Hi all, I have changed my research plan direction. It's still instant messaging reference service. But it takes the form of a comparative case study. You may view it below. If it does not work, here is the link for download.
Monday, August 4, 2008
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Individual Assignment - Poon Wai Lan, Maria (Text Version)
Title:
A case study of Teachers' Perception on ICT implementation in a Primary School.
Research Questions:
1. How do teachers perceive the use of ICT in teaching and learning?
2. How does teacher professional development affect teachers' perception?
3. How school leadership affect teachers' perception?
4. How does school culture affect teachers' perception?
Participants:
A aided primary school will select and six teachers who taught different subjects will invite to participate.
Significance of the study:
The significance of the study is to provide some possible suggestions for educators to implement any new policies in schools in the future. Also the findings may help the teachers, schools and policy makers regarding the implementation to support change in schools.
Data Collected and Analyzed:
Use multiple-data-collection methods and the data will collect from three sources.
1. Document analysis
- including the school IT plans and minutes of IT meetings
-leaflets and circular from EDB
2. Interviews
-use semi-structured interview and ask open-ended questions
3. Observations
-collect observation data from staff meetings and IT committee meetings
-formal and informal observations at the school site such as classrooms and computer rooms
Data Analysis
Data will be triangulated with information gathered from interviews, observations and documental data.
A case study of Teachers' Perception on ICT implementation in a Primary School.
Research Questions:
1. How do teachers perceive the use of ICT in teaching and learning?
2. How does teacher professional development affect teachers' perception?
3. How school leadership affect teachers' perception?
4. How does school culture affect teachers' perception?
Participants:
A aided primary school will select and six teachers who taught different subjects will invite to participate.
Significance of the study:
The significance of the study is to provide some possible suggestions for educators to implement any new policies in schools in the future. Also the findings may help the teachers, schools and policy makers regarding the implementation to support change in schools.
Data Collected and Analyzed:
Use multiple-data-collection methods and the data will collect from three sources.
1. Document analysis
- including the school IT plans and minutes of IT meetings
-leaflets and circular from EDB
2. Interviews
-use semi-structured interview and ask open-ended questions
3. Observations
-collect observation data from staff meetings and IT committee meetings
-formal and informal observations at the school site such as classrooms and computer rooms
Data Analysis
Data will be triangulated with information gathered from interviews, observations and documental data.
Friday, July 11, 2008
Individual Assignment - Ngan, Irene
(Text only version)
Title of the study:
New multi-platform communication design for libraries
Significance:
This case study uses a project to develop a human-computer multi-platform design to draw audiences into a community project by providing them with the concept and skills to capture stories of their communities such as Wanchai, Shamshuipo.
To enable audiences to examine their relationship with the library and their role in the preservation of cultural heritage
To study the impact on library services when members of the community take a proactive role in creating content as integral artifacts of the library collections.
Participants:
Participants will be members of the community who are interested in sharing their cultural knowledge to audiences via the library.
Promotional plan will be launched to the community and interested parties can join the project by open enrollment. If the number of applicants is more than expected, a random sampling method will be used to select the participants.
Research procedures:
Workbased in one public library.
Design a multi-media platform with the structure that provides a shared understanding for the project. The system is based on wireless network of notebooks, digital cameras and mini-DV video cameras.
Design a website which display and promote community-created multimedia narratives, and the website will be linked to the public library.
During a three-month workshop, trainers introduce and facilitate community participants to the skills and techniques required to record their stories and histories including storyboarding, video-recording, digital imaging and scanning.
Participants will present their draft of multimedia stories of their communities by the end of the workshop, and their final story will be viewed on the website.
This study will be measured by:
- hit count on the website
- observations on the participants
- questionnaire will be used to collect data from participants
Implications:
Research shows that information literacy programmes related to specific tasks or topics can be very effective. This project is designed to provide digital training to community members who are interested in sharing their cultural knowledge to audiences via the library and study how this kind of programme can build up library usership.
Different from traditional way of displaying library collection with text-heavy website, this multi-platform approach will provide a distinctive interactive audience experience.
Title of the study:
New multi-platform communication design for libraries
Significance:
This case study uses a project to develop a human-computer multi-platform design to draw audiences into a community project by providing them with the concept and skills to capture stories of their communities such as Wanchai, Shamshuipo.
