What's up? How have you been? Hope you've all been doing well. Time's flying by and we are already entering April. That's absolutely crazy. I can safely say we are all on the final stretch to the end of the school year. Now, for the past two weeks, I have been working on the ever-so elusive survey which you will all finally get your hands on. Everyone seemed super excited to take the survey, and I am really happy about that. The links will be included at the bottom of this post. For now, I am going to talk about the final touches on my survey
In order to finish up the survey for public use, it had to go through some stages of editing. After compiling a list of all the questions, I would go through and read each one very carefully in order to make sure they were as clear and concise as possible. They had to be impartial and easy to answer. When people think about a question for too long, they become bored and impatient, and will probably answer the following questions very poorly. Some questions ended up needing to be elaborated upon. Some were combined with others. Some were taken out completely. It ended up looking professional and understandable... until my mom came in with the mind set of someone not tech-savvy (she's definitely not adept with technology). She would slap some sense into my tech-geared mind, so terms and other procedures that make complete sense to me but may leave someone like my mom completely clueless had to be revised. It wasn't until this round of editing was completed that my survey was ready for release. Because you can't have more than a survey with more than 10 questions without paying for it on SurveyMonkey, I had to split up my survey among two links. Make sure that if you do decide to take my survey, which I really implore you to do, take both. There's also a cool little activity at the end of the survey for you to do. Just a little something to spice it up.
In addition to finishing my survey this week, I also took it upon myself to mess around with all the different anti-virus/anti-malware services. I did basic research learning a lot more about why there are multiple services when they all pretty much do the same thing -- protect against malware. I plan to actually pit them against real malware by placing harmful malware on my computer. Of course, it will be in a controlled environment. But hey, if something does go wrong, I've been planning on changing the parts in my computer for a while now, so I'd have an excuse. Maybe I'll even record myself doing so, and let you guys see it in action next week. Who knows? We'll have to wait and see.
Here are the links to the surveys. Survey 1 Survey 2 . The first is linked to my first survey, and the second one to my second survey. Take them in order, and I hope you like the end. As always, it had been a pleasure writing this blog and I look forward to reading your comments. As usual, this is Adam, signing off.
