Project+ideas+for+Spring

What project ideas would you suggest for Spring 2010? Should I just pick a problem now that you guys suggest? Let students vote again? Did using the wiki help us at all in the project? Did the googledocs help in collecting the data?

Any ideas you suggest will be helpful. I think the project is worthwhile but I'm sure we can always improve upon the idea. (You should have seen its first iteration years ago; we've come a long way!)

Thanks, Dr B

I think it is a good idea to let the students vote again. It allows them to understand the process and how everything comes together when they go through each of the steps as we did. I found the wiki to be useful for the project as well as for class communication. This is my first experience using a wiki, but I would definitely use one in my future classroom. I also liked using Googledocs. I thought it was an efficient way to collect everyone's data. I agree i think that the voting should have had students write it out on a piece of paper and then turn it in during class because i felt like a lot of people relied to much on what others wrote for their questions. i think that this also contributed to our questions being centered around finding parking spaces and not other parking problems. i think that parking issues was a great problem to survey for because it got a lot of feed back from students on campus. i think that the googledocs really helped to keep the data organized, and it was really easy to go back into it and change the data when needed.

I agree with the statement above. That would be the only thing that I would change about this project. Other then that I thought that everything else we did worked out well for this project ( wiki, googledocs, etc.)

Googledocs was great and forced folks to get online and use something new. The only downside was if someone was late entering their data or did something to mess up the formatting. Maybe after a certain point in time, you, the creator of the document, could lock the document so no one can make any more changes. I agree with the point about not using wiki for voting. It's good (decent) for idea sharing but for voting it's better not to see others' responses and to have anonymity. Voting on wiki is like telling everyone who you voted for while calling the race before the polls close. Finally, I'd stick with having the class choose the topic, but maybe have some choices available, or do something so they're not as vague as we were! Maybe there should be a hard limit on the number of survey questions rather than just a "suggested" limit.

I think that asking for suggestions and voting was a good to do this, just try to keep in mind that it might be best to keep it anonymous. Also, maybe try to guide students onto problems that aren't already decided in their minds - something they can actually reach a conclusion on. Other than that, I think our system worked well.

I definitely think using wiki and googledocs is a good idea. Many of us have not had experiences using these resources before. It was nice being able to learn how to use them now so if I wanted to use them in the future for my classroom or in general I am already exposed to them. The wiki is also a good way of giving us responsibility of getting things submitted on here and keeping track of participation. As far as the project goes I agree you should just guide them to issues they can come to a conclusion on.

I believe you should let students vote in order to keep their interest in the project and let them suggest some of the possibilities. The wiki and google docs were awesome accessories to the class and the project. But agree with one of the above statements and that perhaps you should lock the page at a certain time so that accidental errors don't occur.

I think letting the students vote is a good idea and works best. The wiki was a great communication tool and resource. I also really liked googledocs because it was easy to use and worked well.