1.
GLIT 6757
Becoming Producers of
Educational Research
Summer 2, 2013

2.
Two major jobs for the week
• Complete a simple, basic
computer command-related task
• Document, analyse and write-up
the learning and interactions that
take place while learning what the
task means and how to do it

3.
Documenting your group’s activity
• Closely observe what’s going on and keep
fieldnotes (observed data)
• Make note of the documents you use to help
you (written data)
• Take photographs (observed data)
• Make video and audio recordings (spoken
data)
• Screen recordings and screen grabs (observed
data)
• Make note of the people you use to help you
(inside and outside your group)

4.
Good fieldnotes are:
• As descriptively detailed as possible:
–Mud maps of space layout etc.
–Context descriptions
–Verbatim dialogue
• As objective as possible (avoid
interpretations as far as is possible)

5.
Writing good field notes
• Develop your own shorthand
• Include regular time stamps
• Leave a wide right-hand margin
for notes
• Ensure they’re legible for others
• Detail, detail, detail

6.
For example…
Not nearly enough detail.
We finally found a tutorial for
line prompts. Yay!
Getting close.
10:41am Stacey used Google.com to search for
the phrase “command line prompt” + tutorial. The
search returned 1million + results. We clicked on
the third search return—David
Baumgold.com/tutorials/command-line?#what-
is—because Leanne had seen Baumgold’s website
recommended on wikipedia entry for “command
line prompt”.
Leanne: “Hey, click on the third one. Baum-whats-
it.
Stacey: Why that one?
Leanne It was in the wikipedia bibliography.
Stacey clicks on the URL and opens the page……..

7.
Your task:
Use Windows command
prompts to make your
computer “do” something

8.
Danger, Will Robinson!!
Do NOT run a command just to see
what it does.
“Make sure you understand what the
command is supposed to do first, especially
is the command involves changing or
removing files”
(David Baumgold.com/tutorials/command-
line?#what-is)

9.
Never, ever key in:
rm ~rt /
rmdir

10.
Set up a Google Doc
And invite us to share it:
micheleknobel@gmail.com
colin.lankshear@gmail.com