Earlier today, whilst driving to and from Livingston, I spent some time thinking about the format for my dissemination. I took a Kraftwerk CD, as well as Daft Punk’s Tron soundtrack to offer some digitally themed inspiration. Motoring along the A71, I had the following thoughts.
This evening I had a quick look at Thinglink to see whether its potential to create interactive images might be suitable for my plans (as I don’t quick click with Prezi). The answer was ‘no’ for the following reason which can be added to the list above as another guiding light (warning light) for the format in general.
Some useful thoughts here. More to follow the next time on the A71.
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I should attend this next week: I'll also be able to access the audio recording afterwards via the Online Assessment course site. That's a(nother) reward for agreeing to contribute a session to the OA as a guest tutor.
The first interview went well today. Room for improvement certainly, however it seemed to go along smoothly. It ended up being a bit rushed at the end - and that after an hour and forty minutes. As well as needing to reduce the number of questions, Sian was good enough to email later in the day with the following feedback:
Before heading out to NYC, Michael e-mailed to say that he would be stuck on Long Island looking for things to do to pass the time. I obliged by e-mailing him my proposed interview questions. As ever he came back quickly with valuable suggestions, as follows (actionable points in bold):
I'm off now to revisit the questions ahead of the first interview tomorrow morning.
I'll admit to being a bit anxious ahead of tomorrow's interview with Sian. Better that than feeling complacent, I expect. This evening I've been doing some final preparation: devising new questions and redrafting new ones. And earlier today I spent a bit of time reading over what Robson has to offer in Real World Research. Here (to aid my memory) is a list of some of the most relevant points, some of which I've already actioned:
Time for one more look over my interview questions and then it's time to set an alarm for tomorrow morning.
Ahead of the forthcoming interviews with tutors from the MSc in E-Learning, I've been looking back at my Research Methods blog from this time last year. Somewhere, I know I put together some notes on how to conduct a narrative interview, probably drawn from the excellent Real World Research book by Robson. I haven't found my summary yet, however I did come rediscover the feedback I collected (from members of the course team - the same people I'll be interviewing in the coming weeks) at the end of the interviews that Michael and I conducted for the New Geographies project. Here's what I recorded:
That's really useful. Another good reason for getting involved in 'over-and-above' activities, as well as another good reason for collecting thoughts in a blog. Now to find those Robson notes...
Some possible questions ahead of my interview with Sian this Tuesday. I'll begin the interviews - conducted in Skype text - by offering some introductory background:
And then onto the questions:
And then rounding up:
Whilst looking through old EDC assignments to use during the forthcoming interviews with course tutors, I came across this assignment that takes a non-linear approach to the representation of ideas and, from what I've read of the introduction, itself explores multimodality. I'll bookmark this here. There might other assignments of value to add to this - a resource I hadn't otherwise considered.
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