Today’s Plan:
- Community Engagement Reflection
- Coding Job Advertisements
- Homework
Community Engagement Reflection (Hour #1)
Now that we are at least 1/2 way through with our community engagement project, I’d like you to engage in some direct reflection. I’ve put together a Google Doc to help guide with work. You should make a copy of the Google Doc.
The questions in the Google Doc grow out of the research on reflection that we examined in class before the break. I’d like to give everyone 20 minutes in class to work on this now, then we will discuss responses.
A final deliverable in this class will be to put together a more polished reflective document; similar in length and tone to the reflection Mattingly offers in her co-authored article with Rentz.
Coding Job Advertisements (Hour #2)
Before the break, Jacob and I started working on a research project focused on job advertisements, one that replicates the research by Brumberger and Lauer that we read earlier in the course. I’ve previously mentioned an opportunity to collaborate on this research article, and I wanted to give you a sense of what this work looks like. I have put together a small collection of job ads and a copy of our coding scheme.
Beyond familiarizing yourself with job expectations, this project would expose you to “qualitative coding,” which is a fundamental research method in the social sciences. Coding is also popular in professional domains, particularly usability and experience and marketing, both of which use focus groups conversations to collect audience impressions. That data gets coded for key terms, and then transformed into reports.
Group Meetings and Homework (Hour #3)
First, I’d like everyone to make a copy of the reflection document and spend a half hour working on that. Don’t feel like you have to start with the first question–start with whatever question is most central to your experience. Or whatever questions feels the easiest to answer.
Second, I’d like you to invest at least and two hours into your community engagement project. At the beginning of class, I will ask you to submit a quick memo to Canvas that details what you did during your two hours.
What makes this tricky is that y’all are in different places with your projects. Let me try to address this group by group:
- Amy: I need a polished draft of the grant application by Monday at midnight. Bob asked about this over break and I stalled him. I want to review some work and send him something at the end of next week’s class.
- Erika: Let’s talk
- Cole and Emily: I emailed Michael, asking him if he could return an annotated copy of the draft with instructions guiding your revision (rather than simply revising the document himself). Let’s wait and see if he responds. If we don’t hear something by Friday, I’ll email y’all to figure out what to do next.
- Jacob and Austin: Let’s review where things ended with Gwen and figure out your next move
