Blog#6

Work
I find it very satisfying when a piece of work seems to just - well - work.

The study was about the assessment of e-portfolios. I had answers, almost 3000 words in total, from 33 respondents, to a question about what people expected to be doing next year and the year after about e-portfolios for assessment.

There is an exciting alarming moment when you look at the data and see if there's any kind of a story there, any common themes, and bases for recommendations, maybe if appropriate anything that suggestions a theory or model (not appropriate this time).

As I summarised each answer, I noticed that the most frequent word I used was 'more'. That was the story - 'more'. It was easy to see the main locations of the more-ness - within individual modules, and across programmes, departments and institutions. Responses dropped neatly into each of these two locations.

There were two other main sets of issues around - technical, and organisational / economic.

Other categorisations would of course have been possible. But this categorisation felt useful, and responses within each category prompted thoughts about what needs doing next. The analysis seemed fit for purpose. And under 700 words.

As I say, it's nice when it just seems to work.


Life
They're draining a different lake today (see Blogs 1-3). Well, they were, until the thunderstorm came.


Other stuff - photobooks again
I mentioned in the Blog#5 that we had completed a photo work on our holiday in Norway. This preview will give you an idea how photo books through blurb.com work.