Google+Sounding+Board

Topic Reviewed: User Created Content
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 * What do you understand about the trend itself?
 * 1) For Google I know that you can type in something in the search bar and learn or research something about what you typed. I also know about “blackle” and elgoog” (blackle saves energy and elgoog writes everything backwards) I know that Google Earth is part of Google and that you can look at the world with that. But there must be more to know that I don’t know about because that’s all I know.
 * 2)   Google is a very large search engine that you can type in a keyword and get images and/or websites to help you research. I know that there are other Google functions to help search topics such as Google news, Google images, Google PowerPoint, and Google documents. Other than that I am not sure about anything else about Google.
 * 3) I know that on holidays, or special events, they change the Google homepage to go along with the holiday or event that day. They have many different websites that are that have the same search engines, but the name is different. I think that that it just makes people more interested in the website.
 * 1) I understand that Google is very popular and people often use the phrase, “Google search it!” Users often refer to Google very commonly for reliable information.
 * Why do you think the trend is important for the future?
 * 1) I know that Google is a trend that a lot of people use because they don’t know too many other websites that you can type something in a search bar and get a ton of results. A lot of people like Google because I think it’s still sort of new and it’s easy. But I don’t really know anything else
 * 2)   I know people use Google because it’s extremely easy to use and you can usually find really good sites and images. Also it’s well organized because the results that match your document are first. That’s why lots of people use Google, so it is somewhat of a trend.
 * 3) I think it is important for the future because it has many known features that are capable of doing a lot of intelligent things that help our lives everyday.


 * If the actual report is written for adults, how could the project teams make the information easier for you to understand?
 * 1) I will guess that this is something that’s really popular and might be really helpful for a lot of people in the future but I don’t really know why Google will be important in the future.
 * 2) I think the trend is important for the future because as our technology grows and grows becoming more advanced people will need a very good search engine to research and pull info from. Because it is so fast it will supply all info needed and keep up with the modern times.
 * 3) I think it is important to say what you want to say with words that describe the feeling.
 * What would you expect to find out in each trend's section?


 * How will you decide if the project team has done a good job of their trend?

Criteria-based Feedback:

 * Criteria Descriptors || Student Reviewer Feedback ||
 * **Quality of Content** ||  ||
 * Does the content (writing) make sense? || -In this sentence you need to take out the “a” in the part where it says “Google is a finally developed in September 1998.” Does that make sense to you?

The use of the term "Google" reflects their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web, and [|Google] is a finally developed in September 1998 [1].

-I think that this Google chart where it told which keywords were typed in the most during the process of the election, was a FANTASTIC addition to your webpage. It really interested me when I saw it! -The background knowledge was great informative pieces that made me want to read more about Google’s developments.

-The query search word and visual representations was a great way to address different learning styles. ||


 * Can you identify any areas which need clarification? || -Could you explain your pictures a little more because when I read it I was confused. Especially the Google connection chart?????

People new to the topic need more information about the Google Connection Chart and the aspects within them. || [|jonsanvik] Guys i'm fluent in japanesse i think we should use Japanesse. Posted Oct 23, 2008 12:35 pm   Someone else replied: [|dylansemann] The communication was rude and not necessary. This is really bad communication. Everybody needs to agree and get along. Communication and collaboration between people in this project need to be good to work || . When you showed all of the things Google could do in a picture, I think you should make it bigger or clearer because it’s sort of hard to read. You showed a graph of environment related issues on here but it wasn’t with what you wrote about the environment. Maybe you want to move that graph down a bit. I hope this helps! || 
 * Pose three questions that arise from your reading || * I am curious and still unclear what a Google news aggregator is? The Wikipedia site didn’t offer an in-depth explanation? Is this different then an RSS feed?
 * Who creates the educational resources for Google Educators?
 *  You should research more about Google Page Creator because according to your link it is not longer being offered? What would you suggest Google users use instead in creating web pages within what Google offers? ||
 * **Communication** ||  ||
 * Look at the Discussion pages of the wiki pages - effective communication? ||  ||
 * Do they need more? ||  ||
 * Are they clear in their messages to each other? ||  ||
 * Is there a sense of negotiation and collaboration? ||  ||
 * **Collaboration** ||  ||
 * Does the work appear to be equally shared? || I have reviewed the discussions and although some people have started more than 1 discussion, I am not sure who actually completed the work. Some pictures ere done by different people and some content and graphs as well. I am not sure who shared the work or not, but it seems to me that the work is shared. ||
 * Does there appear to be any difficulties by one or more members of the team? || Yes there does. In one of the discussions they are debating weither to use British-English or American-English. Someone suggested this idea:
 * **Presentation - Layout and Design** ||  ||
 * Amount and relevance of graphics and media - comment on that || I really liked how you made sections for like Current News and things like that. I also liked the order you did them in and how you explained your background first. Over all I liked the website and I think you, for the most part, made the pictures go with what you were talking about. But here are a few recommendations for you. ||
 * Recommendations || Some parts of the website are unclear so maybe you want to put little pictures on the side that explain to kids what you are trying to say.

Summary of Feedback:
//What do you think are the three key facts from the project?// //Evaluate the accessibility and usability of the project (video, links, alt text, etc...)? Can you find the information easily? Is it formatted clearly?// //Is there anything that you would add? There may be important links or ideas that we have covered in class that you could add to this project.//