gcrd6353 seminar 1

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Literacy & New Technologies

GEDU 6353.80/81Research Seminar in Curriculum Studies

Colin Lankshear & Michele Knobel

Slideshow available here:

www.slideshare.net/netgrrrl

+Focus of this course

Learning to “be” qualitative researchers

Understanding that qualitative research is a logically-ordered, systematic process

Learning to report research outcomes in an academic manner

+The logic of research

p. 29 of textbook

+ Nature of this course

1. Work in self-selected groups/teams to produce a digital media artifact and collect detailed data on what transpires.

2. Collectively write an academic research report that discusses the process and experience of producing your digital media artifact in terms of one or two key concepts from current, relevant theory and research pertaining to “new literacies”.

+In short….

You will be learning to be(come) teacher researchers by

(1) producing a digital media artifact and

(2) systematically analysing data you have collected in the light of the idea of engaging in new literacies.

+Typical DIY Media projects

Team blog

Collaborative wiki

Participating in a social network

Podcasting

Stop motion animation

Music video editing (incl. anime music video remixing)

Remixing music

Participating in a fan fiction site

Photosharing (or video sharing)

Other (e.g., creating an app, movie trailer remixes, flash animation, Second Life machinima)

+ Documenting your project: collecting spoken, written and observed data Observed data: your fieldnotes, your

photographs/videos of the group working, screen grabs/captures, etc.

Spoken data: Verbatim recording or documentation of what people said (can be written down or audio-recorded)

Written (extant) data: Online tutorials, helpful websites, how-to videos, troubleshooting, discussion boards, text-focussed screen grabs

+ Writing good fieldnotesFieldnotes Preliminary

patterns/hunches/analyses

I located a useful website that helped with converting files 

Tuesday11:03amI searched with google using the phrase “file conversion” and located a blog (http://everydayliteracies.blogspot.com) that recommended a free online service called Zamzar (zamzar.com). Zamzar is fully online which means I was able to ……

BAD EXAMPLE  Conceptual: Accessing distributed expertise a la Jenkins’ “participatory culture” Technical stuff: media files need to be compatible with the editing software Other: Web 2.0 – free software service located entirely online (cf., shift to webtop from desktop)

+Working collaboratively online Google Docs (docs.google.com)

Scholar Google (scholar.google.com)

Academia.edu (search for research area to find papers & books)

Crocodoc (crocodoc.com; useful for collaboratively marking up pdf documents online)

+Using Google Docs: http://docs.google.com

+Using Google Docs

+Using Google Docs

+Using Google Docs

+Share your Google Docs with Us

Use a Google doc to collaboratively write your research report

Add us (with editing rights) to your doc so that we can give you timely feedback on your writing: micheleknobel@gmail.com colin.lankshear@gmail.com

+Using Google Scholar

http://scholar.google.com

+Using Google Scholar

+Using Google Scholar

+Using Google Scholar

NB: Double quotes around a phrase searches for phrase

+By the end of today’s session

Email the names and eddresses of your group’s members to Colin & Michele, along with your DIY Media project focus

Have set up a Google Document for your group—where you will write/post your academic paper in progress. Check everyone in your group can access it. Share this doc (along with editing rights) with Colin and Michele (micheleknobel@gmail.com & colin.lankshear@gmail.com)

+Dates for next two seminars

Second seminar: 30th May (Truro) 31st May (Halifax)

Third seminar: 20th June (Truro) 21st June (Halifax)

+Before we meet again….

Your DIY media project should definitely be well underway, if not close to finished

Your data collection should be well underway. Bring what you can with you to our next session—we’d like to focus on analysing your data, looking ahead to your final write-up

Revisit set and recommended readings—along with additional texts that you find yourselves—and read more purposefully (e.g., focussing on pertinent concepts etc.)