Final Blog Post

Overall, I feel that this project was very difficult to complete in that our organization and time management skills were lacking dramatically. The first of the major problems that we faced in our project was implementing our project in that we had to get our homeroom teachers to somehow report back to us the amount of students watching Puka Mai Ka La. What we learned from this is to start our project early because the approval process to email the project survey out to all the teachers takes a very long time. Additionally, this put us behind schedule and our plan and schedule was affected immensely. I feel that this project taught me a lot about Puka Mai Ka La too, which is pretty much that it isn’t even watched by majority of the teachers around school. I believe that we did benefit Kamehameha as a whole because we answered our initial question, “How many people are watching Puka Mai Ka La?” We can use our data that we collected to improve the ratings and the amount of viewers watch Puka Mai Ka La so that hopefully more students will start watching the show and getting the valuable news that Puka Mai Ka La broadcasts.

FINAL BLOG POST

My Overall Thoughts on the project was that this was a really different curricular for the end of the year. I actually really enjoyed it even though it was stressful, I felt like it really got me thinking and doing work and learning more real life problem solving that I wouldn't usually get in a regular classroom environment. This project was different and I really enjoyed it overall to have to adapt to different situations and take responsibility not only for me but for my other group members.
Things that went well was the overall project, i feel that not only was our group successful in getting our question answered and getting data and using it, but that other groups actually impacted the school. I think thats what was the best part about this project is that we actually did something that contributed to the school and something that was totally real. Now for things that didnt go quite as planned for instance was the administration...... But that can't be helped! Also the difference between a realistic situation and a idealistic solution for our case that we had to deal with. Though throughout the project I learned a lot, in the sense of having to take real problems and real situation in the world and dealing with them. You couldnt just go ask and wait around for the problem to fix itself, I had to go and physically fix what needed to be fixed myself and learn to problem solve whether it be a computer issue or a people issue. I had to learn to fix it and deal with it. To make this a better activity I might give the students the 3rd quarter or so to start really looking for a problem they are passionate about, we had time but sometimes the best problems just come to you when you least expect it and I feel that might just make them a little bit more prepared or have no effect at all, but i have no clue hahahahha. Did i think i was doing science? Yes. End of story. no, but I really feel like I was since I have always been taught that science isn't just a matter of equations and theories but problem solving and implementing your work and we might not have been doing experiments everyday but we were sure doing science.

Final Blog Post

Out project was overall all right, it wasn't a huge success but it did end successfully. When we began our project with the Nielson idea and building the little black box, we discovered that it was harder to do with the little research we could find on it. Then when we began to create the survey, we found another dillemma with sending a mass e-mail to the teachers requiring approval. The approval took too long and we didn't have time to waste so after about a week of waiting for approval, we decided to walk around the campus and physically hand out the survey to teachers. This is where the good things began to happen. By manually passing out the surveys, the teachers wanted to do the survey for us more than they would have been willing to do it over e-mail. This way made it personal and showed the teachers that we really wanted their feedback and that it was for a good cause. With the teachers willing to do the survey for us, our results were very accurate and the percent of teachers not encouraging their classrooms to watch Puka Mai Ka La were astoundingly low. So as I conclude on the our Final, I'd like to say thanks to Mr. Blake for helping us realize that helping Kamehameha and improving anything in general is harder than we think. We complain about things and think of ideas that we think simple all the time however as we have just learned, the actual modeling and formation of the idea and the action of actually doing it is way harder than we all think it is and so now before we complain, we should think if we would realistically be able to solve and fix the problem.

DATA

When we collected data our results were surprising, we discovered that barely anyone watched Puka Mai Ka La. The surveys showed that a very minimum of people actually turn the channel on to watch it and on top of that barely people in the room pay attention and watch it when it is on. For instance more than 50% of homerooms didn't even turn on the TV. Also we learned that our laptops have become a very large distraction during homerooms and we acquired this information from the survey learning that whether or not Puka Mai Ka La is o nor not, majority of the students are on the laptops.

Progress!

