session 4 HW-TRANSANA

Transana is a product of the Digital Insight Project, and it is being developed with funding from the National Science Foundation through the National Partnership for Computational Infrastructure at the San Diego Supercomputer Center and the TalkBank Project at Carnegie Mellon University. Development is headquartered at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Transana is designed to facilitate the transcription and analysis of video data. It provides a way to view video, create a transcript, and link places in the transcript to frames in the video. It provides tools for identifying and organizing analytically interesting portions of videos, as well as for attaching keywords to those video clips. It also features database and file manipulation tools that facilitate the organization and storage of large collections of digitized video.

last homework

I have learned a lot of useful qualitative research methods from this course. The most loved one for me is the Zotero; honestly, I have not used all the methods taught in class, and all I have been using mostly is Zotero while working on literature review of my research. I learned refworks at the very first quater of my degree, but I could not fully understand how it works. However, this Zotero works perfect for me. Even it needs Firefox to operate, it is way worth to spend a minute to download it, and have a chance to be introduced to the whole lot different world from where I was typing all single references. The tools for analizing data seem so helpful to keep the data in effective way, and I could not be doubtful for them to be so useful for my data in the future.

Session 2 HW

Wiki: DiRT
I used DiRT, and this webside provides great convinient resource to researchers for findinng suitable digital research tools. Its directory classified by research activity and reviews make the website more efficient to researchers.

Collaborative Writing: Google docs
For collaborative writing, this Google Docs which I have used for other class is really efficient way for collaborative writing; it is easy to edit, save and share with team members. Additionally, people can work with this Docs at same time, and it actually shows others’ working process simultaneously. For example, if I am writing, and you open the documents at your home, you can see that I am writing something: moving cursor, typing, paste, cut, delete, etc; like online chatting. Moreover, it saves people time and effort of saving, opening, attaching and sending file of their work by email.

Concep Maps: Mindmeister
This toole is good for organizing research more in image than text, which sometimes helps to see at once and understand the connections.

Surveys: Survey Monkey
This is free online survey website and it helps researchers to conduct survey in convenient way, saving time and easy way to collect the data.

Notetaking/Bibliographic Managers :Zotero
This tool is easy to save references and manage them for future use. I can store information on articles and book with just one click and can organize things from my needs.