Saturday, May 8, 2010

Studiocode

I recently learned about another video coding software called Studiocode. The one I linked to is specifically for the field of Education. I hear its pricey, but I can't find the price anywhere on the website (go figure). Anyway, it might be worth at least a glance!

Thursday, March 11, 2010

F4

Another transcription program shared by one of my students:

The transcription program I found can be found here http://www.audiotranskription.de/english/f4.htm. I like it because it is very simple, pressing F4 pauses and plays the audio file, pressing F5 rewinds in play by 3 seconds and F3 forwards by 3 seconds. Very quick and cut and dry. The program is called F4 and its free also an edition for video don't know anything about that version.

Thanks, Ramsey!

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Resources

I wanted to share a few resources that came up in class today.

Sophie- "Sophie Author allows users to create complex networked multimedia documents without specialized training." This is a tool created for researchers at USC and seems to have some potential for qualitative research. Thanks, Aaron for sharing!

Worldcat- This is the citation database that Zotero uses to locate articles. It has been helpful to me when OSU doesn't have the citation I need.

International Journal of Learning and Media- This is the new journal from MIT Press I mentioned today that has a section just for new media article formats (those that include multimedia, social media, etc.).

TAMS Analyzer- This is a software I came across that seems to work like Weft QDA, but it is made for macs! It's a very basic CAQDAS program and it's free. I haven't investigated this too much, but I thought I'd share.

Friday, January 1, 2010

Welcome Winter 2010 Students!

Welcome to Digital Tools for Qualitative Research! I look forward to having you in this class and having a chance to share some helpful tools as well as learning from you in the process. Please feel free to browse this site before class begins as it has evolved over the four quarters that I have been teaching it. If you click the label "EPL692" on the right hand side of the screen, you will find the course information, hardware/software you will need, and all five sessions for this course. We will also be going over this information on the first day of class. Please let me know if you already have experience in any of these areas and we can work out an alternative assignment in something more pertinent to your work. We are all tight on time and my ultimate goal is for this class to be useful to you. Here's to a great quarter!

We will take this survey on the first day of class:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PVKJQLN

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Erkan's Field Diary

This link was sent to me by Dr. Nespor. It is a comprehensive list of digital tools used by a (now) professor as he was writing his dissertation.

Erkan's Field Diary

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Welcome Fall 2009 Students!

Welcome to Digital Tools for Qualitative Research! I look forward to having you in this class and having a chance to share some helpful tools as well as learning from you in the process. Please feel free to browse this site before class begins as it has evolved over the three quarters that I have been teaching it. If you click the label "session" on the right hand side of the screen, you will see all five sessions for this course. Please let me know if you already have experience in any of these areas and we can work out an alternative assignment in something more pertinent to your work. We are all tight on time and my ultimate goal is for this class to be useful to you. Here's to a great quarter!

We will take this survey on the first day of class:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=uCYW_2bOZ84ruDN7yNhe9UEw_3d_3d

Monday, August 31, 2009

polleverywhere

A coworker at ODE sent me a link to this tool www.polleverywhere.com. It works like free clickers for the classroom. Students can text or use twitter to respond to questions as their answers appear on a projector screen before them. As far as qualitative research, or qualitative researchers, are concerned, I could see some potential for interesting conference presentations or data collection in a classroom or a small group interview, but as I know qualitative researchers are endlessly creative, I am sure they will be able to think of other uses for this tool.

One caveat is that the tool is only free for 30 users, and you must pay for anything beyond that.