Mine What You Find Strategy 3

>> For this third strategy,

let's think loud about what
we do to mine articles.

I found this really awesome article in
Google Scholar and I downloaded it.

Now I'm wondering how I can find a
literature connected to this article,

because this is right on the topic
of what I want to be researching.

I'm going to go through the article,

I'm going to look for other keywords,

maybe there is keywords here,

they look pretty much what
I've been using before,

but one thing that drew
me to this article was,

it said it talked about boundary crossing.

So here is some quotes
about boundary practices.

Here is a whole section on boundary spaces,

boundary crossing and
professional learning.

This is melding those two
topics that I'm interested

in so I want to go down
and find this article,

because this looks like the seminal
article about boundary spaces.

I'm going to go all the way to
the end and I'm going to look at

the references and here this is the
reference for that Akkerman article.

I'm going to select that
and I'm going to go to

Google Scholar and I'm going to
put that into Google Scholar,

I guess for publishing they had
separated it and there it is.

I can get this article at the UU,

so I click here and I can
download that article and look,

this article has been
cited 1,620 times since

2011 so this looks like a really
good article that I want to read.

This will give me some
subtopic information about

how third space professionals
and boundary crossing interact.

I'm going to go back to this article,

let's see what else I can find,

here is a book and this one
looks like professional change,

which also I think has to
do with boundary crossing.

So I'm going to copy that and
I'm going to put that into

the library catalog and see
if I can find that book.

Any books you can put in here and
see if we can find them and look,

there it is, we have an online copy of it,

so I can click that and
since it's an eBook,

I can be in my pajamas at two o'clock in

the morning reading this book from home.

Here is the book and one awesome thing
about eBooks is I can go to read online

and then I can search within
the topic if I want to.

Here is my little search field,

let me see what chapters we have,

this one, Investigating
a Professional Identity.

This one looks pretty good.

Can I get rid of this menu here?

Maybe not.

So this looks like a good
chapter and I'm going to click

PDF and I'm going to download
the current chapter.

Now I have a chapter from a book and I

have one of the first
articles that came out about

boundary crossing and you can go through

the references and mine these
references for other articles.

This one is a qualitative study,

so I could look for this book in the
library or I might want to go back

here and maybe do and qualitative research.

I'm going to put up and I
have to spell and correctly,

that would be helpful.

I'm just going to do boundary
crossing and qualitative research.

Now it's going to show
me qualitative studies,

this one is actually published in a
journal called qualitative research.

I can look at boundary crossing seems
to be a qualitative topic, doesn't it?

I wonder if it's an
autoethnography topic too,

because that's the research that

I'm doing which is a method
of qualitative research.

Yes, there is illegal traveler:
an autoethnography of borders,

teacher development and autoethnography,

so here I can download these.

This TESOL Quarterly though
I don't know if this is

really a scholarly journal,

doesn't sound right to me,

so I'm going to copy that.

I'm going to go back to
the library catalog,

I'm going to go to databases
and I'm going to go to U for

Ulrich's and I'm going
to put that journal into

here and see if that is
a scholarly journal,

and there it is, and it is.

Any journal that has this black shield,

which means refereed, so it's
refereed or peer reviewed,

it's a scholarly journal.

There is something out of
Australia called TESOL news,

maybe that's the one I was
thinking of that's not scholarly.

So that's also a way that you can check

if these journals are
scholarly journals or not.

This looks promising too
for my research topic.

Then we'll go on to strategy number 4.