Both tutorials will be offered multiple times, but enrollment will be limited in each section to increase interactivity and to ensure that all participants have an opportunity to acquire practical experience. The registration fee for tutorials is separate from the conference registration.

Participants in this tutorial will learn how to operate a video camera and microphones to capture research-quality images and sound through video-based materials and hands-on exercises. This instruction will cover use of camcorder features (like manual focus and zoom) as well as videography issues such as camera angle, placement, and movement, lighting, microphone placement etc. In addition to these videography basics, participants will need to learn to "plan a shoot" and to make decisions about what to change while the classroom session is occurring. We will ask participants to describe the kinds of research they intend to perform, and will lead an interactive discussion of appropriate shooting plans, and likely on-the-spot adaptations that will be necessary. Participants will have opportunities to practice these skills by filming other participants engaged in on-going workshop activities. After completing this segment, participants will become aware of common problems in classroom videography, and will be able to operate a camera and microphone so as to capture high quality images and sound. Issues pertaining to acquiring informed consent will also be discussed.

Mike Sipusic began his career as a videographer documenting high school students using a computer simulator based lab in geometric optics. While at the Institute for Research on Learning, he helped design computer-based video analysis tools. He developed the two camera, real-time mixing, shooting technique for classroom videotapes for the Video Portfolio Project, which studied the feasibility of using teacher constructed portfolios of classroom videotape as a data stream for the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards. Subsequently, he created a how-to-shoot-classroom-video (Sipusic, 1996). Mr. Sipusic's dissertation research at the University of California at Berkeley is on a teacher video club which used those classroom videotapes to "talk shop" about classroom teaching. He has previously presented components of this workshop at AERA '95 (San Francisco, CA).

This tutorial will take up issues of how to analyze previously-acquired video data. This will include methods for cataloging field data and ways of using technology to annotate video records. We will use a particular set of transcription conventions used in Conversation Analysis and sometimes referred to as the "Jeffersonian system". These conventions are well-established and widely used in discourse research. By including notation for pause duration, voice inflection, and hand gestures, these conventions provide a means for "opening up" the interaction, in the same way that "fine-grained" aspects of an object can be discerned when viewed through a magnifying glass. Participants will receive hands-on experience logging and transcribing data.

Timothy Koschmann has a BA in Philosophy, a Masters in Psychology and a Ph.D. in Computer Science (IIT). He is an Associate Professor at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine where he does research on collaborative learning and the uses of technology therein. He is the editor of a recently published book on CSCL (CSCL: Theory and Practice of an Emerging Paradigm, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996). Dr. Koschmann has presented tutorials at numerous meetings, including InterCHI '93 (Amsterdam), HCI '93 (Loughborough, U.K.), ED-MEDIA '94 (Vancouver, B.C.), East/West HCI '94 (St. Petersburg, Russia), CSCW '94 (Chapel Hill, NC), and CSCL '95 (Bloomington, IN).

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