POTCHEFSTROOMKAMPUS
1.1 Nuwe sake
4.3.1 Projekhoof Studente/Span Etieknommer Titel
Werksverdeling
Besluit
Dr J Kruger
Prof P Kommers; Prof P Uys; Prof B Delgano; Dr M van Niekerk; Mnr C Els; Prof AS Blignaut; C Beukes; SC Beukes NWU-00109-11-A2
Using ICTs in teaching and learning in an ODL programme Prof L Meyer
Dr I van Deventer Dr B Breed
Wysiging aan etiekaansoek van dr Kruger – Me Ronel Bester se studie
Magtiging
Alhoewel dit blyk dat hierdie studie afgehandel is, is die komitee van mening dat die tema van me Bester se studie inpas by die oorsponklike projek van dr Kruger waarvoor daar alreeds etiekklaring gegee is, en dat daar nie enige etiese transgressies voorgekom het nie.
NWU-001098-11-A2
Notulehouer: Me E Conradie
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QUEENSTOWN MEETING on 26 April 2013 in Library Hall R = Researcher
R: I had invited you to come and see if you can take part in my Master’s degree because I’m here from the EC my heart is with the people here. And as we were studying and studying I discovered that I think that there are ways that NWU can maybe make life easier for the people that are in the rural areas like we are down here and I want to discover, I want to understand what are those things that NWU can help with so that for the future students our Honours degree can become more assisted in the ways that we want it right here in the EC. So the research that I am doing, is for your benefit but also for the people of the ………., you know, it is not just a short term little plan, it is for the future of more and more students that will become part of the OLG Hons programmes in the future and we want to understand what are your problems, each one of your problems at home or at your study place so that we can look at them and tell the NWU: this is the problem on ground level, here were we are at home. All right, so you understand where I’m coming from. I will explain more – how will we get there. But first thing is that you are the most important people today, and I really want to welcome you I honour it deep in my heart that you have come far ways and also that you have put the time aside to actually come and listen because you don’t know much yet of what I was saying, but you thought that your studies is so important that you will want to come and listen. And I really appreciate that from the depth of my heart.
Now as I say: I’m Ronel Bester I live in Cathcart and I’m a teacher there at the school for the Grade 4’ and the Grade 5s, all the naughty little children we try and educate them. And then I’ve got two assistants here this afternoon, Anna is my like my fieldworker, she has been assisting me all the way. She is Anna Kupa, her mother is the Deputy Principal at ……Good afternoon, are you Lettie?
Thank you very much for you place – is a pleasure, just be out before half past four – Yes we are going to rush to get there—not a second later because they have to lock here first of all ……We will do so, thank you very much Lettie – I see you have got a nice gathering here … I am so thankful! deep thankful! So Anna is the daughter of Mrs Nobuntu, that’s our Deputy Principal and, she’s a m.m.m.. a.. m..m.. educated person as well and it is so nice to have her assisting me and throughout my programme I will ask her the things that I don’t understand because I even want you to be able to.. to.. to.. write in Xhosa if you don’t have the English words to express what is your problem. And if I don’t understand, I’m going to baleka [run to]and Anna to ask to come and help me to just explain to me if I don’t understand it. And then we’ve got another young girl, Nosi and she’s just helping with photographing, because the University, because I’m with my Masters, they want to know that I didn’t make up the people that arrived at the meetings, or make up that the people are talking to me. We must validate and make it trustworthy, my work, you se. So that is why, if you mmm don’t mind, we will take some photos of you and also we are making an audio a recording of the meeting, because I can’t come and tell you lies and then go to the university and tell them something else. And they say a.a.a.a..h but now the things are not getting together. They must know what I am saying is in line with what the University wants. So are you all happy with videoing and with the photos? … Yes… Thank you very… very much.
Right, now to just explain my research. The question of my research is: How can the academic use of Facebook enhance open distance learning of rural teacher-students in the EC? So I am looking at the teachers that are students. Are all of you teachers that are studying? OK, now that is where I am looking at you are all part of O..G..O..D…ag…OLG—is that right? Yes… and that is the
vehicle of.. of North West University and then I am going to look at working though Facebook. Now Facebook, as you all know, is the social media. Now who of you is part of Facebook already? Who knows Facebook? Ok, thank you very much, there is one man. Now we are going—that’s why I have got these two young girls here because they must teach us how to work the Facebook thing.
Now the only thing with Facebook is that you must have either your laptop or your cell-phone or i- pad, or anything that can connect to the internet. Now have you got something to connect to the internet? Can I see a show of hands? Ok, right, because that is the thing that we are going to use.
