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Eclipse
My friend Caroline’s show “Eclipse” opened today at the Peterborough Art Gallery. I really enjoyed the large-scale video and film installations, as well as the elegant storyboards documenting the process. She examines the relationship between scientific inquiry and technology from a much more politicized perspective than I do. I like that she does this, that…
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Coding interviews
I’m presenting at SITE 2005 in a couple of weeks, so I’ve decided to take more of a project management approach to analyzing interview data, and consequently feel somewhat more in control. To code, I developed a short list of five tentative tree nodes to match a text segment in NVivo, and try to organize…
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Analytic Toolkit
A big thank you to Wendy–I seem to have resolved my weblog login and publishing problems for the moment. Instead of taking more sweeps through my interview data from iteration 1 and 2 like I had planned to this afternoon, I explored the Analytic Toolkit for Knowledge Forum . Looking at the quantitative analyses actually…
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Data Management Frustration
In Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Traditions (1998), Creswell represents the data analysis process as a spiral, moving in analytic circles rather than using a fixed linear approach. Data management,the first loop in the spiral, begins the process. Researchers organize their data into file folders, index cards, computer files, etc. for analysis…
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Feasibility of using videoblogs
I tried to upload a small .mov file (~788KB) to see how easy it would be upload video blog entries. I think if we could do this, it would really be helpful in increasing social presence in a course using primarily text-based, asynchronous CMC. It may be just me, but it was taking too long…
