I liked about these tech tools:
1.At the front of the page, they show you 3 easy steps on how to use this tool.
2. Also, if you don't understand the three steps at the bottom, you may watch a video.
3. Anyone who has the link may vote on the answers of your question and appears instantly in your online graph.


3 Things I would improve about the site:
1. There are only two themes to choose from when making the online graph.
2. In order for people to comment or vote on your question they have to be given a specific link. They can't get into the website and look at all available questions there are.
3. The website is only for making graphs, and, if you don't have many people who will know about your link then you won't be able to get good results. The website should help you do something based on the graphs, not only make a graph for you which you can make by your own.

2 ways I could use the tool:

1. When voting on a president for the Student Council or any organization, one may use this website to know who is the person who has more followers and is completely anonymous.
2. When you are trying to get someone out of power and show them which traits are the ones who people dislike the most, you could make a graph with anonymous votes.