- Reading books
- Looking at images- books, internet
- Watch videos
- Talk to people for opinions and views
- Search the internet
- Email questions to retrieve more info
Source
- Images- Scanned, blogged, print out, drawings, primary or secondary photos.
- Quotes- Interview recordings (audio), written interview, interview transcripts, practical observation and experiment.
- Videos- Quotes, opinions, observational notes, screen shots and clips.
- Talking- Interviews written/audio and emails.
All of this gives us evidence of what we've researched. Limited to what we can bring and prove about the subject.
Problems
- Reliability of sources
- Geographically restricted
- Legal restrictions
- Limited time
- Too much time
- Costs
- Subjects may be dead
- Happened in the past
- Lack of interest/motivation?
- Cooperation
- Outside limitations
Solutions
- Geo restrictions- Talk to people who've been? use their photos or try and find similar things in your area.
- Time- Think, plan and schedule
- Dead people/past- Museums, ask relatives, watch films
- Problem with conducting primary research can sometimes be confidence.
- People use inappropriate research methods.
Below are just a few work sheets from when working in a group discussing research;
