Survey | OMCA COLLECTIONS

1. Please describe yourself:

Student in grades K-6

Student in grades 7-12

College Student | Graduate Student

Artist | Designer

Educator

Researcher

Historian

Other

If other, please describe:

2. Which of the following best describes your race or ethnicity?:

If other, please describe:

3. If you live in the USA or Canada, please enter your zip code / postal code:

4. Where do you access the internet? (check all that apply):

I have access to an internet-enabled computer at my home

I have access to an internet-enabled computer at my work or school

I have access to an Internet-enabled computer in another place.

5. How often do you use the internet?:

6. How comfortable are you using the internet?:

7. Which of the following activities have you done on the internet? (Check all that apply):

Creating web pages or blogs

Creating an online lesson

Using Internet search tools like Google or Yahoo

Posting digital photos on the internet

Subscribing and reading online bulletin boards (e.g., list-servs)

Using social networking sites

Reading the news stories about topics of interest to me

Researching topics of my own choosing or that are assigned to me

Entertaining myself with shows, videos, music, etc.

8. What online resources do you use? (Check all that apply):

Search engines such as: Google, Yahoo

Social media sites such as: Facebook, Myspace, Flickr, Tumblr

Online collection sites such as: SFMOMA, Smithsonian, Europeana.eu, NYPL digital library

Academic research sites and archives such as: Getty ULAN/AAT, the Library of Congress onion prints and photographs collections

None of the above

9. How long did you spend looking at the Collections Web Site?:

10. Please rate how engaging each of the following elements of the site was to you:

	Very Interesting	Interesting	Neutral	Uninteresting	Very Uninteresting
Featured collections (e.g. Mathews, Costume, etc.)
Text describing featured collections
Text describing individual records
Image browsing tools
Using the term and maker indexes
Tag words

11. How likely would you share this site with your students, colleagues or friends? :

12. I found the level of explanation in the content of this website to be:

13. Please rate your agreement with each of the following statements about this site:

	Strongly Disagree	Disagree	Neutral	Agree	Strongly Agree
The site provided useful information about individual artifacts presented
The site provided useful information about the museum’s collections
The site was difficult to navigate
The site drew me in
The records were grouped in a way that made it easy to find what I was searching for
The search tools returned the results I was looking for

14. Please rate your agreement with each of the following statements about this site:

	Strongly Disagree	Disagree	Neutral	Agree	Strongly Agree
The site didn’t provide anything new for me about the cultural heritage of California.
I want to know more about California’s Art, History, and Natural Environment now that I visited the site.
I read through most of the written instructions
I’d like to return to the site and continue exploring it later.
The web site taught me about Californians' artistic, historical, and scientific achievements.
The additional notes and information associated with each record were useful for my understanding of the object.
The zoom features were helpful
The site loaded in a reasonable amount of time

15. How much do you feel you learned looking at the website?:

None

A little

A moderate amount

A great deal

16. If you answered “A great deal” to the previous question, please write down two things you learned from the site:

17. Please rate your comfort level with the following:

	Very uncomfortable	Slightly uncomfortable	Neutral	Slightly comfortable	Very comfortable
California Artworks
California History
California Ecology and Natural Sciences

18. If you were going to teach someone about California history, Science, or Art, would you use this website?:

Yes

No

If yes, how?:

If no, why not?:

19. How likely would you be to come to the Oakland Museum of California after visiting this site? :