Today we got lots of work done. We started to really crank things out and get going with the survey and the collection of data. Since we didn't get approval from the Akahi Student Center yet for the email to get sent out to all the homeroom teachers, we went door to door and handed out the survey for teachers to take. We got about 11 teachers to take it and a lot of them didnt even turn on Puka Mai Ka La today! This data is good though since we now know a lot of homerooms dont even turn it on, so that could be the first step is to try and get more homerooms interested in the show and see what we can do to get the number of viewers up.

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Catching Up #3

Tomorrow after we collect the data then we will be starting our final report and our Kenote/Powerpoint. Our powerpoint will include graphs to show the data and we won't add all that flashy stuff but instead only the necessary the information and we will verbally explain in detail all of our information during our presentation.  We hope to finish the powerpoint by the end of this week along with the draft. The draft is due May 18 and the final is due the 23rd so to make sure we're on top of things we will be doing it on Google docs.

Catching up #2

After the surveys go out this week, we will be able to collect data that will help the video productions class. Our next goal is to somehow make it possible for the e-mail to be sent automatically after we get approval and hopefully this physically delivering the message is only temporary. If it is not temporary then the video productions class won't be able to retrieve any more data after the project ends so they won't be able to tell if the ratings go up or down, if the e-mail gets approve then after the project they'll be able to send it out daily or at least weekly. The mass e-mail containing the survey is a convenient tool for the video productions class so we hope that it will get approve by the end of the week. 

 Here is an example of what the survey looks like, it is very short. 

   

Catching Up #1

So today we went in to see if we could get approval for the mass e-mail and still we couldn't so we decided to talk to Mr. Blake and he said if we could go around and hand deliver them so we're going to do that. Austin and Kaitlyn had hand delivered some today and tomorrow one of them will deliver it doing 5th period and the other will pick it up from the teachers during 1st. Below is a link to the survey if any of you would like to look at it. It is short and sweet because we figure that the shorter it is then the easier it would be for the teachers to finish and no one likes to take 10 minutes doing a survey so this one should only take a minute or two max.

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22CCEBVFXDL/

Finishing touches

So right now we're waiting for approval from administration to send out the e-mail. We sent it in to them last week and have been checking on it everyday since but they haven't gotten around to giving us approval yet. Tomorrow in class hopefully they'll approve it or maybe we'll decide to just walk around and physically hand it out to classes in the following day. Tomorrow we will also show Mr. Blake the prototype of our design since it was finished last week but we didn't have it in class to show it for credit.

Getting there!

So, today in class we have everything working out slowly. I went down to the Akahi Student center to get the email approved since it is going out to all of the homeroom teachers. So over the weekend the email will be getting approved to send out and hopefully all the homeroom teachers will take the survey so we can input our data and start making our graphs of the data. The sooner we can do this all, the more surveys we can take to see a progression of the results over time. We really need to get going on this and by monday hopefully we will be able to get ahead on this project! If we don't get this approved by monday then we plan to physically go to homerooms and ask the teacher to fill out the survey so we can get our data.

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Implementing our project

This week we have made headway into our project. Right now I am trying to get a email approved to send out to all homeroom teachers. in the email there is a link to a survey that we asked teachers to fill out regarding the views of Puka Mai Ka La. We are now undergoing to get the survey out and for teachers to take it. With the data we plan to organize it then see what the results are. As we get those results in, I predict that we will need to figure out a way to improve the results and number of viewers in for the show. We will then send out the survey again and hopefully see improvement. This will all be done in the next week!

Almost Complete

So today we talked to the student center about having a list of homeroom teachers that we could send our e-mail too. We also asked how we go about putting our link in the daily bulletin to remind teachers to do the survey. I started the detailed design today, which is really late but now that we actually know exactly what to do and what we're doing then we should be good and now I can actually write about it and not fluff the entire thing. Also since we will start e-mailing the surveys to the teachers tomorrow, our data (taken everyday) should be very good by Friday.


To the right is a picture of Austin doing work on the computer. He's doing the final touches to the survey.