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…
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:…
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/
Going through the Twitter data collection I see that webinar means commercial … click to URL and you are greeted with cheesy graphics of earnest looking people in suits on the phone, looking at a computer, smiling around a conference table with words like “strategic / “newest” / “monitor progress” / “agenda” / “goal alignment”….
I thought I “knew” the edtech network before I started this Twitter project … or least I felt confident explaining it to others at conferences and on EdTechWeekly. However, 7 days into the data mining of the 3,500 or so reciprocal following / followed by relationships with Twitter user edtechtalk, I realize that I have…
My professor and (principle research investigator) routed my Twitter proposal to Human Subjects in the College of Education today. I also have two of my three research protocols stitched together, so things are moving forward despite (or maybe because of) comps. Kind of like cleaning during final exams … other work becomes a happy distraction…
Look what my Johnny did!
I began poking around My Sample® to try to think about ways to slice and dice what I am seeing. I plan to start my formal observations on Saturday, but I did a sneak peek. Some students in class suggested that maybe I am biting off too much with the thousands of potential tweeters, but…
I just received my first of 3 essay questions for my comps. I hate to wish away weeks of my life, but I can’t wait for Thanksgiving 🙂
So, I’m getting everything set up to begin an observation of the activity on the ETT twitter account. However, when I checked in on the account earlier this month, I saw that ETT was following about 1,500 out of the 4,300 or so followers. Assuming that no one had taken the time to troll through…