Tag Archives: methodology
Fishing for clues vs fishing for answers
I’ve been revisiting a lot of interview data recently in working on my analysis and trying to figure out how all of this will come together. By ‘this’ I refer to THE BIG MAMMOTH OVERWHELMING THING THEY CALL A THESIS but that’s another rant for another day. I conducted these interviews in the second half [...]
Wordle for June
Oh my goodness. I can’t believe it’s June – I’m still getting used to writing “2010″ instead of “2009″! Below is a Wordle (http://www.wordle.net) generated from the beginning section of my “Methodology/Methods” chapter. As I’ve blogged before, Wordle works by generating a “word cloud” based on the frequency of words in a given text – [...]
My PLN and those “Aha!” moments
Mid-2008, I submitted my research proposal for review and gave a panel presentation about it (nerve-wracking stuff!). In my proposal, I outlined the literature and rationale behind the study, the proposed methodology and methods, ethical considerations, research instruments, intended analysis (and analytical framework), and so on – everything you’d expect to see in a qualitative [...]
Exploring Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Download a print friendly(er) version of this essay here When I first pitched the idea to develop my doctoral dissertation as a hypertext in website form, I had no idea that this request would be considered unusual. I also had no idea that it had not been done before at my institution (that we know [...]
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 [...]
Exploring (Social) Constructi-on/v-ism
I constructed these slides (get it? Constructed?) to help me get my head around “social constructionism” vs “social constructivism” whilst writing my methodology chapter for my doctoral dissertation. The following presentation represents my understandings, and its value/accuracy/trustworthiness will, in turn, depended upon your own understandings. Social Constructi-on/v-ism: Same-same lah but different?
Conference Poster
This is the poster I’ve made for the GloCALL conference in Indonesia 08-13 November. It reports on my work in progress and is essentially a graphical representation of my research proposal. I designed it to look like a website because my work is not meant to be “viewed” in a linear fashion: I am exploring [...]
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, [...]
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