Case Studies: Weblog

September 4, 2003

what is a case study? what's in a case study? (Posted by Con at 10:58 a.m.)

These are common questions. I don't have the answers...yet. But I am beginning to see the answer is one of those "it depends" sort of things. This entry attempts to lay out some of those dependencies. [More...]

September 3, 2003

Glossary of Case Study terminology (Posted by Con at 11:48 a.m.)

I've started a glossary of case study terminology. My initial set of terms comes from Lee Shulman's excellent summary of case studies in Case Methods in Teacher Education. Please send addditions, corrections, or suggestions to me at cases@vt.edu. [More...]

September 1, 2003

History of case studies at Harvard (Posted by Con at 10:57 a.m.)

It all began at Harvard Law School in 1870, this business of case studies. John Gersh sends links to an interesting article in the Harvard Magazine tracing the history of case studies at the school that started is all in law, business, and medicine. [More...]

Back in the blog update business (Posted by Con at 10:25 a.m.)

I assume missing the entire month of August does not engender any confidence that this blog will be updated on a regular basis. But there is reason for optimisim now that fall semester HCI classes have started at Virginia Tech, the Carrolls are a fixture at Penn State, and Con is working on his dissertation in the are of case studies... [More...]

July 28, 2003

Case Studies Meeting Today (Posted by Con at 4:00 p.m.)

We discussed top-level categories for project requirements. The meeting notes are at 2003.07.28. We will have a short meeting on August 13th at 10:00 to finalize a questionaire to be sent to any HCI instructors we can find. [More...]

July 15, 2003

keeping this log current (Posted by Con at 5:47 p.m.)

This weblog requires many manual operations to add entries. Additionally, I would like to be able to add categories to better classify several of the entries. [More...]

July 7, 2003

some Approaches to Blogging in bridge (Posted by Con at 3:39 p.m.)

The kind of blog I want for the SBD/Case Studies site needs to support the time sequencing and archiving of a normal blog site, but it also needs to support the simple, wiki-like abilities of Bridge. In particular links and includes to other parts of the site need to be easy to to. I looked at external blog tools and found themn wanting. [More...]

Changed Blog Update process (Posted by Con at 3:32 p.m.)

I changed the manual update process so it is a bit more straightforward. There are more improvements needed. [More...]

July 1, 2003

abstracted entries (Posted by Con at 3:52 p.m.)

I am changing the blog to work with abstracted entries. Each entry should have a three to four line overview of the posting followed by a link to the longer, more detailed posting. This should allow readers to keep up with the flow of the project without having to read every detail. [More...]

this blog is operational (Posted by Con at 2:31 p.m.)

Though it's a manual process to create new entries and new dates, the process works well enough for now. This blog is now operational. [More...]