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CSSE/SCÉÉ 2006
All in all, CSSE/SCÉÉ 2006 at York University was a success! I participated in my first preconference workshop and presented two papers, both of which prompted much-appreciated, helpful feedback from a stunningly high-calibre audience 🙂 The preconference was for the special interest group (SIG), Technology for Teacher Education (TATE). Activity Theory (Engestrom, 1985) provided the…
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Grinding the conceptual gears
Shifting my thinking from one paper to another, all based on my dissertation, is somewhat challenging! I’m shifting between ideas that are more cognitive to those that are more teacher education, but they are inevitably intertwined. To help me transition between papers, I read a number of articles relevant to the papers I’m writing this…
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Tagging and Coding
Thanks Wendy for referring me to Zoomclouds. I now have 30 tags of all my entries to date on my weblog. Clicking on a semantic cloud tag, e.g. graduate students displays the entries that used the tag: My thoughts on a PhD; Positioning yourself for a career in academia; and Finding and connecting. As a…
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Coding in NVivo 7
Lately, I have been absorbed with coding data in NVivo 7. I’m using different kinds of coding–topical, descriptive, analytical–at different levels of organization (free nodes, tree nodes). Preparing documents to enable auto-coding for topical coding was tedious and took a long time, but I think it is beginning to pay off. In terms of descriptive…
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How did I learn to research?
I began this entry a while back, when I read a section in Latour & Woolgar (1979) that resonated with me in reflecting on how I learned to research: Almost without exception, every discussion and brief exchange observed in the laboratory centred around one or more items in the published literature (Latour, 1976). In other…
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My thoughts on a PhD
Clare and Wendy have blogged about what a PhD means to them, which made me wonder what it means to me. For me, becoming a PhD is about having the freedom and support to do research that interests me and makes a difference to my field. I want to be a good researcher. It’s not…
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Whither the research questions go…
P4140003.JPG Originally uploaded by nfujita. I’m still trying to get my head around tag clouds that Chris suggests I could use instead of Nvivo:) While I read about semantic tagging, social bookmarking, collaborative tagging, etc., I’ve also been making progress on other analyses for my dissertation. The tagging seems to me potentially useful for following…
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Describing Knowledge Forum Visualizations
Getting back to the visualization of KF activity, I’ll elaborate on what these graphical representations suggest about the students’ participation over time, and their relationships with each other and ideas in terms of build-on, reference, and annotations. (I know the photo has nothing to do with the visualizations, but I’m overjoyed that it is finally…
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More on KF visualizations and NVivo
I’ve been test coding in NVivo, and wondering how I can capture the richness of my data (hmm, sounds like something Bruce might say) while avoiding duplication of analyses available through tools like ATK and what Chris has been making great strides on using Ruby on Rails. For instance, do I code scaffolds in NVivo,…
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KF Visualizations and NVivo 7
Chris’ cool visualizations of Knowledge Forum data–my thesis data–are really exciting! The web of interconnections between the notes graphed over time are promising, and tagging and clever use of color might be revealing. Looking forward to more:) Meanwhile, I’m going to play around with NVivo to code the discourse. I’ve used it previously to code…