Tag Archives: Research Toolkit

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]