Blog 8 Revised Research Plan

Before last class I decided I was going to do my research project on how people use social media sites for example; Facebook and Twitter, to help them with school assignments or how writing has been affected by social media. During my meeting with Dr. Chandler we decided that I would stick to my first idea; how people use social media to help them with school assignments.While doing my research I was able to come across a status I wrote a few years ago. I wrote it on November 10, 2010 and was regarding junk food in public schools.

What I plan on finding out in my research is how students in college use Facebook "events" and status updates to help them with there school projects. I also plan on finding out what type of assignments are most commonly put on Facebook/ Twitter. For example; surveys, essay topics, or debate questions. I plan on gathering my research by interviewing a few people that I have seen do this and ask them why they did it and whether it was helpful or not. I also want to interview people that said they would never do it and find out why.

In my meeting with Dr. Chandler we were having trouble finding resources written about this. We found many articles about how teachers use social media to make classroom discussion but not as much reearcg on Facebook and how students use it for help but while we were searching for journals we came aross these two;

http://proceedings.informingscience.org/InSITE2010/InSITE10p173-190Villiers742.pdf

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360131511002326

These articles were very helpful and I plan on referring to them while doing my research.