Initial list
- Ethics form
- Draft activity plan/brief
- Run a pilot with a partner
- Get feedback
- Run the first activity with a tutor
- Feedback from a tutor on how the session was run
- Refine activity
- Run subsequent interviews and activity
- Capture outputs
- Reflect on sessions
- Collate feedback
- Plan next steps
- Presentation slides
TOOLS used
miro |voice memo | word transcription | excel project planning
I used MIRO as a working document to capture ideas (structured and unstructured) and as a place to try to visualise findings, processes and also resources.
Sam Barber Action Research Project | MIRO (click to view MIRO board)
Action Plan
In addition to the list above I have also been using an Excel project plan.
recording & Transcription
Have also been exploring voice-to-text transcription services and which may work most effectively for these sessions – from Simon Says to using record on Word – which is what I’ve decided to trial for my first session. I will have my ipad open by the side and will supplement this with a voice recording app on my phone to ensure I don’t lose any content or can check back with the voice recording if the text recording is unclear on Word.
UPDATE on recording & TRANSCRIPTION
Transcription proved to be slightly more problematic than I had anticipated.
After trialing Otter.ai / Recording on Word in the interviews, plus several other options I eventually used an App called Voice Memo which I could use on my phone.
I could then upload the voice recording to Word on the web and it would then transcribe those voice recordings to a Word document. This was free of charge and worked really well.
Testing the session plan!
I spent an hour this afternoon with my very patient partner, as he role-played being a UAL tutor. My main objective was to run through how the research intervention would work in practice, could I use the data the way I thought, how ‘clunky’ would it feel, would the way I had designed the flow of the session facilitate effective discussion and also the questions lead to interesting insights.
The question set is open and I have the first interview tomorrow so can learn again where the conversations take us. The draft action plan and questions I designed generally worked ok however the flow was not optimal so have reorganized the structure of the session moving questions around and creating a clearer plan for me to work from during the sessions.
draft guide for the intervention