5+Share

**Share**
====In the next phase of participatory action research, “Share,” the students move from working on their own, to sharing their work with their fellow co-researchers. This involves several tasks, including:====

====**Transferring photos**: At your next meeting, bring a laptop or tablet computer (e.g., iPad), or reserve time at one of the college’s computer labs so that you can upload students’ images or audio clips onto the computer and view them together. In this section you will find instructions for students on how to upload and edit their images and video clips (see Trimming instructions ==== David: Should I make this a link to a recorded tutorial using Adobe Presenter? (Breeze?)

====**Organizing student work**: File organization is one of the key activities for the research facilitator, and it will make it much easier to assist students through each phase. A foldering system will help you keep track of each student’s brainstorming ideas, photos and video clips, and captions or narratives. Start a file on your desktop for each student’s work. Then help students to transfer the file of their work to the flash drive you provided in the PAR toolkit. By doing this, you each have a copy of the files.====

Pullout quote: Organizing participants' documents is a key activity for the research facilitator, and it will make it much easier to assist students through each phase.
====**Reviewing and explaining photos**: Once the photos or audio files have been uploaded and filed, remind students that this project is less about the quality of the pictures or audio clips and more about why they are important. Also remind students that, if they choose to, they can use the camera or digital recorder again to re-do a photo or audio clip.====

====**Selecting and prioritizing photos**: After the student has had a chance to review all the photos, ask him or her to select 5-7 photos that they would like to share with other student researchers. These photos should help others understand what the student think about going to college.====

====**Choosing a research website**: Once student researchers have selected the photos they want to share, decide how they will access each other's photos. If they are meeting face-to-face, you could combine all the photos to develop a slideshow so that students can take turns presenting their photos. However, the students you are working with are more likely attending different colleges or have tight schedules, so using a photo-sharing or digital-storytelling site that they can access from their own computers is highly recommended. There are some examples listed in the Resources section.====

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====“__A Word about Using Photo-Sharing Websites in PAR Work__”. There are a number of advantages to use a website such as Dropbox, Wikipages, or VoiceThread to hold students' PAR work. For one thing, having one place to review and work with data makes it easy for students to find all their work in one place. Additionally, fellow researchers can not only access each others' work but also comment on the work. An important factor to keep in mind, though, when choosing a site is how you can assure the students' privacy and security of their work. All the sites identified earlier in this section- Dropbox, Wikipages and VoiceThread can be made public or private. Other sites, such as Facebook groups, may not be private or are not as easily programmed to be private. When selecting an online format to store students' work, be sure you have chosen a site that is as secure as locking the work in a file cabinet==== Link to PowerPoint Tutorial for VoiceThread

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David: I think this has been recorded so I'll try to find the link. If I can't. I'll re-record. ====**Sharing photos**: Once a photo-sharing site such as Voicethread, Flikr, Picasa has been selected to share images and comments, an account should be established specifically for this research. Then you will have a password-protected link to this website that you can share with the students. Once they have the link, you can then help students to access the site, set up an account, and upload the images they’ve selected to share with other students.====

====**Captioning and commenting on photos**: When the students have finished uploading their photos, show them how to add captions. Some photo-sharing sites, such as VoiceThread, offer several captioning options. These include typing captions in, phoning them in, using the computer’s webcam to record them, or using a computer microphone to record a caption and other comments about the photo.==== Sample completed Think College VoiceThread ====**Determining if more photos are needed** : Before completing this phase with the student, ask if he or she needs the camera again to take any additional photos for the PAR project. Some students find that an important photo does not meet their expectations or that they now have new ideas. They should have the opportunity to take the camera one more time to finish their data collection.====