Spring+Student+Survey

**The Sixth Grade Students at The Haverford School took the survey below on Survey Monkey in late April. I asked all 73 students to fill out the survey. After spending classtime to fill out the survey, I had about 10 boys that still had not completed the survey. Some of the problems included not having a netbook, having poor connectivity to the internet, and having trouble finding the site. In taking surveys throughout the year with the sixth grade, there is always a handful of students that have trouble filling out the survey. Using the netbooks in the class does not always guarantee 100% participation, which this exercise reveals.**



**The data from the survey is presented below:**









**Other uses of the netbooks:**

google docs Graphing in Science most school work creating homework projects, studying for a quiz/test projects School Projects In math we do problems online Note Taking and Reasearch Projects and excercizes progams for class like scratch or windows movie maker Google docs lab reports Projects powerpoints studying in study hall/checking what homework I have Studying Studying before tests























**What web tools did you find most useful? (other)**

Open Office wikepedia But can we have microsoft word I just like using microsoft word and not the open office it is a lot slower and cant save in ODF A lot of math websites Google docs documents nothing



**What internet tools would you like to learn most about next year? **

google docs Youtube and google chrome. I'm not really sure, but google products and microsoft GOOGLE nothing how to make a website iMovie, Windows Movie Maker etc. making movies-imovie None Gym gym I want to learn more about movie maker. macs movie makerb Power Point Movie Maker I don't know. wikapedia Wiki pages Prezi I would prefer to use macs or if we have laptops at home we could use that scratch, google earth espn in math Presi google docs Net Books I don't know any other. not sure windows movie maker prezi google translate ? I have used all of the tools i have heard of. i dont know nothing khan academy Microsoft word All the web search Prezi None, I know Google docs and Word. I don't need any others. windows movie maker N/A Prezi NONE Google docs I would like to learn more about forms on google docs, and glogster ? how to transfer something onto a flashdrive Google Presentation I don't know Ipad google earth glogster Google Docs IDK I don't know. Not really. N/A nothing1 I'd like to learn about KhanAcademy Dont have one Khan Academy Bring our on computers


 * Name some advantages of using netbooks this year? **

more internet projects Faster to get things down, more educational programs to help with work, being able to share documents on google docs and acess them at home instead of having hundreds of papers. (less paper = greener school) more work being done Online acess it is like a note book without losepapers all over the place yes because it is more fun At my old school we had macs in fifth grade, but in fourth grade, I had very bad handwriting and it is easier to read (for the teachers) more work done Much easier to carry around your information and you can take notes more easily (Opinion). bragging to other grades nothing You can access more stuff everywhere and you can hold a lot more then a bunch of papers. its our own It gives you a plan B if you leave your work at school More organized and my backpack is less crammed with books and such I was not here in 5th grade, but the netbooks make research much easier. I had better activity with home and school. You can get the work done faster and you can access websites faster. I can access things that at home that I made at school. It is neater It makes it a lot easier to take notes and to research stuff google docs helps having everything organized. Faster work but some distraction Now we can do our work faster. work is easier Faster work completion My work is better, it is easy to work on. you can do more work at school and have less things to do at home for online work I can do my work faster. in 5th grade i did work slower and had more need to talk during class I can be more organized and complete great work is so much easier I have all the information I need on the internet it is hard to compare less paper fifth grade some of the work we did would have been much better if we used google docs You could have easier acess to a computer

We can type and save our work so we can access it whenever we want. Being able to work on things at school and at home with google docs. Being able to download history notes into google docs and add more to them during history class Typing I find myself now to be more productive Easier to work on It is a lot easier to take notes in History Easy to file It made a big difference in history. I could go faster and keep up and I did not have to worry about leaving my notes at school. In fifth grade, we did not have our own computers and had to go to other class rooms to do work. Now we have no shortage of computers in a class. WORK IS SAVED ONLINE it gets me to work faster Last year if someone forgot to log off the computer we had to find them and they had to unlock it. Now we have our own netbooks. It made things faster and I was able to work on my school work from home. Notetaking I get to search things more stuff faster last year if someone forgot to log off we would have to find them and get them to unlock the computer but We can always type if we need to which last year there was not enough computers for everyone to be on. more people can be work on the computer at the same time Fighting over computers, portable, only you can use it, having a choice of taking it with you or leaving it. It is a lot easier to keep your work organized, and they are pretty easy to use. This year we can use the netbooks whenever we want last year we had to ask to use them. Last year we had labtops in jolloza so no difference It is more reliable and you will aways be faster doing work. nothing really It is easier and faster to do work. Yes


