8.1+Task+2

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Today you will learn:
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 * what a survey is
 * who your target audience is
 * how to structure a set of questions to get appropriate feedback

= Task Two instructions: = ====  1. Visit [|Quizopolis] to see a selection of fun surveys. Visit [|Census at School] to take see what you know about census surveys and then visit [|Pensioner Online] to check out good survey layout with a range of styles of questions.  2. With your teacher, brainstorm on the board some useful questions that you could ask your audience that will help you decide what things you should include in your public information system. **Remember**, you need to know what things people expect to see in a natural history museum, the sort of layout your information system should take, what people will want to use it for, what the interface should look like (whether you should have clickable buttons or clickable icons, museum map, information on items in the giftshop, etc.), and how much and what type of information people want to be able to view.  3. Thinking about the survey websites that you have just viewed, decide on whether you are going to have open or closed questions, short answer questions, multiple choice answers, check/tick boxes, radio buttons, or a mixture of all of them. **Next lesson**, you will collate this information and put it into a spreadsheet and produce a graph so you need to think about how you are going to count and measure the responses.  4. Open a dtp or word processing application. Compose 10-14 questions and number them. Remember to leave a space for answers. Use the forms toolbar (View>Toolbars>Forms) to insert check boxes and radio buttons into your document, or use small text boxes in the dtp application.  Print off ten copies of your survey.  5. **Homework**: Give your survey to 10 friends and ask them to complete. Try to get a wide range of people to answer the survey. Bring their completed responses to your next ICT lesson.    ====
 * decide who your audience is
 * produce a survey with sufficient questions so that you can get a clear idea on what departments to have in your museum