Week 9 May 29 - June 5

Well, this week has been a busy one for me. I have been trying to catch up on the reading assignments, especially since we have a long holiday weekend. I am still one chapter behind, but I think I will be able to read that by tomorrow night sometime. I have been working on my storyboard, trying to get the paper prototype completed. I want to have it done by Wednesday of this week so that I can ask some of the students questions regarding it before they leave for finals, which start on Thursday. I will be able to catch a few of the students before they have to study for their finals.

James

Week 8 May 22 - May 29

Well, I have completed the IRB training and quizzes, but I am still working on my IRB application. I have about half of it done now, but I need to still work on the description and the risk factors, plus the survey that I am going to use. I was having trouble to decide whether to go with "exempt" or "full board" approval, but I am thinking there is always a chance that a community college student might be under the age of 17 or that a student with a disability might access the website from our Math Lab, so I am thinking I will need to go with the full board approval. Is this true?

I haven't started working on my storyboard yet, but I plan to begin working on that this week. My main concern right now is getting my IRB application completed and ready to submit next month.

James

Week 7 May 15 - May 22

This week was not as hectic as last weekend was trying to finish the literature review. But I was able to read through and finally scored 100% on two out of the three quizzes for the IRB. I will try to find time to complete the third quiz later on today.

I will start on my IRB application later on today as well. Hopefully, I will be able to complete that and submit it on blackboard by the end of this week.

I am also working on improvements to my masters proposal to resubmit with all of the changes. I have not run into any major difficulties this week.

James

Week 6 May 8 - May 15

Hi all,

I just finished and submitted my Chapter 2 Literature Review. You can view it at Chapter Two. I hope that I did it correctly. I worked on it the entire weekend, plus I took off part of today from work so that I could get some rest before going to class tonight.

From the process so far, (I am know that I am not done), I have used over 1 ream of paper just printing out articles and went through one black ink cartridge. I am sure that I will need more articles to research before this project is through.

How is everybody else doing? I hope that everyone else is finding their articles successfully. I know that just trying to find articles that relate to my topic is hard enough. But when I find them and begin printing them out, I feel a somewhat sigh of relief.

I still have to complete the readings for tonight. I will finish those this afternoon before class. But as for now, I am glad that I was able to get the literature review finished and turned in.

James