Herb Heskeths Weblog

Hi,

Sorry about the late update, but I was really busy last week. Last week I spent Tuesday finding web-based survey alternatives to moodle survey, the reason for this was I had not received my password for the moodle survey function. I stumbled upon a few which I will include in my report, but some of the trials were too limiting, for example, survey monkey, as part of its trial functionality would only allow 10 replies back from participants. In my case 10 replies were not enough, so in the end I stumbled upon grapevinesurveys.com, which allowed 25 replies, and allowed an unlimited amount of written questions. On Wednesday I was given clearance to the moodle survey function, which after spending a couple of hours trying to get it to work, I gave up as it was overly complicated. I reverted back to grapevinesurveys, and added a username, and password for each participant.

On Thursday I completed the survey, and finished writing the survey e-mail message, this was sent on Friday to the 86 participants.

Today, I checked the progress of the survey, and found out that 9 participants had participated in the survey, I only need one more participant, and I would have fulfilled my estimate. I also had a project meeting with Mary today, and she was quite pleased with my progress, however she did mention that I might want to consider sending a reminder e-mail before the 30 day trial of the survey is up, so I can get more results. It was also decided that in the next two weeks I should have completed the literature review, and have done more work on the introduction, and background sections. Mary wants to see the progress of my report next Monday, being 22/09/08.

Thats all for now,

Herb