SOESA Poster Presentation: "The voices of tenure-track faculty: Their transitional experiences"

The above word cloud provides a summary of what "The voices of tenure-track faculty: Their transitional experiences" poster is about. Based upon the qualitative phenomenological research study that five other researchers and I did for our Qualitative Research I course to "explore the transitional experience of newly-hired tenure-track faculty at a research one institution. Newly hired tenure-track faculty is defined as faculty participating in any stage of the tenure process prior to being granted tenure." We investigated tenure preparation pertaining to politics and culture, daily responsibilities, supportive relationships, unexpected barriers to progress, as well as the overall gist of the tenure experience. The themes and findings that emerged provided us with suggestions as to how the tenure process might be revamped for overall improvement. The full poster presentation is below and describes what resources were used to produce it.

SOESA Poster Presentation: "The voices of tenure-track faculty: Their transitional experiences."

Reference:
Evans, A. D., Adams, I. S., Richmond, J. A., Spruill, N. R. (2008, February). The voices of tenure-track faculty: Their transitional experiences. Poster presentation at the 3^rd Annual School of Education Student Association Research Conference, Blacksburg, VA.

This is a poster that I created for the 2008 School of Education Student Association (SOESA) 3rd annual conference in Blacksburg, VA. Research for developing this poster consisted of researching and referring to the following sites for information about presenting quality poster presentations:

1. Advice on designing scientific posters.
   Colin Purrington. Department of Biology, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania.
   http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/posteradvice.htm
   
2. Creating effective poster presentations.
   George Hess, Kathryn Tosney, Leon Liegel.
   http://www.ncsu.edu/project/posters
3. PhD Poster Gallery.
   http://phdposters.com/gallery.php

Bonkian youTubian Researchian Update

Curt J. Bonk is a Professor of the Indiana University System in Bloomington, IN 47401

For those of you who might be interested, he has some (very) preliminary research going on with the use of how and why YouTube is used as it is. The following is his latest update sent to me via the Facebook group: Bonkian YouTubiam Researchian:

Curt Bonk sent a message to the members of Bonkian YouTubian Researchian.

Subject: Some tentative YouTube Survey results and need just a few more respondents to get to our goal

Hello members of this YouTubian research group. Thanks for helping with the big survey! We are at 861 respondents now and hoping to get to 1,000. 139 more to go. We have given away three 80 gig video iPods on January 1st. We will give away another iPod and an iPhone on February 28th or when we get to 1,000 respondents; whichever come sooner. If you have yet to complete the YouTube research survey, please do. And feel free to share with others through email or posts in your Facebook account or to your Facebook friends. Here is the link: http://www.surveyshare.com/video/

Some quick overview results from a reivew of a few of the surveys (these are highly incomplete--more comprehensive results to come in a month or so. The statements below are based on a quick scan of 5-6 of the surveys of the 60 different YouTube videos we are evaluating. Caution on debating, generalizing, or sharing. Wait for that.):
1. So far...Most people prefer short 1-4 minute YouTube videos. Some though like them to be under 1 minute and still others 4-7 minutes long.
2. It seems that most watch YouTube videos for comedy (i.e., fun) or information. Humor is highly important.
3. Motivation to watch YouTube videos comes from capitvating or engaging content, informational and educational content, and interesting topics.
4. Most think that YouTube videos are somewhat important in education and training today but will be highly important in a few years.
5. Most had not posted a comment after viewing a YouTube video.
6. About 1 in 5 (of a small sample) had created a YouTube video.
7. Why would someone create a YouTube video? Some of the top answers have included to experiment with technology, participating in the education of the people of this planet, interested in the potentiial of online video, contributing to the global world, personal or professional research, and sharing knowledge and ideas.
8. It appears that most people do NOT subscribe to YouTube channels.
9. Most people watch YouTube videos between 6 and 12 pm at night.
10. Based on this quick scan of a few results, it seems that most people watch fewer than 1 YouTube video per week.
11. Most had shared a YouTube video link with others.
12. Based on this quick scan, it seems it is rare for someone to flag a YouTube video as inappropriate.

I will stop there but I wanted to share so as to give you feedback for taking the survey. Again thanks for that. This is highly tenative. Remember to send people to this link to participate: http://www.surveyshare.com/video/

Once again, thanks so much! I hope to have a more complete picture of the results soon. The above numbers are just based on a review of a few of the survey results (remember that there are 60 different YouTube videos we are sending people to and and associated surveys...so these points are just general statements from reviewing just a couple of them. Please do not quote or use or share too widely. Caution on use! Wait for an update. Thanks so much.)

2008-Horizon-Report.pdf (application/pdf Object)

The Horizon Report 2008 edition has been released! It is available for download and the Horizon Project wiki is also online. Soon the report will be coming to FDI to be distributed among all faculty enrolled in the spring/summer tracks.

The Horizon Report is a collaboration between the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. As stated in the Horizon Report itself, "[t]he project uses qualitative research methods to identify the technologies selected for inclusion in each report, beginning with a survey of the work of other organizations and a review of the literature with an eye to spotting interesting emerging technologies" (2008, p. 8). It covers the key emerging technologies, the critical challenges we will face, significant trends (on the rise and in the past), and an analysis of the past five years of trends found in the recent evolution of emerging technologies.

Faceresearch.org is Interesting and Interactive!

Face Research: http://www.faceresearch.org/

Per the website:

FaceResearch.org allows you to participate in short online psychology experiments looking at the traits people find attractive in faces and voices. Register to participate in experiments if this is your first time at FaceResearch.org or login if you have been here before.

Make your own average faces with our new interactive demos!

In addition to participating in facial attractiveness experiments, you can also complete lifestyle and personality questionnaires about characteristics that may be associated with face and voice preferences and see how you compare to others. We post all our study results after we have finished collecting data.

You can also learn about our computer-graphic technology and read about some of the findings of our previous studies.

Take part in an online questionnaire about Drinking Water and Soft Drinks by Moira Cruickshank, a student who is learning to program online experiments with us.