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dinamehta's Archive on Aug 25, 2007
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Useful frameworks! In my experience, I find one of the best ways of recording observations is through photographs - lots and lots of them to remind me later of objects, people, artifacts, environments, activities around the subject being studies. Coupled with key words from anecdotes and stories. I like building tags across sites being observed too.
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n response to each of these struggles several frameworks have been suggested to help you write meaningfully and fast, keep you writing, and give structure to your observations. The six I am aware of, and that have a striking similarity, are: 1. 9 Dimensions of descriptive observation - Spradley, 1980 2. AEIOU - eLab 3. A(x4) Model - Rothstein, 2001 4. Bringing the Outside In - Sotirin, 1999 5. POSTA - (tracked as far as Pat Sachs and Gitte Jordan) 6. POEMS - Kumar and Whitney, 2003