Final call...a few seats left. Graduate students are strongly encouraged and faculty are welcome. APSA 2009 Short Course "Coding the Blogosphere: Introducing the Coding and Blog Analysis Toolkits" Time: Wednesday September 2, 1-5 pm, Venue: American Political Science Association (APSA) 2009 Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada Location at APSA: Convention Centre 201B Dr. Stuart Shulman is the founder of the Qualitative Data Analysis Program (QDAP), which is a fee-for-service coding lab co-located at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. QDAP and QDAP-UMass staff and coders work on coding projects funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other U.S. funding agencies. He has been the Principal Investigator and Project Director on related National Science Foundation-funded research projects focusing on electronic rulemaking, human language technologies, manual annotation, digital citizenship, and service-learning efforts in the United States. At the APSA 2009 Short Course, Dr. Shulman will lead a hands-on (your lap top) training introducing to the Coding Analysis Toolkit (CAT), a free, web-based service designed to facilitate the measurement and reporting the reliability and validity of work completed by multiple coders. He will also introduce the Blog Analysis Toolkit (BAT), which is also a free system designed to capture blog posts and archive them for analysis in CAT. For more information, see: http://www.qdap.pitt.edu/ (QDAP) http://www.umass.edu/qdap/ (QDAP-UMass) http://www.qdap.pitt.edu/cat.htm (Coding Analysis Toolkit) https://surveyweb2.ucsur.pitt.edu/qblog/page_login.php (Blog Analysis Toolkit) http://people.umass.edu/stu/ (Dr. Shulman’s Home Page) To register: Faculty - $25; Grad Students - $10 (Payment on site is acceptable) Checks should be made out to University of Massachusetts Amherst and sent to: Michelle Sagan Goncalves (mgoncalves@pubpol.umass.edu) 200 Hicks Way Thompson Tower Amherst, MA 01003