Fwd: NVIVO Workshop at Tufts

Please forward to anyone who may be interested in an introduction to NVivo. I believe NVivo is now or soon or in the discussion of being available for students to use at the Curriculum Lab.

Clement

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Clement Chau

Doctoral Researcher, Lab Manager

DevTech Research Group

Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development

Tufts University

clement.chau@tufts.edu

Begin forwarded message:

From: Raymond Hyatt <rhyatt01@tufts.edu>

Date: September 29, 2008 10:34:07 AM EDT

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Subject: NVIVO Workshop at Tufts

Hello Qualitative Researchers,

The Boston Obesity and Nutrition Research Center (BONRC) Clinical and Community Research Core and Department of Public Health and Family Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine are hosting an
NVIVO Workshop: a two-day hands-on workshop on one of the most popular and widely used qualitative software programs, NVIVO version 8.0.

This two-day workshop, November 13 and 14, 2008, will be lead by Silvana di Gregorio, founder and president of sdg Associates, London, England. Silvana is known to us through Professor Raymond Hyatt who Heads the BONRC qualitative research unit and who will facilitate the workshop and be on-hand to help with any questions or problems.

Attached to this email is the full two-day schedule from sdg Associates. The seminar is limited to 10 participants in order to provide individual-level instruction. It is recommended that participants have some experience with qualitative research and preferably are currently involved with a qualitative data project. A sample project will be presented at the workshop; participants are not required to bring a data set to use during the sessions. Please review the attached schedule for specifics of the two-day workshop.

Workshop costs will be subsidized for BONRC members. Please note, however, that the cost for any participant reflects a substantial discount from the typical price ($650) for this workshop when it is held in Boston.

For more information and/or an application, please contact Professor Hyatt at 617.636.3926 or by email (Raymond.Hyatt@Tufts.edu).

(9/26/08) Annual Fall Department Party - October 5th 5-8 pm

Dear Students,

Fall Party for all Child Development
faculty, staff, graduate students and their families

Sunday, October 5th
5:00 - 8:00 pm
9 Locust Avenue
Lexington, MA

Hosted by Fred & Vickie Rothbaum

Please RSVP to Debbie Haskard at deborah.haskard@tufts.edu by
September 26th. Thank you.

Directions from E-P:
Take a right out of E-P onto College Ave and go one block to Boston
Ave, and take a right. Go one mile on Boston Ave. to Alewife Brook
Parkway (Route 16), and turn left. Stay on Route 16 for 1.5 miles
(the first right after Mass Ave) to Route 2, and take a right. Go 3.5
miles on Route 2 (west) until the first Lexington exit (routes 4 &
225). At the end of the exit ramp, turn right and proceed .7 miles
until you
cannot go further--that is Mass Ave. Turn left on Mass Ave and go .4
miles to Locust Ave (there is a fire station on your left at the
corner). Turn left on Locust, and our house is the third one on the
right--#9.

Mary Ellen

(9/24/08) Child's Right to Thrive Free Screening

Exclusive Film Screening: Born Into Brothels
With Special Guests, Avijit from the film & Rebecca Burton from Kids
with Cameras
Thursday Oct. 2
Cohen Auditorium
FREE
3:30pm Screening
5:00pm Q&A Session

In Calcutta's red light district appears a group of unforgettable
children. Feisty, resilient and wickedly funny - they are the children
of prostitutes. Trying to evade a doomed future, they embark on a
transformational journey with New York based photographer Zana Briski,
who teaches them photography. This humorous and heartfelt story
portrays the power of art and the courage of those willing to change
their own lives. Visit http://www.kids-with-cameras.org/home/

Co-sponsored by Child's Right to Thrive, Institute for Global
Leadership & Tufts Hillel.
For further information email us at crt@tufts.edu

(9/23/08) ECE Colloquium Mon 9/29 1:15-3pm

**Message from Moncrieff Cochran, Acting Director of Early Childhood
Education**

Dear Graduate Student,

This message is to announce the first in a 4 part colloquium series on
Equity and Early Childhood Education.

The opening colloquium is as follows:

Title: Conceptualizing Equity in Early Childhood Education
Presenters: Members of the ECE Steering Committee: Mon Cochran, Chip
Gidney, Jayanthi Mistry, Debbie LeeKeenan, Mary Eisenberg, Ellen
Pinderhughes
Place: EP Stevens Library, Room 157
Time: Monday, September 29th, 1:15 - 3 pm

As many of you know, the Department's Early Child Program is being re-
conceptualized following a departmental review and re-visioning
process. Based on this process, the steering committee guiding this
new conceptualization has chosen the concept of equity as a framework
within which to consider new directions in research, community
collaboration, and practice during the 2008-09 academic year. In this
first Equity and Early Childhood Education colloquium we will begin by
offering participants several different lenses through which to view
equity issues related to early education, drawing in part from a
recent paper by Dr. Lynn Kagan (Columbia and Yale Universities). We
encourage you to read this paper through prior to the colloquium.
Following our presentation we will invite participants to provide
feedback on our thoughts, and share your own ideas about what we know
and need to know regarding how ECE might respond to issues of equity
in the lives of young children.

If you would like a copy of this paper emailed to you, email Sarah
Jung (sarah.jung@tufts.edu) and she can forward a copy to you.

(9/22/08) Trivia Night at Johnny D's

Hello Everyone!
Just a reminder, there is a GSA sponsored social event this evening!
Come join your fellow students in a night of Trivia at Johnny D's
(located in Davis Square)! Show up at 7:45 for free pizza, trivia
starts at 8:30.
Hope to see you all there!
-The GSA

(9/17/08) Student Teaching Info Session SP'09

Student Teaching
Spring 2009

CD Majors and MAT students in the Pre-K-2 Program who are planning to
student teach in the Spring of 2009 should plan to attend an

INFORMATION SESSION on
Tuesday, October 7th @ 3:00pm in the
Curriculum Lab
Rm. #129

For further info contact Debbie LeeKeenan @ Debbie.Leekeenan@tufts.edu
617-627-3434

(9/16/08) Child Development GSA Events in Sept/Oct

Hello Everyone!
We the GSA just wanted to let you know about some upcoming social
events we have planned. The events are very low-key, just a little
time to hang out and get to know each other and forget about
schoolwork for a while. Anyone is welcome to attend-just show up! Here
is the schedule of upcoming events:

Monday September 22nd 7:45 pm-Trivia Night at Johnny D's! Come eat
free pizza and test your trivia knowledge!

Wednesday October 1st 7 pm-Bowling at Lanes and Games!

Thursday October 9th 6pm-A GSC sponsored Pub Night at the Joshua Tree.
Enjoy free wings and drink specials alongside a raffle of special
prizes for the first 50 people to show up!

We also have in the works a Halloween Party at the end of October, and
later on Wish-Upon-A-Star, and the end of semester Wine-and-Cheese.
More info will follow for those events as the semester continues.
Thanks everyone!

-The GSA