Survey Blog Posting - Deadline: 12/5 1 pm

Post your opinion on the appropriateness of the use of the Tablet PC in the survey project in the blog http://pacetablet.blogspot.com/ (300 words). Do not post your answer as a reply but as a real posting with your first names, the 2 first letters of your last names and the word "survey" as the title.

In particular you will answer the following questions:

• Do you think that it is different to design/write a survey to be administered using the tablet PC rather than on paper - one paper survey per person or one paper survey for all the surveyed people?
• Did you use the format of the questions (check boxes, radio buttons...) that were provided in the survey project statement ? Why?
• Describe how you administered the survey to your classmates during class time. Do you think that it is more comfortable to administer a survey using the tablet PC or paper?
• What are the advantages of the use of the tablet PC in designing, administering and summarizing the results of a survey?
• What is your perception of the appropriateness of the use of the tablet PC to administer surveys to facilitate the analysis of the survey?
• You probably were already surveyed on the street in New York City. Do you think that the tablet PC would a useful tool particularly for administering surveys on the street?

Tablet PC Post - James Uminowicz

Using the tablet PC for peer review was a new experience for me and everyone in my group. We all seemed to have mixed feelings on the new piece of technology. The peer review itself was helpful and let us find new ways to strengthen our essays that we hadn't thought of earlier. Editing on the tablet PC made a normally easy process a little more difficult. Having one tablet for every four to five people made it a boring experience for everyone but the annotator. The other group members would help occasionally but there is only so much you can do when you're not writing. The one thing I did like were the word annotations. It was helpful to have all the comments written right next to the mistakes so you didn't have to flip between the comments page and the essay. The journal notes weren't as helpful and were basically the same questions as the word annotations just in a different format. I think that if we were in smaller groups and only did the word annotations it would have been a better experience.

Peer Review

I am very interested to know what you liked best about the peer review we have been doing with the Tablet PC, so I have some questions for you:

What did you learn about your essay?

Do you think you helped another student with his or her essay? Explain or give an example.

Was it useful to be able to both write on the text with Annotations and then also to make clear notes in the Windows Journal Notes feature? Which did you like best?

What do you think Dr. Scharff and I could do to make this a better experience for you? i.e., could we ask other questions? Give an example. Fewer questions? Which could be cut? Was there too much repetition in the two activities of Annotation and Notes? Give an example. How could we solve that? What questions are the best to help you see where to revise your work?

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