In our latest module - Nutrition and weight management - me and the faculty academic decided to hit the 21st century with some real time data collection in class.
"Oh you used clickers, how dreadfully last season darling" is that what I hear you say?
Well no - we did not.
We collected data on 2 different subjects.
The 1st to collect tasting data to be used by students in a course work assignment so there was no pressing need to have the data immediately available at the end of the session but it was fun. However, I did the same session last year and the students filled out the tasting survey on paper instead of on this handy google form (although why I decided to make it purple is anyone's guess) which meant that someone had to put all the data into a spreadsheet by hand. Whereas, with my handy google form (which does work on a smart phone - try it - i dare you ) the spreadsheet was instantly made for me and you get a summary of results in nice little pie charts too. (see right)
Our second data collecting experiment using the same process involved an appetite survey which the students were asked to rate their appetite before and after meals for a day. We had three forms, breakfast, lunch and dinner. This data was used in class as part of a lecture so we put the numbers into a chart, in the way the professor requested, and he used it to illustrate his point using data from the students in the room. This should give you a warm fuzzy feeling caused by a personalised classroom and engaged students but mostly I was just excited to see the prof reffering to my graphs in a lecture!!
"Oh you used clickers, how dreadfully last season darling" is that what I hear you say?
Well no - we did not.
We collected data on 2 different subjects.
Our second data collecting experiment using the same process involved an appetite survey which the students were asked to rate their appetite before and after meals for a day. We had three forms, breakfast, lunch and dinner. This data was used in class as part of a lecture so we put the numbers into a chart, in the way the professor requested, and he used it to illustrate his point using data from the students in the room. This should give you a warm fuzzy feeling caused by a personalised classroom and engaged students but mostly I was just excited to see the prof reffering to my graphs in a lecture!!
Little things to please the geek :)
No comments:
Post a Comment