Facebook just released its first-ever advertisement. Is Facebook like a chair?
The ad attempts to explore the question: What is the nature of 'being social'?
What do YOU think?
Friday, October 5, 2012
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Student Examples: Journal Article Review
Research Project, part 1: Defining Your Topic
The first step in the research process is to identify your Research Question. This can be posed as either a question ("Does an interactive teaching environment more effective for teaching students?" or it can be stated as a thesis ("Interactive teaching approaches result in higher rates of learning.")
The first step is to find a subject area that interests you, for example what is the effect of social media on self-esteem?
This is a great topic for research. It's also far too broad to offer a researcher any hope of coming to a definitive conclusion.
Once you have selected a broad area of interest, word hard to narrow your focus. Instead of the broad relationship between social media and self-esteem, pick a specific form of social media, like Facebook; pick a specific group to study, like middle schoolers or divorced people or latinos or married men, etc. Even then, see if you can narrow your question down further.
Head to the research library and find a few articles that overlap with your area of interest. Then head to the back of the journal articles, where the authors admit things they missed, new questions worth pursuing, etc. This is the process of focusing your research question!
The first step is to find a subject area that interests you, for example what is the effect of social media on self-esteem?
This is a great topic for research. It's also far too broad to offer a researcher any hope of coming to a definitive conclusion.
Once you have selected a broad area of interest, word hard to narrow your focus. Instead of the broad relationship between social media and self-esteem, pick a specific form of social media, like Facebook; pick a specific group to study, like middle schoolers or divorced people or latinos or married men, etc. Even then, see if you can narrow your question down further.
Head to the research library and find a few articles that overlap with your area of interest. Then head to the back of the journal articles, where the authors admit things they missed, new questions worth pursuing, etc. This is the process of focusing your research question!
Monday, October 1, 2012
Audio Remediation Projects
Here are links to each team's Audio Remediation Project:
Team Dracula
Team BePop: Tell Tale (Western) Heart
Three Little Pigs
The Wizard of F
Tell Tale Snore
Team Dracula
Team BePop: Tell Tale (Western) Heart
Three Little Pigs
The Wizard of F
Tell Tale Snore
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