Weekly Overview:

Once you’ve finished last week’s potential employer assignment, make sure to post it on blog site and upload the document in Bb before the deadline. Then, Let’s talk about what we shared. Check out the posts from others in your group. Comment on at least two of those posts. Reply to two posts with what you find interesting about a company, suggestions to improve the research or interview questions, or add additional information about a company.

After you finish reading part 5 of our current text, you’ll be ready for this week’s quiz. Quiz 2 covers Parts 4 and 5 of the text. Review information is in the earlier weekly units. There are a total of 30 questions, you will have 45 minutes to finish the quiz. This is an open book, open note quiz. And, you had tips for class quizzes in the Week 3 Overview.

We have new readings for this week, new PowerPoints, and a helpful video for an upcoming assignment. To get a little ahead, check out Claire Nickerson’s video that provided previous students with great tips on finding academic research and reviewing the articles you find.

And speaking of research, we’ll be joined by the new library liaison for the Department of Informatics, Heather Van Dyne. She is just getting started at Fort Hays State this year and will be joining us online as the week continues. Keep an eye out for her blog profile and guest post, which you should see before week’s end.

The Week’s Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the basics of Qualitative Research Design (Part 6)
2. Describe the basics of Experimental Research (Part 7)
3. Apply basic academic search techniques

Week 5 Learning Tasks

A: Activity Checklist:

1. 1. Read Parts 6 & 7, Patten and Newhart (2018).
   2. Lecture Slides 6 — Qualitative Research Design
   3. Lecture Slides 7 — Designing Experimental Research
   4. Video on Basic Library Searching:

Assignments:

1. 1. 1. Finish Quiz 2 on Sampling & Measurement.
      2. Comment on two group member’s Potential Employer post
      3. Find one research article to review next week.
      4. Group Presentation Replies:
         • As we approach the Quiz on Parts 4 & 5, everyone is encouraged to review and interact with the relevant presentations from Week 3 and last week, Week 4.
         • Groups 10 & 11 must comment on two group members’ presentation posts.
      5. Group Presentations Assignments:
         • Group #7: Presentations on Part 6
         • Group #1: Presentations on Part 7
         • Presentation Guidelines:
           • Three to ten-minute visual presentation in-class or posted to the blog as video.
           • If you post it to the blog, it must:
             • Explain the topic with sound and video.
             • Only be categorized with the “Week 5” category
             • NOT use “Week 5” or the number 5 in the tags.
             • Be tagged as “Presentation,” “Quiz 3,” and with relevant terms from your individual topics.

DUE: Monday, September 27 at 2pm Central

Excerpt in the featured image is the abstract from:

Greer, J. D., Hardin, M., Homan, C. (2009). “Naturally” less exciting? Visual production of men’s and women’s track and field coverage during the 2004 Olympics. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 53(2), 173-189. https://doi.org/10.1080/08838150902907595