Project Update

On Tuesday, I met with Alan Wallace about conducting some searches related to this project (professional development of teachers and case study methodology).  Alan was able to help me find a dissertation in the area of literacy professional development and used case study.  Sorry to say, it was not a quality document, but reading it has been interesting especially in light of the criteria outlined in our text.  This disseration did NOT meet the criteria by any stretch.    I also met with Ann this week to do some Atlas.ti. work.  She was very helpful and addressed all of the items I had jotted down for our conversation (families, network views, super coding, coding articles etc. ).  We weren't able to find a way to directly input emails into Atlas.  I have been cutting and pasting them into word documents and then uploading.  I have taken notes on Stake's Art of Case study and will upload them into the HU as well.   I also talked to the professor I am working with to narrow the research questions so that I will have an approach when I begin to code the observational data.  The questions to focus upon are: What is going on?  What are the experiences of the participants? and What is the language used between PD provider and PD participant?