I worked on the part one of the final project with Lisa Shea this week to collect data on social media usage. We collaborated on the development of the survey and decided that the best way to get feedback would be to reach out to our Facebook and Twitter networks. Once we completed the survey we both posted the link to Facebook and Lisa shared it on Twitter. The whole process felt a lot like fishing. We worked to rig our poles, put on some yummy bait and cast our lines into the sea. Lisa got the first bite within a matter of minutes. It was very exciting, but we had no idea that the survey was about to take off. Within the first half hour we had over 30 responses. We joked about how we got consumed in this process and did not want to leave the Google form page so we could count our responses as they came in. The interest tapered overnight, but within less than 48 hours we collected 84 responses. This is another prime example of the power of social media.
Our project summary and visual representations of the data we collected can be found on Lisa's blog.
I love your enthusiasm! I have had that same feeling when I was teaching online-- I was so eager to see what my students had posted that first few days of class. Wonder how we could think about making our students as excited to go to the class space (if it is virtual). Thanks for sharing your energy in this post. :)
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