take academic journals down on monday to look at how they look -
geertz - According to Clifford GEERTZ (1973) the concept of cultural anthropology in the late 50ies and early 60ies has been very straightforward: “They have a culture out there and your job is to come back and tell us what it is”., According [...]
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notes for week 2 of qual
do bono info from wikipedia - to use in class doing brainstorming
Initial Ideas - Blue, White, Green, Blue
people take on roles during hte brainstorming and brainstorm session goes thru stages - that’s the blue, white, green,blue
green is the creative phase, blue is when ya think/talk about the process, white is the factual statement phase
there are other phases (other hats) for other kinds of group sessions - [...]
notes for qual wk 1
quickie quiz - jot down definition of ethnography and culture
* positivism (quantitative, lab work, objective, truth is objective and bias free and value-neutral, develop generalizable rules for causation, do research from a distance, it’s all about the researcher)
* qualitative (naturalistic, interpretive, truth is socially constructed, get involved with participants, get them to talk about how [...]
thoughts on changing qualitative class for the spring
topics to include
writing - editing for wordiness, organizing paragraphs
working in a team
more readings to give them examples of how to use their data, good writing how to organize paper, and background & theory
that when doing interviews in a group everyone should ask all the questions - you might have 4 questions to ask for your [...]
videos for qualitative
youtube has a bunch of videos about qualitative reserach - here’s the link - some are about ethnography - some are about specific research projects - we should be able to find a couple ot watch out of hte list - http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=qualitative+research&search_type=
Image by trainman74 via Flickr
here’s a video of andy griffith telling about the first [...]
writing up data - notes from Harry Wolcott _Writing up Qualitative Research
hard part sometimes is just getting started
says can get started by writing a statement of purpose - a one sentence beginnning that starts “The purpose of this study is…” - the sentence probably will not make itinto the paper at the end but it will force you to think logically about what you’re doing
he suggests [...]
some pretty places in SL to check out
linden land - denby, longfellow (cg linden’s home is here - he has a tic tac toe game and the scripts to create it. There’s also a chess board, lots of really pretty architecture and plants
check out pooley - one of hte bits of land is shaped like a foot
some sl stuff - about educational sites in SL
check out Caerleon Isle
check out Sarah Nerd’s freebie paradise (NineInchNerds 156,120,24 — notice name all one word) - they have 3 skee ball games to play (gives you instructions and a launcher when you click on it - get to practice being in mousemode and wearing attachments), there’s a conect4 game for 2 people to [...]
some sl stuff - free clothes
search for freebies - get an interesting list
Deva Loka (47,31,54) - Freebies Dungeon - ots and lots of freebies - definintely M rated - dn’t want to see it, don’t look at the nekkid pictures. There are lotsof clothes - especially lots of guy clothes - jeans, tshirts. Also free textures, vehicles
NM C’s orientation [...]
things to do in sl
scavenger hunts - put up flags, have to get notecards, maybe do in pairs, can have tasks to do - kind of like ht etraining at orientation island - could be likke get a free tshirt and put it on, take a picture of you and your buddy doing some gesture
play rock paper scissors using [...]
