Posted in Uncategorized on May 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Alsup asks two research questions:
“How can we capitalize on the power of discourse to help out students develop rich, professional identities?” (p.41)
“What kinds of discourse can be facilitated to develop a professional identity?” (p.43)
I feel that these two questions can be very pertinent to what we are looking at….
I also have some connections to Ms. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Connecting through social-networking participation in a blog?
How were comments used to support one another? (descriptive stats)
In what ways did peers support teachers’ engagement in borderland discourses? (types of comments: “building community:” mentoring, dialoguing, connecting, encouraging, )
What types of wrestling attracted outsiders’ engagement through comments? What other types of posts attracted outsider interaction?
How do peers [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So here I was working through the data and a couple of things came to me:
IN our chart that combines affordances of blogging with NOS, there are 2 items that are prevalent in the blogs that are not as explicit in the 3rd column:
- Idea of building a shared knowledge base
- Sharing strategies and knowledge [...]
Posted in thoughts on the matter on May 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So Liz and I are both working on papers about blogging. We find ourselves crossing in our conversation often as we are trying to see the different lenses we are using. I just saw today that These two pieces fit really nicely together.
I am looking at the way that different designs of the social space [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have learned from my kids that usually if you kiss it, it makes things better:)
Well, wanted to do a quick reflection from our meeting yesterday looking at the paper and thinking about the contributions and flow. Rather than trying to incorporate two sets of data into this paper, we are going to just focus [...]
Posted in GRS Framework on May 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So, as I said in my comment, I am not sure this is the route we want to take, but I put the framework on a wikispace, which allows us to co-construct it. We can then blog about the changes we made here. If we don’t like this, no problem…just an idea.
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So, here are my [...]
