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toc =For December 6=
 * meet at chili's at 5:00 pm at Poplar and Perkins
 * submit final paper by the 11th for Pass or Fail grade. Failure to submit will result in an incomplete
 * complete wikis by December 7th

=For November 22=
 * complete the readings
 * write a reflective piece on both the readings (individually or combined)


 * Address the following in the reflective page**
 * what stood out to you in the readings?
 * what could you tell from the way data was represented?
 * how does it inform your understanding of feminist methodology?
 * Read your peers' page and offer some thoughts and comments that shows critical engagement with your peer's reflection beyond me too, I agree, or a :)

For the next two weeks try to flesh out the QI abstract page with your 150 words abstract for whatever panel you are on. If you are not attending, then just do an abstract for 150 words on any topic of your choice. Anita - please follow-up on the t-shirt thing as it is critical to our academic success by the next time we meet. :)


 * Change of Due Dates in the Syllabus**

Step twelve: Writing an Ethnography (EI) Wolcott, H.F. (2001). //Writing up Qualitative Research.// Newbury Park: Sage. Part 2, pp. 109-184 Computer assisted data analysis Flesh out QI proposals and submit
 * November 29 Writing Up Qualitative Research and Data Analysis**
 * Second Data Analysis Project Due

December 6** **Meet at Chilli's at Poplar and Perkins** Reflections - for the good of the group Wrap up - where do we go from here
 * Submit final paper if you like but you dont have to**

Content of wiki must include a polished repository of information on the topic of your choice dont go broad. keep a narrow focus and go in-depth offer scholarly citations offer multiple perspectives offer thought provoking ideas as well if appropriate
 * December 7 - Final set of wikis due.**


 * December 11 - Final paper due. Submit by email**

=For November 15th=
 * Bring your own data so we can work on the computer
 * Think about doing an alternate form of analysis with your data in the computer
 * Think about what steps you might take to discover cultural themes

=For November 1st=
 * the due date for the inductive analysis has been moved to Monday October 29th by midnight
 * post as a team on your team wiki page what you need to do by the end of the semester for your wiki project
 * post as a team on your team wiki page what you want to do by next week for your second set of wiki entries
 * post a polished version of your wiki entry lined up with your proposed goals for your second set of wikis
 * bring your interview data so that we can use your interview data for working on poetic analysis

=For October 25th=
 * finish your inductive analysis assignment
 * feel free to get in touch with me if you need any help
 * Phenoms - its an exciting day for you - you can help with the class activities

=For October 18th=
 * bring your own data to work on if possible
 * at least have one interview done by now
 * if you pay for transcription, make sure you listen to the data as you go through the transcribed text and make notes of your thoughts as you listen to your data and go through the transcribed text
 * be prepared to talk about narrative analysis
 * be prepared to conduct narrative analysis using NVivo (I can walk you through this)
 * Think about how you can create a student organization for qualitative dissertation writers or people who are interested in qualitative methods.



=For October 11th=
 * Post your taxonomic analysis on your personal wikipages in outline form
 * Complete data inventory assignment (feel free to email me if you need me to look over it)
 * Complete readings for grounded theory as you will be asked to act as an expert in one of the chapters. Karen, Gary, and Jennifer can identify with this activity. It was the press conference activity we did in class this summer
 * Bring your own data if you have any to look at and analyze. We will work with NVivo again.

