QA-Interviews

Semester 1 (Week 8)

Theses are the important set of notes I took after watching the YouTube video at the link below on 14th November 2017.

Video Topic:  Qualitative Analysis of Interviews

Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRL4PF2u9XA

Phase 1 – Reading
(1) Quickly browse through all the transcripts, as a whole
(2) Make notes about your first impressions
(3) Read the transcripts again, one by one

Phase 2 – Coding or Indexing
Label relevant words, phrases, sentences, or sections
Labels will include actions, activities, concepts, differences, opinions, processes
Repeated, surprising, interesting, important parts of the interviews will be coded
Parts of the interview that refer to published reports or journal papers may be coded
Parts of the interview that relates to a concept or theory will be coded
I will be aiming to code for conceptualisation of underlying patterns

Phase 3 – Decide which codes are important and create categories by amalgamating codes
Create new codes by combining two or more codes
Create categories or theme by amalgamating codes
Disregard codes that I now deem to be irrelevant from Phase 2

Phase 4 – Label categories, decide the most relevant categories and decide how they are connected to one another

Phase 5 – Create a hierarchy amongst the categories
Display using a mindmap or concept map.

Phase 6 – Write up your results
Under the heading ‘Results’, describe the categories and how they are connected
Under the heading ‘Discussion’, write out your interpretation and discuss your results
Interpret the results in the light of results from similar previous published studies, theories or concepts from your field, other relevant aspects

Suggested Reading:

Alan Bryman’s book: “Social Research Methods” published by Oxford University Press
Steiner Kvale’s and Svend Brinkmann’s book “Interviews: Learning the Craft of Qualitative Research Interviewing” published by SAGE.

M2-Week 8-Home

The following is some research and development work I carried out this week to get rid of the ugly looking page and post titles that appear by default in WordPress:

WordPress(Suppress Page Title)

WordPress: Hide Page Title or Post Title on a Case by Case Basis

WordPress: Hide Page Title or Post Title on a Case by Case Basis

Step 1 – Find the Title Class Name in your browser.
(1) In your browser (say Firefox), right-click on page.
(2) Choose View Page Source from the menu.
(3) Click Edit_Find in your browser.
(4) Type <h1 class=”entry-title”>Home</h1> in the Search Edit Box at the bottom of your screen.
Note: Replace ‘Home’ by the name of the particular page whose title you wish to suppress.

Step 2 – Find the Page or Post ID
(5) Having found class=”entry-title”, look at the entry article id = “post-214” two lines above this.
Note: The number 214 is the number of this particular page. Other pages will have different numbers.

Step 3 – Insert Code into Stylesheet
(6) In WordPress, click Appearance_Editor.
(7) Click Stylesheet (style.css) in the bottom right corner of your screen.
(8) At the very bottom of the stylesheet, enter the following code:
.page-id-214 .entry-title {display: none;}
Note: The number 214 is the number of this particular page. Other pages will have different numbers.

entry-title
<h1 class=”entry-title”>Home</h1>

post-214
<article id=”post-214″ class=”post-214 page type-page status-publish hentry”>

.page-id-214 .entry-title {display: none;}

WordPress (Suppress “Proudly powered by WordPress)

Step 4 – Insert Code into Stylesheet
(1) In WordPress, click Appearance_Editor.
(2) Click Stylesheet (style.css) in the bottom right corner of your screen.
(3) At the very bottom of the stylesheet, enter the following code:

.site-info {
display : none;
}

FOR POSTS:

The CSS code for Posts is similar, but it’s not the same. Here’s an example for Posts:

#post-1773 .entry-title {display: none;}

The following text was originally on my Home page:

This is the ePortfolio and Blog of Gerard Kilkenny, First Year Student (No. D15128959)This is the ePortfolio and Blog of Gerard Kilkenny, First Year Student (No. D15128959)

M2-Week 8-Class

Instructional Design & eAuthoring Module (Week 8)

The following is a reflection on the Tuesday morning class that took place on 13th December 2016 from 10:00 to 13:00 using Gibbs Reflective Cycle.

Description

Each of the three groups gave a presentation on their Storyboards and eLearning Artefacts.  My group, The Compostivists, were last to present.

The first group gave an oral presentation without any digital backup resources.  Their project was in the are of emotional intelligence and was still in its embroyonic stages.  It appeared to be an ambitious project whose aim was to improve how bus drivers related to their passengers through the use of scenarios.

The second group, The Northsiders, created a website with multimedia elements (graphics, video, audio) whose aim was to develop a cultural awareness of their surroundings for young people living in the north side of Dublin.

The third group, The Compostivists, created a storyboard (in Microsoft PowerPoint) and an eLearning Lesson (in Adobe Captivate 9) with multimedia elements (graphics, video, audio) whose aim was to teach young people about composting.

Feelings

Evaluation

Here is the evaluation that my group received from Damian Gordon / class peers via an email from Damian on 13/12/16:

I like:
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  • the use of Captivate
  • the work around the storyboards
  • the emphasis on recursive drafting process during development
  • starting off with images and developing descriptive text and editing back into images
  • excellent storyboard – felt I could have developed an appropriate resource from it
  • great insight into using Captivate, thanks for that. And good insight into ambition vs reality
  • content/knowledge within artefact
  • powerpoint images
  • really clear and well-planned resource
  • including the science was brilliant. You made what could have been a boring subject interesting and interactive
  • the visuals (storyboard and main artefact)
  • the idea of the project: it’s very clearly a prominent topic with climate change. 

I would like:
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  • perhaps more voices in the Captivate artefact
  • to see an easier and quicker navigation system
  • to see this embedded somewhere easier to access.

Analysis

Conclusions

Personal Action Plans