Methods Map Showing results for Qualitative research Showing 1-20 of 859 items Back to top Choose from the "Show content" menu to display related content here. Getting the Most Out of the Research Experience Brian Roberts While each research situation is different and no book can fully prepare the researcher for what they experience – this book provides a guide to what may be expected. The Handbook of Social Work Research Methods Bruce A. "`Not so much a handbook, but an excellent source of reference' - British Journal of Social Work This volume is the definitive resource for anyone doing research in social work. The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research in Psychology Carla Willig & Wendy Stainton-Rogers The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research in Psychology provides comprehensive coverage of the qualitative methods, strategies and research issues in psychology, combining 'how-to-do-it' summaries with an examination of historical and theoretical foundations. Social Research is a bourgeoning field.
www.cognifit.com/all-applications Top 10 News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - Lifehacker Suggestions. 1 - eat when you are hungry. Eating at "specified food consumption scheduled times" is silly unless you have a medical condition to do so. I eat when I am actually hungry, like hunger pang hungry. and as to what to eat? anything you want. I carry a spare PB&J spread in a tortilla and rolled up in my lunch for the days I may work late. and it can sit in the lunch bag for 24 hours without a problem. 2 - Pack food that does not need to be chilled if you dont have a fridge available. Look for cookbooks that specifically are meant for picnics. As for eating habits for the other 3 days of the week, try to just eat when you are hungry and as much as you can in reference to your eating habits for the 4 days of the week that you do work. I've done night shifts and managing your eating habits and sleeping schedule is something that you'll always have to work on. You can't go wrong with sandwiches. 2 tubes of Go-Gurt (yeah, it's marketed for kids, but it's an easy lunch item)
Increase Your Productivity With A Weekly Review - Vanseo Design How do you decide what to work on next? Do you have a system for task management? Do you just do whatever you feel like in the moment? Note: This post includes an audio version. You may have read the post where I set goals for 2014. Over the years I’ve read several books on productivity and specifically about task management. GTD isn’t a perfect system for me. I still think it’s a good system with lots of good ideas and I’ve been working to incorporate many of GTD’s ideas over the years. Around the same time I read Allen’s book, I looked for To Do apps and decided on Things. I mention Things because using it I find GTD harder to put into practice than I first thought. It’s also hard to make such large changes to long followed habits. The major change I made this year was to devote time to a weekly review of what I’ve completed and what still needs to be done. It’s something I haven’t been doing even though I’ve seen others say it’s the most important part of the system.
Console Recorder Finally...a "black box recorder" for the cockpit of your plant: the control room! The Longwatch Console Recorder automatically captures HMI, SCADA and DCS displays and provides you with live and recorded images of exactly what was on the operator displays at any point in time (including the mouse tracks). The Console Recorder is a great tool for: Reduced Downtime: don't dig through alarm logs, operator logs, trends and reports - just play back what the system was showing the operator and you'll know what happened and how to fix it. Troubleshooting: it aggregates and associates the information in various databases - by showing you that data the way the operator saw it! Training: Just like the pros: use console recording as "game films" to show best practices for procedures, startups and shutdowns. There are two versions of the Console Recorder: Value Edition - a basic screen recorder that provides live and recorded read-only images.
Take typing lessons, test your typing speed and practice typing for free! This is keybr.com, a web application that will help you teach touch typing. Touch typing is typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys. A person possessing touch typing skills will know their location on the keyboard through muscle memory. It can improve any individual's typing speed and accuracy dramatically. This is a short tutorial that will explain how does this application work. You can use the left and right arrow keys to navigate through these slides. This tutorial is based on these few principles: No boring, repetitive exercises. Initially it starts generating words from a small subset of the most frequent letters of the alphabet. When you are typing these words, keybr measures time to type a key for every letter in that subset. Once you familiarize yourself with the current subset of letters, the algorithm expands it, including more and more letters to it. So at any time, you will by typing the letters you are least familiar with. This is the text board. ? ? ? ? ?
Features - Programmer, Interrupted This article is being highlighted as one of Gamasutra's top stories of 2013. A reprint from the April 2013 issue of Gamaustra's sister publication Game Developer magazine, this article, aimed at programmers, explores ways to help you take your work back from distraction. I'm writing this article in a dull state: low sleep, busy, disorientated, and interrupted. I try all the remedies: using the Pomodoro Technique, working in coffee shops, wearing headphones, and avoiding work until being distraction-free in the late night. Like you, I am "programmer, interrupted." The cost of interruption Every few months I see another programmer asked to not use headphones during work hours or interrupted by meetings too frequently to do any work, who has little defense against these demands. Researchers who have studied the costs of interruptions in office environments estimate that interrupted tasks take twice as long and contain twice as many errors as uninterrupted tasks.
