Blog #16

Statement of purpose (what you hope to show/discover): devlop this in terms of your data.  Make sure you develop a purpose that your data can actually accomplish.  Whose perspective are you exploring?  What will your participants' perspectives contribute to research on your topic?  Why is that perspective important? 

Detailed statement of your research question(s): you should write questions that you can "ask" of your data.  What does the data show about. . .?  How does my participant describe. . .?  What language patterns occur when my participant talks about. . .?  What connections do I see between the way my participant talks about. . . and cultural stories/assumptions about. . .?  Where does my participant directly state here ideas about. . . ?  Where does s/he imply her ideas about . . .?  What does it mean that she is direct sometimes and indirect other times when she talks about. . .? And so on.

List of the information you need to gather: list any additional "data" you will need to complete your project (do you need to: do follow up interviews?  an observation?  look at some writing samples?  etc?)

A preliminary list of sources (if you need a research essay => let me know.  Send what you have found so far and give me a detailed idea of what you are looking for)

Discussion of any additional data you will need to collect + how you will collect it

Make people aware hat thers hould be a futre with texting in the classroom
Focus: Present and Future of texting in the classroom 

Questions: Is texting effecting the way students write papers?
Is texting in the classroom completley distracting or is it a good thing?
The process of back channeling, when it is used?
The process of having a blog or benefits of having the class to have access to online.
When and how should teachers icorporate texting and back channeling into the classroom?

I need to obtain articles about : texting in the classroom, effects of texting ( in general), benefits of blogs,  back channeling. 

* I am still honestly a little but confused and stressing over this but I will be talking to you to clear things up in class. I'm sorry about all the confusion Ive been having with this.