day 1 glit6757 producersof_edresearch
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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