The Weekly Productivity Planner: Plan your work for the week by when you're most productive! Editor’s note: This planner is now called the Weekly Action Planner and has been redesigned. This post highlights the changes to the Weekly Action Planner and you can find the download on our Free Planners page. I’m going on a limb here (again) and releasing the in its draft form. Part of the reason I’ve been delaying the release of this aid is because the weekly planner is so important. Planning by weeks is just so much more effective because it allows you to capture both the big picture (what you need to do) and combine it with the little picture (the how and when you’ll do what you need to do.) That said, a lot remained the same but was upgraded from the task level to the project level. The Weekly Productivity Sorter functions in the same way as the productivity sorter from the Daily Productivity Planner. What I need the most feedback on is the duplication of the days of the week.
It Exists! MIT Creates Tech For Moving Files Across Devices With A Swipe Last week, we reported on a cool, if seemingly far-fetched, UI concept that’d let you drag files from your phone to your computer with a swipe of the finger. The idea is “so simple and clever, you wonder why it doesn’t exist already,” we wrote. Hours later, an email appeared in our inbox, subject line: “it exists!” The message came courtesy of Natan Linder, a PhD student in the Fluid Interfaces group at the MIT Media Lab. Here’s the amazing part: They didn’t hack the iPhone and iPad with IrDA transceivers or anything like that, which would’ve enabled the devices to detect each other in 3-D space, a la Sifteo cubes. Swÿp gathers information such as your phone and iPad’s approximate location (available via WiFi) and account details (via sites like Facebook or Gmail), then ties that information to a real-time gesture, the swipe (or Swÿp). Why should we care? List started Swÿp, then Linder jumped on board. [Images courtesy of Natan Linder]
Blog | Professional speaker, branding expert - Karen Post The Branding Diva By Karen Post, on April 15, 2014 Using video is like adding high-octane fuel to a Hennessey Venom. In case you missed it, because you blinked, this year the Hennessey Venom GT broke the world speed record at 270.49 mph at the Kennedy Space Center. “Video has been the fastest and most consistently growing medium for content marketing,” said Lori Rosen, Executive Director, Custom Content Council. Want more traction on your Website and social media channels? Branded video is sharable. It can become viral. Today everyone can use video. I recently added video to my branding tool kit. Then after my talk, I close the presentation with this 1-minute video and chorus of the song Branding Boogie “Brand up Baby!” Watch the Branding Boogie video here Using video in a presentation is a powerful way to get the audience’s attention and project a consistent brand essence. Beyond professionally produced videos, this year I’m committed to creating more videos myself too. Got 6 seconds? Got a big budget?
How to Plan Your Week: 4 Steps to Productivity “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. This is a very practical posting in which I will show you my personal weekly planning process. “Wait a minute,” you may think, “what does this quote from Steve Jobs have to do with weekly planning?” Your weekly plan is your ticket to a self-directed and self-created life. Self-Leadership: Know your life-areas and goals So, some things are necessary to be really effective with your weekly plan. For instance my life-areas are: Private: body, mind, spirit, social, finance, juiceProfessional: b2b, sales, e-commerce, marketing, technical, product, finance Please check my post about balance and life-areas for more on this. Another really important thing is to have set personal goals. 1. I would suggest to do the weekly planning on Sunday. [area] task-description 2. 3.
Software and I: How to Manage a Self-Managing Team? As we all know, there’s no shortage in confusing and counter-intuitive ideas and practices in the Agile world, but the idea of a self-managing team has to be one of the best. Indeed, the idea that a manager can manage a self-managing team sounds oxymoronic at best, and at worst – plain moronic. In this post I will try to clear the air and explain what it means for a team to be self-managing, and what is the role of a manager of such a team. By the way, this post is the fourth in my series of Demystifying Agile. What Does It Mean to Self-Manage? A self managing team, or as it is sometimes also called, a self-organizing team, is, above all, a mature team. The first thing such a team does is to take charge of how they do their work, which is to say, they define the tasks they will have to complete in order to deliver the solution (requirement / user story / feature). In short, one must merely point them at a goal, and they will do everything needed to achieve it! What else? Wrong. Summary