day 1 glit6757 producersof_edresearch

GLIT 6757 

Becoming Producers of Educational Research

Summer 2, 2013

Two major jobs for the week

• Complete a simple, basic computer command-related task• Document, analyse and write-up

the learning and interactions that take place while learning what the task means and how to do it

Documenting your group’s activity• Closely observe what’s going on and keep

fieldnotes (observed data)• Make note of the documents you use to help

you (written data)• Take photographs (observed data)• Make video and audio recordings (spoken data)• Screen recordings and screen grabs (observed

data)• Make note of the people you use to help you

(inside and outside your group)

Good fieldnotes are:

• As descriptively detailed as possible:–Mud maps of space layout etc.–Context descriptions–Verbatim dialogue

• As objective as possible (avoid interpretations as far as is possible)

Writing good field notes

• Develop your own shorthand• Include regular time stamps• Leave a wide right-hand margin

for notes• Ensure they’re legible for others• Detail, detail, detail

For example…

Not nearly enough detail.

We finally found a tutorial for line prompts. Yay!

Getting close.10:41am Stacey used Google.com to search for the phrase “command line prompt” + tutorial. The search returned 1million + results. We clicked on the third search return—David Baumgold.com/tutorials/command-line?#what-is—because Leanne had seen Baumgold’s website recommended on wikipedia entry for “command line prompt”. Leanne: “Hey, click on the third one. Baum-whats-

it. Stacey: Why that one?Leanne It was in the wikipedia bibliography.Stacey clicks on the URL and opens the page……..

Your task:

Use Windows command prompts to make your computer “do” something

Danger, Will Robinson!!

Do NOT run a command just to see what it does.

“Make sure you understand what the command is supposed to do first, especially is the command involves changing or removing files” (David Baumgold.com/tutorials/command-line?#what-is)

Never, ever key in:

rm ~rt /rmdir

Set up a Google Doc

And invite us to share it:

micheleknobel@gmail.com colin.lankshear@gmail.com