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=Welcome to Qualipedia=

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In this space you will collaboratively create a qualitative data analysis repository of information that you feel is relevant for people to know in your position i.e. someone with an introductory background in qualitative research who is interested in the options in qualitative data analysis.

In the analysis project, as a class, you can divide up how you want to manage the workload and responsibilties. While I am presenting some guidelines here, if you feel that during the course of the project the guidelines need to be modified and/or reconstructed, feel free to do so and inform me when you do. Just make sure, that your work is aligned with whatever guidelines you choose for this wiki analysis project.

To begin, here is how I visioned the wikispace to be after you complete the project.

=Guidelines for Qualitative Data Analysis Wiki Project= 1. Identify a clear purpose for this project. Currently, the purpose of this project that I envision is to create a repository of information that would be helpful for people new to qualitative data analysis. To this end, the qualipedia space will contain various approaches to qualitative data analysis, a basic description of that approach, how it is taken up in qualitative research, what might it look like in representation, and where can people go for more detailed information (web, journal, and texts as sources). Feel free to use the [|Useful Links] page on my [|website] for your searches.

2. Your first set of entries could be a potential identification of the kinds of analysis that you think would be relevant for people to know. You do not need to stick to these analysis by the end of the semester but it may be a good place to begin your thinking. Inductive analysis is the most common form of qualitative data analysis approaches and since all of you will be doing an inductive analysis project, it would be good to create resource pages for various approaches to inductive analysis. You can use the course resources and resources outside of the course.

3. Your second set of entries could be adding/modifying more information on the wikispaces as your knowledge and needs become clear during the course of this semester. The information you add would directly reflect on what you might think would be useful for someone to know who is in the exact position as you are, since you can only speak for your position with certain level of authority. This would also be a time to look at how you will divide up data analysis approaches like performance ethnography, poetic analysis, feminist analysis, etc, to include some resistant practices in the qualipedia wiki sources.

4. Your third and final set of entries would require that you collaborate with each other and create a polished piece of information resource for the goals that you established during the course of the semester. Are your contributions aligned with that goal? Did you modify the goal? Did you modify the contents according to the goals you set? All such collaboration can be done online within your own wiki pages on the left or you can create work pages for data analysis and then put up a final data analysis page.
 * Keep in mind that these are very broad general guidelines and as a class we can and may alter them as it suits our learning needs.**


 * Therefore in summary**


 * Define goals for this space
 * Define initial responsibilities
 * Start with Inductive analysis
 * Include resistant approaches
 * Include scholars, how the method is implemented, and what it looks like when represented, with references to useful information

=Guidelines for Tracking Individual Work= 1. Whenever you submit anything to any collaborative wikipages here, cut and paste it onto your own page with a date on it so that I will know that this is what you have contributed for grading purposes.

2. There is also a discussion link at the top of the page and I encourage you to use the links to discuss posts, approaches, your own questions, preferences, and other issues that come up during the course of the semester.

=Future Directions= With that in mind, have a great semester and I will continue to reflect on my own page the process of integrating wiki in this class and if anyone wants to collaborate for a journal publication at the end of this class regarding wiki integration, I welcome the opportunity to work with you and we can work on doubled voices from the student's and the instructor's perspectives. This may also lend well to conference presentations and we can think about that some more as we go through the class.

Here are some resources about wikis and how they are used in education in order to get your thinking started.

[|General information about wikis]

Lamb, B. (2004) //Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not.// EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 39, no. 5 (September/October 2004): 36-48. Retrieved December 3, 2004, from the World Wide Web: [|http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm0452.asp.]