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AFMLTA 2011
AFMLTA 2011 Day 1
Fishing for clues vs fishing for answers
I’ve been revisiting a lot of interview data recently in working on my analysis and trying to figure out how all of this will come together. By ‘this’ I refer to THE BIG MAMMOTH OVERWHELMING THING THEY CALL A THESIS but that’s another rant for another day. I conducted these interviews in the second half [...]
The perpetual beta of CALL
I’ve been reading a bit about the hype cycle lately as I’ve been putting together my literature review for my dissertation. And since my research is all about the ‘hype’ and the ‘hyper’ of language learning and teaching with technology (in the middle-school context) it seems only fitting to have a look at the hype [...]
Update on writing an electronic thesis-dissertation
A while back I wrote an extended blog post about electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) and why I was hoping to present mine as such. Recently, one of my supervisors has been putting my case forward to those-who-make-decisions at the university and it seems that one hurdle may be that I need to hand something [...]
Anytime anywhere learning and anytime anywhere teaching
I went to the Apple University Consortium Mobility Seminar at ECU today and enjoyed the presentation by Stephen Atherton and team in which they gave a good overview of recent going-ons with Apple in higher education. The focus was on mobile learning and in particular the “magical and revolutionary” iPad and associated apps/iTunesU. Links and [...]
Choosing CAQDAS/EHE Software
I have been investigating different types of Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS) because I need a way of both creating an Ethnographic Hypermedia Environment (EHE) and also managing the data I will create and collect. I am unsure as yet whether one package will be adequate for data collation and analysis and (re)presentation, [...]
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