 * Disadvantages to using the netbooks this year in sixth grade **

they break easily They are pretty low quality and are easily broken, slow, and the battery can come out so that is VERY easy to damage. playing games when your bored at times and talking to each other in the chat window for google docs and its kinda slow at times The Netbooks are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo slow slowness sometimes it is slow They get dropped constantly and are hard to carry around sometimes. They are slow and get many viruses.We should have macbooks. The internet is the school is really bad so doing stuff on a netbook like this. they are slow and get many viruses (I Highly dislike them) it is to slow It is slow. they are sooooo slow they can get slow, and are fragile, but otherwise they are ok Sometimes they are very slow and sometimes when im on googledocs it says trying to reach google.com only during history and my screen freezes. Although mine has not, there probably will be some technological glitches. Too slow. games. Connection None The netbooks are a little small and the internet is slow so sometimes it takes to long to do something and it might effect the class Sometimes slow none When I download, for example, a word document, nothing responds even when I restart over 3 times. My cooling fan sometimes says that it doesn't work and I have to bring it to the tech department for the whole day. none ???????? None. it can be hard to click on things, they are really slow nothing they are easy to break they're a distraction break easily. They are slow, the mouse does not work right, the small screen can be frustrating microsoft word nothing really slow They're extremely slow and not very great for writing They are kind of slow and some times can be distracting. They have a very slow processing speed. Distracts some people WE CANT USE ARE OWN NETBOOKS. Easily Breakable The click pad is absolutely horrible. Terrible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Proseser It is nice to have a computer but It is slow, small, and bad.

Netbooks are a big destraction to some of my classmates, and to me. To be honest, sometimes I play games during class and at break. I would not classify myself as addicted, but sometimes I need a little break during class.

virus i dont have any I don't like how netbooks are so small. Also, they can break easily if they drop. I think we could maybe get more durable type netbooks.

That the netbooks break for no reason for instant mine broke in the middle of my class in the begining of the year. I say we should invest in Ipad 2's or a mac's. Another thing we could do is bring our coomputers in to school.

The battery is always empty. the web sites are often slow. they are slow and have to many bugs Loading pages. They are too slow, they often crash on me, and sometimes lose connection and won't allow me to save my work. Slow internet connection, losing info/not being able to find stuff. They are very fragile and easy to break. I really don't like/ hate the netbooks because sometimes it deletes my work, slows down and shuts the internet down. THEY ARE EXTREALMLY SLOW HP AND WINDOWS I HATE BUT PLEASE LET ME BRING MY MAC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They can be slow They take for ever to load They can be slow sometimes. There slow and wireless stinks


 * Any other comments about the netbooks **

I have had a broken battery for THREE MONTHS and have been checking back every couple of weeks and the tech department has never had a new battery for me.

get better software

The internet in Mr. Suter's room is very slow

WE NEED MAC BOOKS! the netbooks are horrible and break easily. We should at least be aloud to bring in our computers from homer.

NETBOOKS ARE HORRIBLe

we should use macs!!!

more speed

NONE

there needs to be a better charging system. Also need netbooks that can withstand more 'wear and tear'.

The tech department can't fix squat. I had a problem that "couldn't" be fixed. Then my dad fixed it in two days.

slowness

microsoft office

We could get open office 11 which would make presentations

I don't know how to share on windows movie maker.

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It is easy to do work.

why does the lower school get ipads?

macbooks instead of netbooks

windows live movie maker is much better than powerpoint

Please we need Micrcrosoft word

I think the net books are good and helped me a lot this year with organizing my work and transferring it from school to home and from home to school.

Good for typing that's about all you need. I don't think you need fancy projects. Just Word and Google Docs.

We should be able to use are own laptops I feel very strong about my opinion

The software updates shutdown the computer all the time. BETTEr CompuTer

I would definatley like to be able to bring your own computers in or have ipads instead of netbooks. Occasionally, I feel that the connectivity is slow. I think we could use Microsoft Word instead of Open Office because most things posted on Moodle pages are in Microsoft Word not Open Office. Also, I think we could bring our own laptops or Macbooks to school so we can work at home so If internet is down or we can't get to Moodle we have our laptops.

You never fixed my netbook. It broke in October. The loaners internet never works and it always is out of battery

improve the Haverford Software and Internet because Open Office is much worst than Microsoft Word or Mac Word and Haverford Google apps is not fast enough because the Haverford Browser installed into for educational purposes makes more for the Netbook to proses there for slowing down the entire google apps server for haverford and the Netbooks

I would rather bring in my computer, or get macbooks. PLEASE CAN I BRING MY MACBOOOOK We should get Macbooks its screen is small always takes for ever to load and people always complain USE PAPER! Some people are getting viruses because there is no anti-virus program. Note taking