 I have been a fan and user of Screenflow although I do not know a lot about any similar Windows-compatible programs.
I received an email today from NCH describing "Debut" which is both Mac and Win compatible. It has an attractive price (roughly $40 for a single license) although I cannot say that it's cheaper since I have five copies of Screenflow based on my purchase through the app store. But if you are a one computer person, and that computer happens to be a Windows machine, this may be worth checking out. I have a Win computer at my office (not mine) and if the license is easily transferable, I may try out a copy of this on Win (if not, I'll try a copy for Mac). The best use I have had of Screenflow is in accomodations for giving exams to students. Rather than reading the exam, I open the document and highlight the questions as I audio record and then save this as a movie file. For a long exam, I make multiple files and indicate at the beginning (and in the file name) which questions are included. This allows a student to navigate back and forth in a way more similar to an actual exam - because he/she can locate questions by looking for the highlighting when forwarding/rewinding the recording.
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This is the graphical depiction of my first "grounded theory." I analyzed two interviews completed (by Dr. Katherine Sopka) with female physicists. You can find these and others here: http://www.aip.org/history/nbl/oralhistory.html
I developed an a posteriori/after the fact research question because that is somewhat the nature of assignments completed using 'found' data. I was interested in the process early 20th century women pursuing Ph.D. degrees i physics used to achieve academic credibility. It is a 'process' question because that is appropriate for grounded theory. I became most interested in the discrimination component although I identified three primary activities in the diagram above. I found GT overall sort of tedious. I tend to identify a lot more with the phenomenological approaches - I am interested in trying to understand individual experiences (and find commonalities among those) but not necessarily in taking it the further step of trying to formulate a theory. This may change as I continue to work in the same subject matter over time. |
AuthorI am Sheryl L. Chatfield, Ph.D, C.T.R.S. I am a member of the faculty in the College of Public Health at Kent State University. I also Co-coordinate the Graduate Certificate in Qualitative Research and I am a member of the Design Innovation Team at Kent State. Archives
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