Slides from a short seminar presentation with education faculty staff at Murdoch University about my ethnographic work using the iPhone and other ICTs for data collection, collation and (re)presentation.

1. Good Looking with Technology The iPhone and ethnographic research Are you tweeting this? Penelope Coutas EdD Candidate Murdoch University p.coutas@murdoch.edu.au March, 2010

2. Background to the study

3. Background to the study To explore teacher and learner perceptions of the impact of ICTs for learning and teaching Languages What is going on here?

4. Background to the study There must be something more interesting for social scientists to do with their computers than coding data (Mason & Dicks, 2001, p. 445)

5. Looking forward: The Horizon Report http://www.nmc.org/horizon

6. Looking forward: The Horizon Report http://www.nmc.org/horizon

7. Looking forward: The Horizon Report http://www.nmc.org/horizon

8. Methods Document (analysis) Misc. Focus Group Interviews Classroom Observations Interviews

9. Methods Document (analysis) Misc. Focus Group Interviews Classroom Observations Interviews

10. Looking with technologies

11. Data in the cloud http://www.exploringthehyper.net

13. Working with children

14. Department of Education: new ethics process

15. Collection of audio-visual data

16. Storage of data

17. Use of audio-visual data

19. Working with children

20. Department of Education: new ethics process

21. Collection of audio-visual data

22. Storage of data

23. Use of audio-visual data

24. Re-use of dataWiles, R., Coffey, A., Robison, J., & Prosser, J. (2010, January). Ethical regulation and visual methods: making visual research impossible or developing good practice? Retrieved from http://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/812/

25. Looking with notes

26. Looking with notes

27. Looking with a camera

28. Looking with a camera iWitnessing or eye witnessing?

29. Looking with the iPhone

30. Ethical issues: What happened? http://www.slideshare.net/pcoutas

31. Use of audio-visual data

32. Data analysis

33. Choose your own ethnography

34. iPhone app development Developed by 2 teams of ICT333 students at Murdoch

35. iPhone app development Notes sync with Omeka database and carry metadata across

36. iPhone app development

37. Good looking with technology Multi-modal research is not simply a mosaic. Instead … we can see it as a new multi-semiotic form in which meaning is produced through the inter-relationships between and among different media and modes. (Dicks & Mason, 1999, p. 78) Ethnographers do not describe what they see, they see what they know how to describe. (Wolcott, 1999, p. 101) Computer Engineer barbie is pretty good looking! http://www.barbie.com

38. Good looking with technology Should we use the tools we are most comfortable with, or experiment with new ones so that we’re forced to look and see in different ways?

39. Good looking with technology Should we use the tools we are most comfortable with, or experiment with new ones so that we’re forced to look and see in different ways? One quickly realises that, as important as fieldwork is to accomplishing ethnography, it is the mindwork (and the accompanying deskwork) that goes with it that is most critical. Ethnography is more than method. (Wolcott, 1999, p. 66)

40. Good looking with technology Should we use the tools we are most comfortable with, or experiment with new ones so that we’re forced to look and see in different ways? One quickly realises that, as important as fieldwork is to accomplishing ethnography, it is the mindwork (and the accompanying deskwork) that goes with it that is most critical. Ethnography is more than method. (Wolcott, 1999, p. 66) Hypermedia ethnography is a valuable and effective methodology for qualitative research that allows for richness, transparency and flexibility in both the research process and the research product. (This is also the problem).

41. Credits Dicks, B., & Mason, B. (1999). Ethnographic Hypermedia Environment. Retrieved March 12, 2008, from http://www.cf.ac.uk/socsi/hyper/ht99/EHE.html Johnson, Laurence F., Levine, Alan, and Smith, Rachel S. (2007). 2007 Horizon Report. Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium. Mason, B., & Dicks, B. (2001). Going Beyond the Code: The Production of Hypermedia Ethnography. Social Science Computer Review, 19(4), 445-457. Retrieved from http://ssc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/19/4/445 Wiles, R., Coffey, A., Robison, J., & Prosser, J. (2010, January). Ethical regulation and visual methods: making visual research impossible or developing good practice?Retrieved from http://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/812/ Wolcott, H. F. (1999). Ethnography: A Way of Seeing. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.