Exploring Research worksheet

You are required to complete the tasks on this sheet and place the content in your website section called
RESEARCH. You will be looking at three sections, these should be clear on the page. They are in RED on this
document.

Task 1/3: Tools

You are required to think about each of the following tools for research and talk about advantages, disadvantages and show
an example. A table has been included to help with this, or you can create headings on the Weebly page for each one.
Write detailed answers for each box and add an image for each example (this could be a photo, logo, etc).

Tool Advantage Disadvantage Example (with photo/url evidence)

 No need for  Need to travel
internet/power to library to
source access it
 Librarians  May not have
 Concentration book you
LRC
is easy want
 Access to  Information
technology might be
outdated
 Limited use
 Portable  Information
 Doesn’t require might be
power/internet outdated
 Specialised  Finite amount
information of information
 No knowledge  Can be
barrier in terms difficult to
Books of use read The Illusion Of Life (12 Principles)
 Index, content  Fragile + can
etc. be easily
 More reliable damaged
than internet  Not good for
environment
 Can be
expensive
 Almost  Technical
limitless barrier to
information access
 Easy to access  Can be false
 Access almost information
whenever you  Technological
need knowledge
 Back up barrier
Web research  Information
 Can be can be
updated overwhelming
 Get books  Sometimes
online can’t find
what you
want
 Easily can get
distracted
 Huge amount  Dislike button
of information removed
 Infographics  Could be
 Good for outdated
Youtube different  Adverts being
learning styles longer and
 Easy to longer
navigate  Production
 Comment quality may Link
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 Free to access  CLICKBAIT
 Can see step by  Emphasis on
step how to do monetisation
stuff can reduce
 View at own quality
pace  Video can be
removed
 Subtitles are
not consistent
 People will  A lot of bot
answer a activity
question you  Toxic people
ask on the
 Find shared internet
information  Biased
Social
 Not geo locked information
media/forum
 Have “debates”  Censorship
 Ask for help  Viruses can be
 Can be up to on sketchy
the minute websites
 Wide audience  Easily
potential distracted
 Documentaries  Finite amount
 High of content
production  Must pay
quality  Could have
Streaming  Decent variety adverts
services  Actual events
can be
dramatized
 Content can b
geo locked
 Behind-the-  Outdated
scenes content technology
added  Easy to
 Watch the film damage
how it was  Easy to lose
originally  Price barrier
intended  Amount of
DVD/BluRay  Easy to watch information is
at any time finite
 Not much  Additional
technical content can
barrier for age be removed
groups
 Portable

Task 2/3: Methods

This time think about each of the methods in the table below and consider what the benefits and drawbacks of them are.

Method Advantage Disadvantage

 If in person, make person doing it feel  People might not answer it
engaged  Can give you unhelpful answers
 Get lots of results  Can take time
Conducting
 Can be specific on what you’re asking
survey
 Make easy comparisons
 Get multiple viewpoints
 Internet not necessary
Interviewing  Build on knowledge  People can take offense to various
people  Find peoples interests questions
  If interviewing professional, can get very  Time constraints
detailed information  Can be no flow and make it awkward
 Get opinions on people who aren’t  Can be dangerous
mainstream
 Freedom from media scrutiny  Arguing
 Wide variety of opinions can help you find  Can be interrupted a lot
solutions more quickly + effectively  Conversations can get side tracked
Group
 Multiple perspectives + viewpoints  Some people can be ignorant to other
discussions
perspectives
 People may not want to partake
 Can make people uncomfortable
 Can be very specific  Time consuming
 You can trust your own research  Expensive
Primary  Gather varied viewpoints  Travel barriers
research  You can choose nature of responses  Can be limited
 Answers can change depending on who
you ask
 Someone else has done it for you  May lead to plagiarism
 More convenient  Reliability
Secondary
 Super easy to access  Can’t be as focused as primary
Research
 Easily accessible  May not find exact answer you need
 Can be done by experts
 More detail  Takes longer to get through and make
Qualitative
 Useful for quotes comparisons
Data
 Not as exact
 Easier to compare large numbers of  May need to provide more information
Quantitative
responses before people can answer
Data
 Purity to numbers  Harder to detect false answers

Task 3/3: Skills

Finally, think about what skills you should be working on when conducting research. You can consider the animation you’ll
be making when answering these questions if it helps.

Skill How I will do this

Finding the Online forms and social media will be easy to contact people from. Younger demographics will be my
right audience focus.
to ask
Asking the What is an animation that made you happy? What is an animation that made you sad? Why do you
right think these animations made you feel these ways? Qualitative questions like this will work for this.
questions
Interpreting Looking at each response and comparing them against each other will allow me to see trends in the
the answers answers
usefully