Training workshops typically run two days. In our experience, one day is not sufficient to cover Transana adequately, while two days allows for ample practice of all basic skills and an introduction to more advanced topics.

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

• An Introduction to Transana
  
  
• Transcription as an analytic act
  
  
• Identifying and selecting analytically interesting video segments
  
  
• Manipulating analytic collections
  
  
• Keywords and coding
  
  
• Making sense of coded data : reports, maps, and graphs
  
  
• Searching, data-mining, and hypothesis-testing
  
  
• Multiple simultaneous transcripts, multiple simultaneous media files, multiple simultaneous users, and other advanced topics
  
  
• Using Transana for presentations and case development
  
  
• Collecting video data, and the manipulation of video for use in Transana.
  

We generally assume that training participants are familiar with qualitative methodologies prior to the beginning of training. Familiarity with Transana is not required.

Upcoming Training Workshops

The training workshops we conducts are highly interactive and provide ample opportunity for hands-on practice. It is therefore essential that each participant have a computer during the workshop. We will provide a training data set, although we also encourage participants to bring their own video or audio files, in a Transana-friendly format, to work on.

Please contact David if you'd like to host a Transana Training Workshop, either privately or open to the public. If you would like to open your session to the broader Transana community, I will be happy to post information about it on this page, as well as sending an e-mail to the Transana mailing list.

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, Ph.D.
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.