Journal

JOURNAL ENTRIES

I do not really know what I am supposed to be journalling about. I feel a bit lost on the final project. The book is good for far, actually interesting. I have read parts of it to my husband as well as a few friends who are hooked on their social networking sites. So far, I have not been able to get any of the friends to see the hidden dangers to them "out there".....
 * Journal entry 1/28/2011**

We are in newberg today with Scott, hoping to figure this class out.....home
 * Journal 2/5/11**

Talking to friends with social networking sites to get ideas for specific questions to ask for my "research" into motivations
 * Journal 2/7/11**

Completed final project proposal and uploaded to home page, finalizing questions for the survey. I am looking to use survey monkey to collect data.
 * 2/13/11**

Have most of my survey questions figured out, looking to use survey monkey but also checking out google surveys as an option
 * 2/15/11**

Finalizing my survey, hoping to have completed and link posted here for review and input from others before sending out for data collection
 * 2/19/11**

Rough draft of survey completed, requesting feed back to finalize and send out for data collection.
 * 2/20/11**

Snow days messed up my schedule, decided to spend some quality time with the kids playing an such, hard to get back on track after getting the blood back circulating in my feet! Taking recommendations on my my survey and sending it out this afternoon. Hoping for some quick responses to get my project up and moving.
 * 2/26/11**

Wrote to Julie and to Steph on their Wiki pages about their project proposals. Posting on Kristin's too.
 * 2/27/11**

Finalized and sent out my survey - hoping to get a lot of responses......

Getting some responses on the survey - a few people could not get the survey withthe email to work and had ot use the link. Had to explain to some to copy and paste the link if clicking it did not work, I guess I should have explained that better in my request.
 * 3/4/2010**

not getting as many responses as expected, resending survey to some and expanding poll group
 * 3/5/2010**

sent survey out to a few more groups, getting some more responses - found out that some people thought it was a prank or something since my email acct was stolen last summer and they did not think it was from me! Had to get that cleared up.
 * 3/8/10**

checked my responses, have 20 - results for motivated is pretty close but sample not that big. thinking of sending to work collegues now, did not really want to do that but may be worth it to get a few more responses. have not told that many people that I am even in this program so do not want to enlist a bunch of questions. so may think about that option for a few more days
 * 3/18**

decided not to send out survey to work folks, would rather just stay incognito there for now, the results, though the sample is not big, do show a trend and think that will work for the purposes of my 'study"
 * 3/20/10**

back from spring break, went to AZ to see my family, we also went to CA to disney, it was a great trip, good to get away for a week, though 2 would have been better! so nice to spend time with my family, we had a great time. Thought about school and my homework for classes a few times so that was a bummer, getting finished with homework for this class today and then will start on homework for other class later tonight... back to the grind!
 * 4/3/10**

hard week at work this week, there is usually so much paperwork to catch up one when we have some time off. finishing up my homework in the next day or so and getting started on my "verbal" discussion for my final project. Tabulating the data is not a big issue, discussing what it means is what I am looking at now. I may look at finding some other studies that may have been done to see if my result are similar and discuss those as well.
 * 4/8/11**

have heard from a few people about some articles they have read on social networking, one friend told me about one they read that said those without social networking sites may be doing themselves a disservice since they cannot comment on what others may be writing about them on these sites - sounds a bit farfetched, but maybe that applies to some that let their friends write stuff about them or maybe famous people - my friends are very aware I do not wnat to be on their sites, or at least my last name linked to it!
 * 4/12/2011**

started writing up an outline of things to say during my presentation and getting some articles together last night when BAM it hit me that I have not done my taxes yet, stopped homework and ran around house trying to find my tax paperwork and took forever to even find everything - so I did not even get started on those, and have soccer practices tonight - argh, going to have to work on homework Friday night and over weekend now, not thrilling...... found some articles on social networking and motivation but no real research, and what I found it from 2007 or 2008 - nothing recent, I guess since these networks have been around a while, and so many members, no one really cares about why folks become members anymore. A few to mention with my final, and some statistics so worthwhile to do the look for them.
 * 4/14/2011**
 * 4/19/2011**

completed my final last night, nice to be done, did learn some things and peaked my interest, but no time to be on the computer more than I am already! need to work on the last text entry this weekend.... I am looking forward to a month of no homework!
 * 4/22/11**