Category Archives: Research Toolkit
These are a few of my favourite things
I’ve been running (facilitating) a course for Languages teachers based on the 23 Things programme here at Murdoch University (which was in turn adapted from the http://macetg.wordpress.com/about-learning-20-mac/ project at McMaster University Library) for a year and a half now. In it we explore 23 ICT Things that are useful for learning/teaching Languages both in terms [...]
Good Looking with Technology
There must be something more interesting for social scientists to do with their computers than coding data. Mason & Dicks, 2001, p. 441. And I certainly agree! I gave a “Friday Morning Seminar” presentation to the faculty of Education a couple of weeks ago in which I described how I am using technologies to research [...]
iPhone app development update
I can’t believe I’ve had the iPhone for nearly 2yrs now (I wrote about my excitement it back in 2008), and how much I’ve come to use it so much I forget that I’m using it. Of course I can look that or this up straight away. Of course I can access my email whilst [...]
The importance of (good) data management
I know the importance of organization during any project. Home renovations, cooking a lamb roast, going to a concert, conducting fieldwork for research. It will go a lot more smoothly (and be more useful) if you plan, conduct and keep it organized as you go. I didn’t do this very well during my fieldwork. I [...]
The iPhone as Method/s
Lining up for the iPhone on release day was akin to lining up for Harry Potter. There was a sense of anxiety-anticipation in the line and an awful lot of people who you’d expect to see immortalised in The Joy of Tech Comic. Myself included. I knew that the iPhone would become an essential tool [...]
My Online Research Toolkit
The temptation with a blog is to write posts that other people have already blogged about. In writing about my discoveries during my time at Murdoch, it’s tempting to do a bit of retrospective and to talk about all of the things I’ve found over the past year and a half. But many others have [...]
Choosing CAQDAS/EHE Software
I have been investigating different types of Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS) because I need a way of both creating an Ethnographic Hypermedia Environment (EHE) and also managing the data I will create and collect. I am unsure as yet whether one package will be adequate for data collation and analysis and (re)presentation, [...]