Why are you interested in synchronous online interviews?
I have worked on a number of projects where the research required me to interview people online, mostly using Skype or Elluminate. Most of this has been very intuitive but I sense that there is so much more I could be doing or doing better.
What are you most curious, concerned or intrigued about in regard to collecting data through online interviews?
I am interested in protocols, limits and efficiencies. Such interviews usually provide a lot of audio content which needs to be transcribed and then analysed. I have some strategies for this after-interview action but want to know how to be a better and more effective and efficient inrterviewer so that the data analysed in Nvivo is truly targetted when and if it needs to be.
Have you ever conducted an online interview or participated in one?
Yes, I have conducted many online or remote interviews as part of research and evaluation projects. Mostly over skype but would like move into doing more inworld in Second Life, Quest Atlantis and over chat and other community-based tools.
If you are designing or carrying out research, tell us about your area of research interest.
My current research interests lie with teachers, identity and teaching with virtual worlds and relatedly but quite separately online community management. Both research projects involve digital storytelling and case studies and knowledge sharing and at the heart of that lie interviews with people spread about the globe. These may involve individual interviews or groups in focus group like situations.
What do you hope to learn in or gain from this seminar?
I would like to start to formalise understandings and skills which to date have been largely intuitive and to develop a trajectory for honing my skills. I would like to look at other media particularly use of video. Have bought flip cams to explore this further.
Bronwyn Stuckey
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Really looking forward to this seminar and the dialog it will stimulate. Lots of homeowrk to do here in preparation - so I had better get ordering the book and reading. ~ Bron
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I found this very interesting - especially watching as it indexed different sets of information to create the final view. See attached doc for details
I searched on 3 names that I inhabit; Bronwyn Stuckey, Bron Stuckey, and Dr Bronwyn Stuckey. The first of these is my full name. The second is an identity that I have purposely been creating in my online work and research in virtual worlds, communities of practice and teacher professional development. The third is my academic title and used in face-to-face academic work.
One thing I already knew is that there is another Australian Dr Bronwyn Stuckey and she is a specialist male reproductive medicine. We have been confused by others before (her sister even skyped me to congratulate me on finally using 21st century tools). Alas her practice is more hands on than mine ;-) So hence the 'medicine' (and perhaps 'politics') highly represented in my totally non-medical profile.
On the surface it would seem that my goals for my purposely built identity are being realised although 'online' seems to rate very lowly for an identity I use nowhere else but online.
I am still pondering what to make of all this but wanted to share with you in case it was interesting for you too.
Bron
I found this very interesting - especially watching as it indexed different sets of information to create the final view. See attached doc for details
I searched on 3 names that I inhabit; Bronwyn Stuckey, Bron Stuckey, and Dr Bronwyn Stuckey. The first of these is my full name. The second is an identity that I have purposely been creating in my online work and research in virtual worlds, communities of practice and teacher professional development. The third is my academic title and used in face-to-face academic work.
One thing I already knew is that there is another Australian Dr Bronwyn Stuckey and she is a specialist male reproductive medicine. We have been confused by others before (her sister even skyped me to congratulate me on finally using 21st century tools). Alas her practice is more hands on than mine ;-) So hence the 'medicine' (and perhaps 'politics') highly represented in my totally non-medical profile.
On the surface it would seem that my goals for my purposely built identity are being realised although 'online' seems to rate very lowly for an identity I use nowhere else but online.
I am still pondering what to make of all this but wanted to share with you in case it was interesting for you too.
Bron
The work and writings of Jay Cross would have to be mentioned here and his content hub Informal Learning Flow. Lots to ponder there!
One of the contexts I work in is as a teacher developer in a 3D virtual world Quest Atlantis (QA). While teachers embark on a short formal online workshop to gain entry to QA, this workshop is also their passport to a much broader global community of educators using the program. The teacher community holds informal activities, events and unconferences to further share and develop professional knowledge. They are becoming a community of practice as we locate and associate and build ties across a mashup of tools inworld and Web2.0. You can see some of this starting to be pulled together on Visions of Quest Atlantis.
Why do we want to evaluate this? Teachers want and deserve recognition for their efforts in voluntary informal PD. I need to show that my role and the support offered is making a diffference (grant funded project). We need as researchers to better understand where our efforts are best placed.
~ Bron
Why do we want to evaluate this? Teachers want and deserve recognition for their efforts in voluntary informal PD. I need to show that my role and the support offered is making a diffference (grant funded project). We need as researchers to better understand where our efforts are best placed.
~ Bron