Supervision Meeting 7

Supervisory Meeting 7 for Nothando Ngwenya – Monday 15th of January 2007 at 10:30am in Stella Mill’s office

Present: NN, SM

Discussed the wording of the letter I had written to be sent to the 3 hospices that have shown an interest in taking part in the Research. Stella made the necessary changes.
Worked on the Independent Study module descriptor and made few changes which included:-
1) Reducing the learning outcomes from five to three
2) Form of assessment was changed; I no longer need to do a reflective piece as it is a requirement for another module and would be a repetition, I also will not be doing a report on a conference as the assessment already in place would be enough for 30credits.
We decided to change the working title of the project from: The usability and usage of weblogs in hospice settings, to The usage of weblogs in hospice settings. This is because the project will not test the usability of the blog for the hospice users to a great deal although a heuristic evaluation and some testing will be done after designing the blog.
We decided to use outpatients for the project due to the critical condition of some inpatients and the fact that they may not be able to use the blog due to severe illness.

Things to do by next meeting

Make necessary changes to the Independent Study module proposal form.
Research on universities that may offer courses on writing, therapeutic writing to try and gather more information for the literature review.
Check completed thesis in the library to see the layout and content of the Introduction/ Literature review.
Stella will draft a letter to ……. hospice.

Genius genius (Thats if its even the spelling)

Oh my I am so Impressed, I am a genius, na na na na na. I have been having problems posting on my blog and well after 2 and a half months I have finally managed to sort it out so I dont have to move elsewhere coz I loved my home msn spaces. Anyway I will definately be speaking to you sooner than soon.
Take care

Supervision meeting

Supervisory Meeting 8 for Nothando Ngwenya – Monday 5th of January 2007 at 3:30pm in Paul Kingston’s office

Present: NN, PK, SM

We had a discussion of the Independent peer review form and the following changes were agreed upon:
The project does not have outcome measures and hence not appropriate.
The study is a cross-sectional and not a longitudinal study.
As both supervisors are experienced in qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis, no external advisors were required.
It was greed that the Grounded Theory is the best method but should still discuss with Lou.
Letter of collaboration has been received from St Katherine hospice.
Diana has shown an interest in being an external reviewer but expresses concern that it may be a conflict of interest as she works in one of the collaborating research centres.
A 3rd reviewer was suggested by Stella, and advised to get the contact details from Ian Sunley (lecturer in FCET).
A brief discussion was held on the Literature review part of the thesis and was advised to start working on it as some parts like the characteristics of user groups will be necessary for the design of the weblog.
Everyone is now satisfied with the RDC1 and IPR form and they can both be submitted.

Things to do by next meeting

E-mail Ian Sunley and get contact details for the 3rd external reviewer.
Remind Paul to complete his proforma CV for next meeting.
Research on posting pod casts on the weblogs and audio transcriptions (changing audio file to text).
4. To produce a flow chart diagram for the detailed plan of investigation to be submitted with the Independent peer review form.