Janet Salmons

In the Readers’ Garden http://tinyurl.com/yl886ch

Designing Research with In-World Interviews
February 18^th at 6 SLT (SLT=PST)

Handout is online so feel free to share: http://www.vision2lead.com/Interviewavatars.pdf

Session 2 will be re-scheduled since a new professional commitment has emerged! I will post new dates or events on my website and on twitter /einterview.

Interviews with Avatars:
Online Interview Research in Second Life

In the Readers’ Garden

· Session 1: Designing Research with In-World Interviews
February 18^th at 6 SLT (SLT=PST)

· Session 2: Planning and Conducting Interviews In-World
February 25^th at 6 SLT (SLT=PST)

I’ll share some of the models, approaches and researchers’ experiences included in Online Interviews in Real Time. We’ll consider unique issues and dilemmas involved with scholarly interviews in world. Come share your curiosity—and your experiences!

See the attachment

A few more things...

• Today's Chronicle of Higher Education reported on a report "Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication: An Exploration of Faculty Values and Needs in Seven Disciplines." The one point from my quick read is that while researchers may use primary digital sources-- and interviews fall into that category-- when it comes to publication peer reviewed journals are the first choice. I agree that peer review is if anything more important in this era. (By the way, my book went through a rigorous double-blind review.)
• Second, in my book I did not get into data analysis, besides some notes in the appendix. On one hand I thought that once data is collected, the source from online/offline mattered little to its analysis. And, it just seemed outside the scope of this book. If you were interested in the visual research in Elluminate and wondered about analyzing that type of data, you might like to know that you can use Elluminate's companion product "Publish" you can create an MP4 (or other format) file from your interview, and then use NVIVO or other data analysis software that accepts video files.

Hello everyone,

We have come to the end of our seminar. I will still post the link to the Vidyo Corocall demo and discussion of videoconferencing in interviews. I think you'll be interested to see this presentation- it is an interesting tool, and the ideas about designing and planning for videoconferenced interviews would apply regardless of the tool you choose.

I have enjoyed this seminar and appreciate your thoughtful and thought-provoking comments. I hope it has been useful-- whether you participated or were a lurker/listener.

I am continuing my virtual book tour, if you are interested: next Friday the 5th I will be presenting at Nellie's "Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) " conference-- see http://www.integrating-technology.com/course/view.php?id=139 . Then, as posted, I have two presentations in Second Life about interviews in that environment. I am doing two live presentations at the Chicago EDUCAUSE conference and at the Qualitative Research in Managemenet conference in Albuquerque. I'll post other opportunities on Twitter and my website (/einterview and www.vision2lead.com). Keep in touch: you can contact me at einterview@vision2lead.com.

All the best,

Janet

PS If you have any really nice things to say about the book, you can send comments to Stephanie Adams at Sage [Stephanie.Adams@sagepub.com] and/or post comments on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Online-Interviews-Real-Janet-Salmons/dp/141296895X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264871646&sr=8-1). Thanks