Janet Salmons

Welcome Asako!

Librarians play an important role in any research project. Stocking books that provide background in online research, as well as those with findings those researchers discovered, is beneficial.

Your idea, off the top of your head, is a good one. In addition to verbal questions and responses, you could use a shared whiteboard allowing the research participant to diagram or mindmap key concepts. Using the web tour, participants could show you examples of their Personal Learning Envrionments.Or, you could show one or more example (online, media, etc.) and ask them how their experiences compare and contrast with the example. I will be showing how to do use some of these approaches when we meet in Elluminate.

I hope these ideas spark your imagination!

Janet

Welcome Jo Ann,

I hope that we will have the opportunity to discuss particular issues about guiding students and working as committee members.

Janet

Welcome Nalin!

Do you have any suggestions about ways researchers can communicate in order to "understand your customer(respondent) needs and wants first"?

Janet

Welcome Bronwyn,

Sounds like you have had some experience-- just curious, could you say more about "some good and bad things during online interviews"?

Thanks for joining the discussion!

Janet 

Hello everyone,

I'd like to demonstrate and discuss some ways to use online tools for online interviews. We can look at the benefits and challenges different kinds of tools offer, and consider implications for research designs.

I am planning one session using Elluminate, a multi-channel meeting space, and one using Vidyo CoroCall, a desktop videoconferencing system. I will post more about these tools later.

Of course, with our global group scheduling is a challenge in itself! Depending on your responses, we may offer more than one session in each tool to accomodate as many people as possible.

Please use these polls to convey your preferences for 1/25 (Elluminate) and 1/29 (CoroCall):

January 25 http://www.doodle.com/yfiym2wnpbm6uxp5
January 29 http://www.doodle.com/7rqephmuzha99hk8

Please indicate your choice by Thursday the 21st so we can make arrangements and get the word out about the schedule.

Thanks!

Janet