To enable audiences to examine their relationship with the library and their role in the preservation of cultural heritage
To study the impact on library services when members of the community take a proactive role in creating content as integral artifacts of the library collections.
Participants:
Participants will be members of the community who are interested in sharing their cultural knowledge to audiences via the library.
Promotional plan will be launched to the community and interested parties can join the project by open enrollment. If the number of applicants is more than expected, a random sampling method will be used to select the participants.
Research procedures:
Workbased in one public library.
Design a multi-media platform with the structure that provides a shared understanding for the project. The system is based on wireless network of notebooks, digital cameras and mini-DV video cameras.
Design a website which display and promote community-created multimedia narratives, and the website will be linked to the public library.
During a three-month workshop, trainers introduce and facilitate community participants to the skills and techniques required to record their stories and histories including storyboarding, video-recording, digital imaging and scanning.
Participants will present their draft of multimedia stories of their communities by the end of the workshop, and their final story will be viewed on the website.
This study will be measured by:
- hit count on the website
- observations on the participants
- questionnaire will be used to collect data from participants
Implications:
Research shows that information literacy programmes related to specific tasks or topics can be very effective. This project is designed to provide digital training to community members who are interested in sharing their cultural knowledge to audiences via the library and study how this kind of programme can build up library usership.
Different from traditional way of displaying library collection with text-heavy website, this multi-platform approach will provide a distinctive interactive audience experience.
Individual Assignment - Tai Chung Man Jo (Text version)
Slide 1 - Title and Research Question, Who are the study participants, How are they selected
Title: Remote Reference Service: the old, the new and the fad? Phone enquiries, Email and Instant Messaging compared
Research Questions:
Slide 2 – Why is this important topic to study
Slide 3 -- How will data be collected and analyzed
Data will be analyzed to develop a set of indicators of remote reference service:
1. Usage statistics of each means will be analyzed.
2. Demographic details of users will be also analyzed according to (1)
3. Enquiries will be further categorized to each method
4. Average time spent on each means will be analyzed.
5. Rating of each type of enquiry will be analyzed.
6. Qualitative user feedback will also be taken into consideration.
Title: Remote Reference Service: the old, the new and the fad? Phone enquiries, Email and Instant Messaging compared
Research Questions:
- How is the new method of remote reference service compared to the traditional ones?
- Is there any preferred method from the perspective of users? Any relationship with the demographics of users?
- Is one method more suitable to answer a particular type of enquiries over another?
- How are these methods evaluated in terms of efficiency, quality and user satisfaction?
- Who?
Slide 2 – Why is this important topic to study
- As libraries move towards the Web 2.0 mode, libraries are introducing ‘new services’ of some sort, instant messaging reference service being one of these.
- Instant messaging is popular among the community at large. Such communication tool is informal nature. The effectiveness of IM as a mode of formal or service communication is still at the stage of being evaluated in different contexts and settings.
- It will be useful for libraries to gain more statistics and feedback on this mode of service, how best librarians can utilize IM as one of the communication tools with library users.
- This research is planned to provide additional insight on this, and hopefully help librarians to better plan their reference service.
Slide 3 -- How will data be collected and analyzed
- Measures will be designed (e.g. email threads capture, audio-taping of phone-in enquiries) to keep track of all the ‘remote’ enquiries directed to the reference section;
- Simultaneously, the user will be invited to complete a brief survey of no more than 5 questions on the web (for IM and email reference) and via verbal means (for phone enquiry)
- The log of the enquiries serve to record the time used to complete the enquiry, and other qualitative aspects of the enquiries which are intended to further analyzed according to the category of the enquiry, , the actual transcript of the enquiry etc.
- The survey from the users serve to provide mainly the demographic information, user rating of that particular instance of enquiries, as well as qualitative comments, if any.
- To ensure consistency in the service provided, the reference librarians will rotate weekly to deliver the service via different means.
Data will be analyzed to develop a set of indicators of remote reference service:
1. Usage statistics of each means will be analyzed.
2. Demographic details of users will be also analyzed according to (1)
3. Enquiries will be further categorized to each method
4. Average time spent on each means will be analyzed.
5. Rating of each type of enquiry will be analyzed.
6. Qualitative user feedback will also be taken into consideration.
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