Almost two-thirds of the responding students enjoyed blogging more than a little. Almost 97% enjoyed blogging at least a little. Only 3.28% didn't enjoy blogging.
More than half of the respondents (54%) thought that their computing skills improved more than a little. 100% thought their computing skills improved at least a little.
Almost 40% of respondents thought that their computing skills improved more than a little. 100% thought their writing skills improved at least a little.
The technical process was just about as interesting as the poll results. Getting the chart from Excel and Windows into Blogger was a challenge for this Mac user. In a nutshell, the workaround entailed:
- Copying and pasting the chart from Excel into Word;
- Selecting the insert-as-picture option immediately after pasting the chart into Word;
- Copying and pasting the picture again, from Word into the Photo Editor, tweaking the size controls in both Word and the Photo Editor to get the picture to fit a new editor file;
- Saving the Photo Editor file as a JPG (or JPEG) file, in ".jpg" format; &
- Uploading the JPG file into a draft blog post.
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Hey Paul,
ReplyDeleteNice work getting the information out and then into Blogger. I think using that style of graph for this kind of data is a no-no, though, as we're not trying to show a trend over time. However, I don't know enough about statistics and the display of information to know what we should use. The ideal might be something like the original display, but brought together into one graph.
Hey, Rick, thanks for your feedback. Your right; since the graph doesn't have a time line, a bar graph might be better. I'll see what I can come up with to use as a replacement.
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