Comps are done. Classes are done. First draft of lit. review and methods done for dissertation. First round of comments back from my advisor. Taking the advice of my advisor, I am not trying to change the education world with my dissertation … just focusing on it as the next stepping stone in my journey […]
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Attached is my final report on my qualitative case study of the twitter sub-network comprised of reciprocol following relationships with user edtechtalk. Feel free to add you comments … I prefer nice comments.
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Stumbled on some interesting resources and articles regarding qualitative data analysis (QDA): Qualitative Articles Digital research tools wiki Transana: opensource qualitative analysis software for video and audio data ($65 student discount price) I purchased Transana and downloaded the trial version of the commercial Atlas QDA. Beyond the twitter project, I have a back-channel project where
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My data collection is done and I have a ton to read and re-read. I am clearly at the “so what?” stage and still struggling with the impact of where (and who) I focused on during the data collection stage. That said, I do think I captured data to help me answer my primary research
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I spent the week at AECT in Louisville, KY. The funny thing is the conference is attended by those who are paid to be edu-geeks, but I had about the most powered down week in the past 3 years. I had the awesome opportunity to meet f2f with 12 or so of my fellow ODU
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Just waiting now to hear if I have HSR approval to send out the interview. I tossed up the interview questions on SurveyMonkey last night and it should take participants around 15 minutes to answer the questions. I made each question a “required” response, but all they have to do is put a character in
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I concluded my Twitter observations last night and compiled all of my notes into one file. I am too tempted to quantitatively review my data … so I am going to get it out of my system here … I have over 1,093 individual tweets to review which I dumped into Excel to helps me
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I’m in the struggle between finding an interesting dissertation topic that will propel me through the end of the process and one that I can put a neat bow on within a “reasonable” time period. To that end, here is the beginning of some thoughts … Historical lit review / historical context of Open Education:
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Here is an interesting take on the “macro” twitter world (taken from the twitter API for all of twitter) that maybe can help me compare / contrast what I see in my “micro” world (for example, where folks post from, average number of followers, tweets, etc). http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/05/twitter-data-analysis-an-investors-perspective/
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