In December 2020, as a result of a module paper in Part 1 of my PhD programme, I made a policy recommendation to the Director-General of the Central Statistics Office in Ireland: At a policy level, consideration should be given to collecting and publishing statistical data at a national level on ICT usage by householdsContinue reading ““Nearly half of persons aged 75+ have never used the internet””
Category Archives: 5. Personal and Professional Digital Capacity
Going old school…
My PhD Gantt chart for July 2021 has the following activity: Set up and test tech requirements for telephone interviews. In my mind I expected this to be quite straightforward. I would make the calls from my phone to the participant’s landline or non-smartphone using Microsoft Teams, the calls would also be recorded using Teams.Continue reading “Going old school…”
Organising the chaos… the magic of NVivo
I’ve been learning loads about Nvivo this semester through training workshops and a one-to-one consultation. Actually it was the other way around since I booked a consultation first to look at my recent data from a survey of 460 records (called cases in NVivo terminology). A little more than an hour into the consultation IContinue reading “Organising the chaos… the magic of NVivo”
Organising the chaos… EndNote (and not before time!)
In about two months time the timer will start ticking on my PhD thesis. Being an organised type of person I want to have all my ducks lined up in terms of reading, writing and productivity tools. I’ve been getting to grips with many of these over the past while and am now in aContinue reading “Organising the chaos… EndNote (and not before time!)”
Organising the chaos… hello Scrivener, goodbye Word
Not chaos exactly but since previous posts have opened with this title it seems to make sense to follow the pattern with this post. Note to self: I should soon put a list of these posts together to easily locate them for myself although a tag search for ‘chaos’ or ‘productivity’ usually produces the postsContinue reading “Organising the chaos… hello Scrivener, goodbye Word”
The challenge of “remaining current” part 2 – “Ultimately, it’s all about community”
As promised in Part 1 of this short series, this post considers the Community of Inquiry framework from Garrison, Anderson and Archer (1999), in my opinion another important model for online teaching and learning. However, in the two weeks since my last post I have been pondering on community. Interested, then please read on. BrouwerContinue reading “The challenge of “remaining current” part 2 – “Ultimately, it’s all about community””
Sandra Flynn 