I’m calling it Facebook is the car, is that taxi that we are going to jump into and we are going to say from this side, there is a wide river and on that side is the end of your research programme. And the taxi that is going to take us over the bridge is the Facebook. All right, and therefore we need to be able to connect on the internet, on Facebook. Ok? Now, I’m not going to call it Facebook, we are going to call it FaceFunda—siya Funda mos….ok… so on Facebook, we are going to Funda, so that we can get from this place where we are not sure up to the place where we can actually submit our work. Now the next thing I need to know from you who of you, in this semester, must
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do your proposal? Can I see? It is one, two, three, four, five, ok Anna help me count please, 1,2,3,4,5,6, 7,…10,11. Let us see how many? 12 that must do the proposal. Yes the proposal.
That’s about 13. Ok and then who must do their research project? That has already done the proposal, you’ve got your marks or you are going to get your marks and they are going to say you’re passed and you can do your project. That is Portia. Thank you so much. And the lady there.
All right, so we’ve got 2 on the research, so I think as my main focus, we are going to look at the proposal. Now if I can quickly show you your proposal, when you are finished, needs to be about 15 pages, ne? and that is all the pages of the proposal that you will have to be submitting. So that you can get a mark to go on to your research project. All right, so your proposal is your first step of getting the… the right away to do the research. Ok. Now can I just quickly interrupt myself? Pottie has been coming a-long with me and I would just like her to say something in a little short while how did it go when we were working together? Just so that you can understand that I’m not doing this for myself, I am doing it for the big picture of serving the community that I’m living in. All right, so Pottie, just give us a short little,….
Pottie: Can I speak Xhosa?
R: Hmmm… [Pottie speaks in Xhosa].
Pottie: Can I speak Xhosa? She hears us. I greet you all, I am mother Nobomo. This mother Bester, we got together last year, actually we saw each other when we were writing our exams at the Moth Hall, I saw her coming out late, and I thought I must look after her. then we went to write CEPS and went to her – that exam was an open book exam of Learner Support, and for the first time I saw that she put markers in her book so that she could find the information easily. Like in a book, she knows what was written there because the marker is there, easy to find the work you are looking for. And then after that exam we were going to write APLS and that was very difficult and there is a form of 15 pages but we didn’t understand that form, then I went to her again and asked her to help us with that form. Even with that she didn’t have a problem. We didn’t have a place to work in Queenstown, then she organised this Hall and we worked here. Then the research project came and we phoned her and she was willing to help. We also went to her in Cathcart. She is somebody her dosnt make problems. Then once I went to her, she accommodated me and she helped me. She is the kind of person that is willing to help people.
That is right, thank you so much, that is what I needed, I needed to let you understand I’m not doing it for myself. All right, I really am putting out—as I said to Tuli that time to, we are taking hands and we are walking on because education in our country and I think you all know in the Eastern Cape that we really need to lift our levels so we can get the children to lift their levels so that all of the Eastern Cape reports can be better. And I honour people that come to …
hmmm…come to….hmmm…to..to.. study further. Now all of you’ve got this little book. Now my notes that I’m going to show you on the board comes out of the little book that says to you, all the guidelines of how to do your report, how to do the proposal. All right, so it is not as if I am taking out other things from other books, it is the North West work that we are doing. So all right, I want to explain also that …that h..m..m..m.., good afternoon ladies, hmmm… that: 00:13:28
Le taxi ikhona apha numglange, itsho phoop-phoop, phoop-phoop, mane kwele, mane kwele, sio hamba kho lendow, sio hamba kho landow. Difuna nina ni yase kaukgle, ni kwaso pasa esinto, andifuna lanto umto o failayo, failishayo, because then you get despondent, and o y yeka lanto.
And asi funi into enjalo. Ok? si funa o hamba phanbile, siase kowghle lento, nawe uachonda, naywo oya hanba bhambile.
Le taxi ilapha ngoku namhlanje ithi ph…. Yizani nizokukhwela! Sizaku suka apha siye phaya.
