CEDO 540 Week Five

So we come to the ending of another class!!! The first portion of this weeks assignments was fairly interesting to work within our group. As a group we found that Google trends was not a program that we would use in our classroom given its current state. We all said that the program needs to provide more use flexibility so individuals can access various statistics on the graphs and have the ability to click on accompanying links. I think if Google made those changes, it would be beneficial.

For the second portion, Resource Assignment, we got to look at a variety of different statistical data. It was fun to look at the different websites and view the different information that was being generated as well the different ways that information was displayed. I enjoyed looking at the WINSS website because it is one that I have used for my PDP. This time, I look at the website from a statistical stand point and the information really popped out.

CEDO 540 Week Four

This week's assignments were pretty fun. I really liked looking into Hitwise and I think that the company has a gold mine at its hands. Tancer's company is great because of the vast amount of knowledge that can be generated. It would be nice if there was some sort of free company out there that provided information to educators on the different types of information relating to statistics on student search engines.

The other portion of the assignments that I really liked was the futuristic job portions. Jobs are going to continue to change dramatically over the coming years and it will be hard to determine to the different fields that are going to be adding new careers. There are statistics out there that kids growing up today will have 10-14 careers by the time they are in their 30's. That is insane. I don't know which avenue we are going to be going in future fields, but I know they will all predominately relate to technology with most manufacturing jobs being outsource to more lower paying countries. This will cause a huge backlog of workers and we are going to see a huge influx of elderly individuals heading back to the college ranks.

CEDO 540 Week Three

This week we worked as a group on creating a survey. The survey that we chose to do was on the recent health care survey that is encompassing our country. As a group we thought that choosing something that is hot in the press would get a good number of responses and we could ask some good, non-biased questions. Both were accurate and the information that we got was interesting. When investigating the numbers it is interesting to see that some individuals in society do not seem to be involved with or pay attention to politics that make changes to their lives.

When using Survey Monkey, the program made it really easy to take the survey and distribute to others. We took the survey link and posted it on a variety of social websites, including Facebook and Twitter to help get the survey out to a larger group of people. Even users that have minimal computer knowledge had no trouble accessing the links or completing the short survey. This is important because some users seemed overwhelmed when using these new technologies, but Survey Monkey makes it simple for all to take.