The questions start with easier general questions about current concepts of the site, referred to here as 'AC'. As current concepts are easier to recall and explain, any look at historical usage is better left until after current recollections.
Forums
Initial questions for general forum:
- Tell me about experiences in using AC.
- How does AC connect to your study and general life?
- How did you work out how to use AC? Were there things that confused you? How did you resolve any confusion?
- Where were your expectations not met? Did you find some things that you weren’t able to do? Did you find a way around this? How?
- Where and how were your expectations met?
Initial questions for group forums will use the same questions as for the general forum, plus:
- a. What does the group do, what are its aims? (for you - how does it fit into your experience?)? What do you do for the group?
b. What role does AC play in the group? - For one group that has a Moodle area provided for the course as well as access to AC: why do you choose to use AC rather than the Moodle site for your group discussions?
Interviews
In the interviews, I'll place AC in view and to allow exploration to prompt recollection - show personal profile, friends’ pages, group page and discussions.
Prompts as below would not be used unless the subject is completely at a loss: some prompts may need revision as they may be too leading. They are more as a guide to myself as to the areas that I'm interested in.
Current concepts and outcomes:
- How would you describe AC to someone who is new to it? (Prompt: what does AC remind you of - does it feel or work like other sites or communities you have experienced? What is different?)
- How does AC connect to your study and general life?
- How would you describe who you are and what you do on AC? (Prompts: that is, what role do you see yourself in? collaborator, consumer, producer, promoter of self, source of knowledge?)
- Based on the answers to questions 1-3, ask more specifically about activities on the site.
- How does using AFTRS Central make you feel? (prompts might include: ownership.. part of a community? isolated? supported? are you an owner? a guest? does it belong to the 'school' but not you?)
- What impact or consequences to your experience at school have come from using AC? (Prompt: What do you think about learning and communications?)
- Do you feel you have a good understanding of the site for your uses? (Are you comfortable using the site?) If you get confused about how to use the site, how do you resolve this? What strategies have you used to work out how to use the site?
- Tell me about some experiences that have involved AC.
- When you started using AC, what did you think it would be useful for? What did you want to achieve?
- What was unclear when you first joined?
- What was an obstacle to you doing what you wanted?
- What helped you in doing what you wanted? How do you want to be helped?
- How did you work out what to do?
- Describe how you generally used online tools before coming to AFTRS. (Prompt: Are you a blogger, have you used or contributed content to eg YouTube or Wikipedia, Twitter or Facebook?)
- What do you think is important to learning in general and to your learning in particular? (Prompt: how important are other students to your learning?)
- Very few people rate or comment on videos and photos on AC - why do you think that is?
- Questions... Have you considered sharing, uploading or commenting and thought better of it? What were your thought processes when this happened?
- Compare the experience and activity on AC vs Hub (Moodle). How do you use them differently?
- You've posted notices on the main forum and several groups' pages. What prompted this?
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