The Results:
Well after leaving my survey open for over a week I got 54 responses. Thank you to everyone who participated. Over half of the participants have never used: Twitter, Flickr, Pinterest, Delicious, Diigo, chat programs, Blogs or Google Reader.
39.6% of participants check their Facebook 3-4 times a day, and 35.2% check their email 1-2 times a day.
83.3% of the participants that check Facebook use it for checking statuses and keeping in touch with friends.
44.4% said they had issues with the privacy policies regarding Facebook, and 44.4% said they do not have concerns. The other 11.2% did not care.
Facebook chat and Skype were used the most as instant messaging programs. Facebook with 70.4% usage and Skype with 42.6%.
Of the 11 people who blog, Google Blogger is most used by 7 people. Live Journal had 3 users, and Word Press had 1.
The program analyzed all the answers and tabulated the percentages for me. I can go through each page of the survey and view the results. I think this is a very viewer friendly format, and for students they can easily see where the majority of answers are assembled with bar graphs along side the percentages and number of people who answered.
One draw back with this system, is if students want to print their findings, they have to copy and paste their results into another document. The print option is only for paying customers. Also, if as a paying customer they can have graphs made to present their results clearly. These features would be very helpful for presentation purposes, but a teacher, school or district would have to be willing to front the money to pay for these features.
Classroom Application:
I can see several reasons to incorporate the website:
1) Creating questions for a purpose
2) Analyzing information
3) Applying gather data for a purpose
I can see students surveying school communities for determine where improvements could be made or for a Social Wellness project. Students could create a great learning experience and use the collected data to create a project to give back to their school.
From the teacher librarian standpoint, I think this could be a great tool to collect teacher feedback on the school library resource center (SLRC). Teachers could provide opinions on where it is strong, and where improvements could be made. All I have to do is make a survey and send it to the staff. SurveyMonkey collects the raw data. I can use it to help make the SLRC stranger and more effective for all its users.
Overall, I think SurveyMonkey would be great for student projects that deal with surveys where survey results need to be visible.
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