Team Analysis of Driving Question

 1)      Search strategies taken and how the information gathered is evaluated and deemed relevant.

We used various websites channels and resources to gather our information. For example, getting reviews from trip advisor will help us get our research done as there will not be any prejudice in the reviews of the people who went there. One of the strategies we used was corroboration, whereby we compared different sources to finalise our data. We also made use of popplet and the IAIA table in our research. We brainstormed our ideas in the popplet and used the IAIA template to help us organise our thoughts and information. Popplet enables us to sort out our information and thoughts more clearly, it breaks down the major question to sub-questions to further understand the driving question. This allows us to have a better picture of the driving question and aid us further in our research on boutique hotels.


Image: Popplet & IAIA Table

2)      How feedback solicited from peers and facilitator is used to enhance your response to the Driving Question.

We conducted a survey to evaluate our website. Majority of the responses are positive, they like the artefacts that we provided, and they think that our information provided are detailed enough for them to understand what a boutique hotel is. However, some of the responses said that our website is too wordy and suggested that we shorten or summarize our information but still as detailed.

Hence, we finalized our website by these few points:

• Firstly,we included more pictures to brighten up the blog post. This is to make the website less dull and attract readers’ attention.
• Secondly,we also included videos in order to give the readers a better picture of the boutique hotels we researched on. It also serves as an entertainment to readersas we know that it is not easy to read a whole chunk of words.
• Lastly, according to our responses, there were readers saying that our website is too dull and suggested we change our background. So, we changed our website background to a simpler layout and better contrast with the fonts so the readers will have an easier time reading our website.