Just an update about my request from yesterday. Dennis Goff suggested looking for event recorders and this was definitely good advice, with one proviso: add the term behavior. Adding that improved the search results significantly. There are a bunch of programs to be had out there, many given out for free, many apparently having been developed by some grad student or professor somewhere without ever thinking they might make some money from them. That said, I found one in particular that looks really good. It's called JWatcher http://www.jwatcher.ucla.edu/ and it can be had for free, in both Mac and Windows versions, but since it's based on Java it'll run on anything. This is a very sophisticated behavioral event recorder, and there's even a text written for it. It's got a lot of powerful analytical tools that will take some work to figure out, but in the end it should be adequate for just about any observational technique one can imagine. I just hope I can adapt it for my undergrads now. On that score, BehaviorTracker, which Dennis had originally steered me to, is probably the easiest to use, and should offer a sufficient variety of statistics to make it useful for introductory research methods. http://www.behaviortracker.com <https://webmail.uwstout.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.behaviortracker.com/> -MD
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