place objects around hte second life island for the students to pick up - hidden, make them use the camera feature, the take object function use their inventory
the one prof made them ride horses - he mentioned one called dreamhorse - copyable - they have to make it go and steer it - learning to [...]
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reading notes - in-depth interviews
not just talking - more active process to create meaning
good way to get exploratory, descriptive, explanatory data
can use alone or together with other methods both qual and quant
take less time to get data than observations/field work - get examples for thick description, get better understanding of a topic you don’t know much about
quant interviews - [...]
notes about analyzing observation data from hesse-biber & leavy
inductive process - you have lots of bits of data - have to figure out what htey mean
ethnography data analysis look at description - your notes are a view into a specific setting (all the people, the physical look and feel of the place, the activities)
your job - piece all the notes together to tell [...]
notes about collecting observation data from hesse-biber & leavy
collect data on an ongoing basis - in the field when possible, as soon as you get home otherwise
collecting and analyzing go on simultaneously (collection = write down our observations and ideas) & analysis (write down what you think is going on)
can’t watch everything - so ask what else is going on that you’re missing [...]
notes about observation from hesse-biber & leavy
complete observer
your identity as a research is hidden, don’t interact with people around you, just take notes/make video/sit behind one-way mirror
your study doesn’t interfere with what you’re observing, doesn’t change it
you can’t clarify anything tho, can’t ask questions about what you’re seeing while you’re seeing it so you dn’t know for sure thatyour interpretation is [...]
observation notes and ideas - for qual
Image via Wikipediaparticipant observation - “being there”, be a part of the social setting, firsthand knowledge, see behavior patterns, experience the unexpected (as well as expected), “make the strange familiar and the familiar strange” (erickson, 1973) which means understanding new stuff and questioning our assumptions about familiar stuff (ask why is stuff this way, what’s [...]
textbook notes - Shane
gotta decide pretty early on - what you want to find out a question, a topic
use multiple data sources
get emic perspectives (from the participant’s point of view, not just the researchers)
in naturalistic settings (not in a lab, but real world, where people normally hang out/interact)
gotta think - seems silly to say - but it’s not [...]
