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You know what else is rubbish for the DS... My Word Coach - and My French Coach too. Word Coach is just boring but I thought I would learn a bit more French with the French Coach - but why doesn't it say the words or get you to say them so that you would learn pronunciation??? The DS has speakers and a mic surely that is what they are for??? Instead there is just really annoying music...
But ChessMaster is brilliant I'm so hooked - I'm playing it for hours every night before bed, then my brain is too active too sleep!!!
Hi hannah, no I'm not analysing interviews actually - initially I used it to analyse some open-ended answers from a questionnaire - so actually I didn't have that much data and I probably could have done it manually! But my next phase will be analysing text in learning journals so it'll be way too much information to tackle manually. Boy am I looking forward to that Good luck with whatever you decide to do!
I know how you feel badhaircut I am going throught the exact same thing with a class at the moment. Talking is not the problem but blank stares are unfortunately. I thought they might 'come out of their shells' after a couple of weeks but I had the class for the third time yesterday and it's just getting worse.
It is especially confusing because I taught the same class last year and it went great - everyone got involved in discussions and people actually said to me that the class was really interesting! Oh well I guess that teaches me a lesson - what works with one group may fall flat on its face with another group. I don't know what I'm going to do next week
The only thing I would say is that some people think it is an 'automated analysis' - including one of my sups - and it's NOT... you still do all the analysis yourself it is just the coding etc. that is made easier with NVivo. I suppose you might see trends more easily because of the way data is organised but you do still have to do that analysis by yourself...
If there are any NVivo workshops near where you are maybe you could go to one - there was a workshop here and it was a great introduction to the software.
Hope that helps
Yes, I have used it... I think it's a great tool, I can't imagine doing that type of analysis in a totally manual way!!!
I would say basically what it does is make coding of data very easy (just a click-drag) - you can then browse through data that you have coded to a certain 'category'. Also you can annotate data, put in links and search/query data. That is the extent of what I have done, there is a whole other section to do with modelling that I haven't even gone near yet!
I am writing notes on everything from now on... I just spent the day trying to figure out which articles from a big pile I have read and which ones I haven't - had no memory of most of them initially and then realised halfway through 'oh yeah I HAVE read this'
Methinks this was the list you were talking about Olivia... it's part of (or affiliated somehow with) this site...
http://www.findaphd.com/students/life.asp
I love the "I did a PhD and did not go mad" one... and the link is broken so I just googled it... so here is a working link!
http://public.randomnotes.org/richard/PhDtalk.html
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