I was just sending the first part of my email interviews out to students, when I thought I should check the link to my web page. I’d forgotten that I’d tried out my Flickr badge there. It works very effectively but lots of my Flickr pix were taken at the Guinness factory when I went […]
Open the relevant FirstClass conference. Right-clicking on the column names in grey allows you to choose which columns will be displayed. Choose Attachments, Name, Last Modified, Kind, Subject. (Kind is just in there to aid the sorting process). Sort by Name by left-clicking on the grey Name column heading. Drag the columns into order. In […]
Gill has just pointed out to me a brilliant feature of Snag-It. It will pick up text which could not normally be cut and pasted. So the menus on a FirstClass conference, which appear as text, but which I was having to copy across manually, can be picked up in a text capture grab of […]
I’ve finished one entire interview! Epistolary interviews do take a long time – this one took three and a half weeks, but there’s lots of very good and thoughtful data coming in, so I’m happy about that. Must sort out my data collection in a bit more detail, though. I have several groups in which […]
I’ve started my epistolary interviews. I have two tutor groups on which all the students and at least one tutor have agreed to me archiving their FirstClass conference, so I’m now interviewing all members of those groups who agreed to an epistolary interview. I got my first response in less than an hour, and I […]
Just been to http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/rssjnllist.html and I’ve set up RSS feeds for all the jornals I receive Zetoc alerts for. A lot of them have no items in their feed but some (eg JCAL) have a list of all the articles in the current issue and you can click to get authors, and then drill down to […]
My computer is full of tools for planning the structure of my academic article. I’ve tried it in different Word modes. I’ve tried it on Powerpoint slides. I’ve (halfheartedly) used some concept mapping software. So why is the current plan currently scribbled on the back of a large envelope?
My supervisors asked me to note in my blog / journal that I should consider my interview questions carefully as I am carrying out my interviews, and I should remember that I can change the questions to elicit the best possible data.
Just been reading Guy Claxton, and that reminded me of the importance of emotion in education. Could I do an emotional analysis of the conference? Is it emotion that moves the students on, or does emotion get in the way of doing anything? I think, when a student gets upset about the deadlines, that stimulates […]
Shifts in the power structure of the conference. Who are the members expecting to have power? When do they take power? When do they have power passed to them? When is power forced upon them? How does this happen? Why does it happen?