Friday, October 17, 2008

Some Hints: how to Edit AFTER Publishing (in class, 17th)

How to go back to EDIT what you've typed into your survey AFTER it has already been opened to the public:

You cannot change the wording or order of your survey questions while people are still answering it and typing into your form - logically, that doesn't work, because what would they see??? Therefore, you must CLOSE your survey to the public BEFORE you EDIT it again according to your peer feedback received.

This is how we do it:


Go to our LABEL, find your survey, click on COLLECT RESPONSES, and click on the little parcel symbol which says OPEN



and CLOSE it.



When you've CLOSED your survey, that means nobody can type in any answers while you are changing your wording. When you've finished repairing your survey, OPEN it again for your audience to answer!

Homework for Monday, Oct. 20th:

1. Finish survey, repair it according to peer feedback (IF our gmail accounts work again; if not, you'll get more time for the final proofreading),

2. Finish your letter of introduction (with a nice attention catcher, and a link to your final survey. Don't put the whole long URL in there, that doesn't look good; instead, hyperlink the word "survey" or "link" in your sentence, "Please click on the following LINK to take my survey." Email me your letter of introduction for approval.

3. Email me the pdf file of the REPORT SHEET you created with some peer answers. In case nobody answered to your survey because it wasn't finished or for some other reason, take your survey yourself (or have some friends take it), so you can create and email me the REPORT SHEET. The answers are all fake, anyway. However, you will need some feedback and GRADING SHEETS from your peers; if you didn't get any by Monday, Oct. 20th, let me know, and I'll assign someone for extra credit to take your survey.
4. Start collecting 20 emails from your audience.

ATTENTION: This morning, all our grammar300.com emails did not work (nobody could read the inbox, or compose).

You can email me your pdf file and letter (and email your peers their feedback and grading sheets) from any private or siu email account you have, in case our gmail class accounts still don't work!!! Just send them to my grammar300.com email, because I can read it ;-) Also, send your peer feedback to the usual address; we suppose gmail will start working soon again. If not, you get a different deadline for reading and incorporating your peers' feedback.







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