Ndifuna nonke nazi kakuhle ukwenzela nikwazi ukuziphumelela ezi zinto. Andifuni ningaphumeleli ,
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[This taxi is here today, its saying phoop-phoop, phoop-phoop, come and get in, come and get in, we are going from this place to that place! I want all of you to know nicely so that you can pass these things. I do not want you to fail it, because then you get despondent, and eventually you leave it. And I don’t want it to be like that. Ok? We must all go forward, so that everyone knows these things—you must understand the work so that you can go forward yourself.] All right? Now the first thing that this taxi’s going to do—FaceFunda is the name of the taxi—all right?, and on that bridge, we are going to stop every week. We are going to stop and we are going to say: “Ok, how does it look on the outside of this taxi for this week”. And that week we are going to concentrate on a piece of the whole module. Now the first place where this taxi is going to stop is in week 1 at the Research question and the background. We are going to look over the Facebook, all right?, we are
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going to create a group where you are only to be part of this group where other people won’t know what we are talking about. And that week we will talk about the title of your research. Whether you are doing the Learner Support, whether you are doing Curriculum, whether you are doing the Management, it doesn’t matter, you will do your own inside information, but I will guide you on how to create your research question, how to get the background, how to make the statement of the problem. What is the problem you are looking at in this research? We will look at the motivation for the research: why? Oteni uyafuna ojonga lento? Kutheni ufuna ukujonga kule? [Why do you want to look at this thing?] You are going to be helped, guided all the way. The purpose of the research, is also what do you want to achieve when you have finished with t? And then the last part of that section will be the research question. So for a whole week we will be looking at that part of the research. The taxi is going to stop and the work that you will have to do is talk on Facebook what is your problem what don’t you understand, what can somebody help me? I don’t know if I must put how? Or what? Or which? And then you eventually will help each other on Facebook saying I think it is better to use how? Or it is better to use when? Do you understand? So Facebook is the taxi, you can’t just phone me and ask me what must I do now? We are going to be in the taxi of FaceFunda, all right? And it is on Facebook that you ask your questions, and you say “Oh, but I saw something in the newspaper” or something like that. So you are going to communicate with each other on Facebook which is formed a group, we will…I will invite you, who want to be part of it, onto that group-page. So nobody else will see what is happening in our Facebook. Because it is a closed thing, it is just us and when my research is finished, North West will see what was the questions that we were looking at? What were the difficulties that you were experiencing? So that’s my research. Right, week 2: we will look at the literature review. We will discuss what is it? I will explain first that first, 10 th of May, I will explain to you what happens in the literature review, how do you do it? Where do you find information? How do you write it? But during the week, you must talk on FaceFunda and ask questions. And support each other. Someone will say: “Yo, di diniwe, andi funa o sebenza galento,yho! Ndidiniwe andifuni kusebenza ngalento… [Sjoe, I’m tired and I don’t want to work with this thing anymore] and then someone else is going to say: “Haybo, mase hambe, asiyo dinwa” Haybo masisebenze [No man, come let us keep going, we must get tired].
All right, so we are going to support each other on this Facebook and the car’s name is
FaceFunda. Then in the 3rd week we will look at the methodology, o..o..o.. it is such as big word, but it is the method , it is the theory, that you find in that pink book that you’ve got. And that pink book I will guide you as well but you will help each other, saying a..a..a..h I got something on page 104, and the other one will say: “No, on page 189 was better explained”. So you will help each other, not by giving the answers but guiding each other. Ok, she’ll be away now. Methodology is the method the theory of the research design, the worldviews, the qualitative method, you that have passed your FOER, will know qualitative, quantitative and mixed method. Now we must do qualitative according to the little book, and you must do the case study. All right, they don’t give us a choice there, but you can do anything in between, and then also is the sample. Is who are the people you are going to ask questions; we will discuss that on Facebook on our Facefunda. So this is the work that we will do in week three. I will leave them on, and if there is time, actually write them down afterwards as well. And then in week 4 we are going to do the data collection. Now the data collections, that are what I’m doing with you, it is getting the information from real people.
You can’t make up and say: “but I have spoken to 10 people, who are they? Where did you find them? We must be validating our research and that why I’ve got the camera today, and the audio, so that they can know I didn’t play-play a meeting, it was real. That is what it’s all about.
So in the data-collection, we will look at how will you gather the information from the participants, will you be doing interviews, or will they just fill in the open-ended questionnaire. So we will then discuss that. So the taxi this, you must know, this is all the taxi going over the bridge, over the bridge and we stop every week and we look at that work for the whole week and the next Friday we will start with the new work, and the next Friday, the next work. SI every week we will have other work to do. In Week 5 we will look at the data analysis. And then the last week is week 6, were we will do the bibliography. Now I’m sure that most of you have struggled all the time with all your assignments with the bibliography. That thing, he wants to trip you all the time, it’s a terrible thing, but it’s going to be easy on Facebook. Because we can ask each other and help each other.
Ok. And then I am going to interrupt you. Please look at the last day that is week 7. From next week on. The date will be 14/15 May that day we will have a meeting again. A Face-to-face focus group meeting and that day we will talk to each other. Up to that day, we are going to sms, or we