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CSCL 2005 Workshops
  Title: "Micro-analytic studies of instructional practice: A working-shop."

Day: Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Time: 9:00-17:00

Location: A05

Organizers: Timothy Koschmann, Aug Nishizaka

Contact: Timothy Koschmann (tkoschmann@siumed.edu)

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Description: This workshop will consist of a series of data sessions each designed to provide opportunities for those who do videoethnographic research to share samples of their data. Participants in the workshop will benefit both by uncovering new facets of their own data and through the rich opportunities the workshop will afford for honing their skills for looking and listening.

Following on a tradition begun at ICLS 2002 and continued at CSCL 2003, we propose a day of data sharing to take place during the CSCL '05 pre-conference workshops. The day will be broken into four ninty-minute sessions each devoted to the exploration of a single piece of data. The four samples of data will be selected in advance of the workshop and prepared for presentation.

Following the usual protocol for data sessions conducted in communication studies and microsociology, we will do repeated examinings of the data interspersed with phases of individual and group analytic work. Our approach will be explicitly microanalytic, for both practical and programmatic reasons. Because we will have only a limited time to devote to any one piece of data, we will only be able to carefully analyze relatively brief samples of interaction (2-3 minutes or less). Programmatically we are committed to documenting learning in careful detail, though this does not necessarily imply a specific frame of analysis (i.e., the data sessions will focus on brief isolated fragments but these may be part of longer episodes or components of more elaborate ensembles).

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