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 [...]