=For October 4th=
 * BRING THE DATA PIECES THAT YOU WERE WORKING ON RE: ALEX MANN IN CLASS***

Wiki dialogues
Make sure you engage in dialogues during the week about your wiki project and for those structure lovers in the class, I am hoping that this engagement in dialogue occurs over the period of the week instead of on Wednesday 5 minutes before class. :) I know that will not happen! :)

Domain Analysis and Interpretation
1. Create a domain analysis worksheet based on your photo elicitation and poetry data of Alex's work where you represent semantic relationships as
 * X is a kind of Y - strict inclusion
 * X is a place in Y, X is a part of Y - spatial
 * X is a result of Y, X is a cause of Y - cause-effect
 * X is a reason for doing Y - rationale
 * X is a place for doing Y - location for action
 * X is used for Y - function
 * X is a way to do Y - Means-end
 * X is a step (stage) in Y - Sequence
 * X is an attribute (characteristic) of Y - Attribution


 * **For example: Listening to music is a reason to live (X is a reason for doing Y - rationale)**

Frame your domain analysis with the included terms, semantic relationship, and the cover term as explained on p. 115 of Spradley's Ethnographic Interview.

2. Write a small paragraph of what meanings you are able to make of Alex as a person/writer based on your domain analysis on your personal wiki page.

Data Analysis
We will work on NVivo to look at data. You can either bring your own data or we can work with the photo elicited data of Alex after we discuss data analysis in the first half of the class.

=For September 27th=
 * Expand your field notes TONIGHT!! **and post them** before next class** on your personal pages on wiki
 * Make sure that you list the research question of your observational activity on top so that it gives you the focus
 * Create a narrative (tell it in a story form as if you are creating an understanding around the topic listed in your research question, in other words, responding to the question using empirical story telling as a tool)
 * Now what is empirical story telling you ask?
 * Well comrades its about telling the story of your observations integrated with your personal impressions and weaved together in a way where the reader can see what you were seeing while reading the meanings, interpretations, hunches, reactions you had of those observations. So use tentative language like
 * it seems
 * it reminds me
 * use metaphors
 * similies
 * analogies
 * it seems
 * it reminds me
 * use metaphors
 * similies
 * analogies
 * Describe the context of your observation
 * Where were you situated in that context?
 * Describe choices you made in terms of focusing your observations - weave them all in the story as if you are a documentary reporter
 * After you finish with your narrative critically reflect on what questions you might have of the data that you recorded? What questions do you have of the method? Where might be silences in your data that you would like to probe if you had more time? What were you able to learn from this process that you can use in future observation exercises?
 * Once you completed your observation field notes, narrative, and critical reflection, look for other people's approaches and comment on how it informs you, and how it compares to the approaches you had taken and challenges that you had to work with during the activity
 * Class time with laptop cart on brainstorming around wiki projects

=For September 20th, as discussed on September 13th= Hi everyone I noticed some of you posted on your personal pages on the wikispaces and some of you still havent. Those of you havent, this is what needs to be on the wiki posts

1. from the in-depth interview - Review In-depth interview video clip on simulated case study and write a wiki reflection on how knowledge was created and the types of questions that prompted such production of knowledge. Can you categorize those questions? (This was supposed to be the entry done last week)

2. for this week - review all the three interviews (in-depth, feminist, and phenomenological) and consider what aspects of those interviews can you see working in your project?

And last but not least click on the [|Observation link] and go through the pages and just think about
 * how you might manage your fieldnotes and w
 * hat strategies you would take to manage your fieldnotes based on sample field notes, f
 * ield notes tips, etc and
 * other data management documents

that I have on there. I have now added many documents in the handouts section of your course. Check them out when you have a moment. They can be very useful tools in terms of thinking about your research, designing your research, interviews, and general approaches to qualitative research. I realize that even though you took Intro, it still helps to repeat some information and having handouts that you can go back to might help you if you forgot some of that stuff we did in the intro class. I live and breathe this stuff, but I am sure there are other things going on in your life other than qual methods :). So I thought posting some handouts that would be helpful in thinking about your qualitative research design might alleviate anxieties around that area.

Also, check out the front page for announcements for upcoming Ed Research and Ed Psych talks. Thats all for now and I will see you tonight. We will meet at the class first and discuss our observation strategies, practice taking fieldnotes, and then go malling. At the (Oakcourt) mall you will observe for 20 minutes and then meet at the food court and we can debrief about your experiences as a stalker ooops sorry I meant qualitative participant observer:)