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Touching, stroking, and loving the iPad
Yes, I was one of ‘those’ lining up to have a play with the iPad when it got released here in Australia. I was a bit so-so about it all, but had to see for myself what all the fuss was (is) about. What I discovered was that it’s not so much about seeing for [...]
Wikipedia as style guide?
I’ve blogged previously (and here privately) about the trouble I’ve been having with citing sources in online writing in terms of style: Whether to use print conventions or hypertext conventions. The benefit of using print conventions, i.e. APA style, is that there is a style guide, and a strict one at that, standard in the [...]
Wordle for June
Oh my goodness. I can’t believe it’s June – I’m still getting used to writing “2010″ instead of “2009″! Below is a Wordle (http://www.wordle.net) generated from the beginning section of my “Methodology/Methods” chapter. As I’ve blogged before, Wordle works by generating a “word cloud” based on the frequency of words in a given text – [...]
The Penelope Syndrome
I was recently reading Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day by Joan Bolker, rather than actually writing my dissertation, and her discussion of “the Penelope syndrome” made me smile: I have named a more extreme version of this problem [inefficient writing] “the Penelope Syndrome.” Penelope, you probably remember, spent the days of Odysseus’s [...]
My PLN and those “Aha!” moments
Mid-2008, I submitted my research proposal for review and gave a panel presentation about it (nerve-wracking stuff!). In my proposal, I outlined the literature and rationale behind the study, the proposed methodology and methods, ethical considerations, research instruments, intended analysis (and analytical framework), and so on – everything you’d expect to see in a qualitative [...]
Hypertext style conventions
I’m facing the decision of whether to hyperlink to the original source or to my end-text referencing in my online writing. Becky pointed out that hyperlinking to the end text reference means that I’d be following print-text conventions whereas hyperlinking to the original source means following hypertext conventions (although these don’t seem to be written [...]
Exploring Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Download a print friendly(er) version of this essay here When I first pitched the idea to develop my doctoral dissertation as a hypertext in website form, I had no idea that this request would be considered unusual. I also had no idea that it had not been done before at my institution (that we know [...]
These are a few of my favourite things
I’ve been running (facilitating) a course for Languages teachers based on the 23 Things programme here at Murdoch University (which was in turn adapted from the http://macetg.wordpress.com/about-learning-20-mac/ project at McMaster University Library) for a year and a half now. In it we explore 23 ICT Things that are useful for learning/teaching Languages both in terms [...]
Big work, and lots of it
I had this conversation with students from Yarridale Senior High School during a focus group interview and it has really stayed with me: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Penny: So when you think of “ICTs”, what do you think of? What comes to mind? Christy: Computers. Penny: Computers? What else? Alistair: A lot [...]
Good Looking with Technology
There must be something more interesting for social scientists to do with their computers than coding data. Mason & Dicks, 2001, p. 441. And I certainly agree! I gave a “Friday Morning Seminar” presentation to the faculty of Education a couple of weeks ago in which I described how I am using technologies to research [...]
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