If you are interested in arranging Transana training or on-site technical assistance, please contact David Woods. We rarely sponsor or initiate Transana trainings ourselves, but are happy to provide public or private training sessions on using Transana. We can also help with Transana-MU installation.

Training sessions typically run two days, though if all the participants are part of the same research project, a third day to discuss project-specific implementation can be helpful. In our experience, one day is simply not sufficient to cover all of Transana adequately, so we do not offer a single-day training program option.

In a typical training session, we cover the following topics:

• Introduction: The qualitative analysis of video in 4 acts
  
  
• Preparing video for use with Transana
  
  
• Transcription as an analytic act
  
  
• Identifying and selecting analytically interesting video segments
  
  
• Manipulating analytic collections
  
  
• Keywording and coding
  
  
• Searching, data-mining, and hypothesis-testing
  
  
• Sharing results with collaborators and colleagues
  
  
• Using Transana for presentations and case development
  

We generally assume that training participants are familiar with qualitative methodologies prior to the beginning of training.

The training sessions we conduct are highly interactive and have ample opportunity for hands-on practice. Therefore, we find that it is essential that each participant have a computer during the training session. We encourage participants to bring their laptops even when the session is being held in a computer lab, as that allows participants to leave with a practice database they can refer to later. We will provide CDs with Transana and with training data. However, we encourage participants to bring their own video or audio files to work on if it is in a Transana-friendly format (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVI, MOV, MP4, MP3, and WAV on both platforms, and WMV and WMA on Windows only).

If you want, you can open your session to the Transana community, and we'll post information about it on this page, as well as sending an e-mail to the Transana mailing list.

Scheduled Training Sessions

Please contact David if you'd like to host a Transana Training Workshop, either privately or open to the public.

"Official" Transana Trainers

David Woods, Ph.D.
David is Transana's Lead Developer. He is a Researcher at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in the USA. He's provided Transana workshops all over the world ranging from two to five days in length.

Paul Dempster
Paul Dempster is currently a Research Fellow at the Leeds Institute of Health Sciences at the University of Leeds in the UK. He has conducted Transana Training Workshops with international audiences, and provides methological consultation regarding new features for Transana.

Hayley Barnes
Hayley is an accomplished Transana user, currently working with the Center for Assessment and Evaluation at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, while working on her Ph.D. in Education.

Fleur van der Houwen
Fleur currently works for Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam in the Department of Language and Communication. She is also responsible for Transana's Dutch translation.