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 [...]
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Fitting two papers together
Posted in thoughts on the matter on May 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
GRS theoetical framework of blogging… a work in progress
Posted in thoughts on the matter on April 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Jeremiah posted a summary of what we had been working on with respect to the connection between blogging and new media liteacies as a starting point. Liz has also been wrestling with the recognition aspect of identity development work. Thanks to both! I’m hoping we can use this post to bring much [...]
Social space vs identity
Posted in thoughts on the matter on April 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So after conversations on Friday I saw that I was shifting my focus on my article from that of looking to the participation/ recognition/identity work to that of a social space framework. This shift is not a shift away from identity. I view identity as something that is inherent in all aspects of interaction. We [...]
New Media Literacies applied to Blogging
Posted in Literature, thoughts on the matter on April 25, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Here is some copy and paste from work I just did up from the work that April and I have done. Love some thoughts comments etc.
Research on blogs, wikis and other Web 2.0 tools are typically situated within the concept of what some refer to as new media literacies (Gee, 1996; Lankshear & Knobel, 2007). [...]
Thinking about data
Posted in analyzing blogs, thoughts on the matter, ways to look at the data on April 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I just posted a comment to Liz’s post that was more conceptual…so now I will jump into some procedural.
First let me try to refine the question: When looking at EMI- Learning through Social Networking Technologies.
My first instinct (due to my own research focus) would be : How are learning trajectories developed in classroom blogs?
Ummm…But in [...]
Posting from an Email from April
Posted in GRS Framework, thoughts on the matter, ways to look at the data on April 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I rapidly posted this to get it up here, Sorry for not commenting on it, I will later. I have a ton to get done. Perhaps we can discuss some if this a little tomorrow during our work session.
“Mark Windschitl requires his students to conduct their action research / lesson study work at the level [...]
Operationalization of reform-based science teaching: Another take
Posted in Literature, thoughts on the matter on April 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We all have been working with Mark Windschitl’s dilemmas and they have informed our work to the core. April and I have been talking about some of his other work presented at a conference that also seems powerful (as the dilemmas?). The four themes are:
1. Selecting “Big Ideas” in Science: This is the degree to which participants [...]
Blogging Work
Posted in analyzing blogs, thoughts on the matter on April 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This post is a quick ‘reset’ if you will. I am returning to the work done this past fall and then continued in terms of data collection through the every moving now. So to use a common starting point:
The story goes like this……
Original question: How are blogs used in science classrooms?
Current Questions: What type of [...]
analyzing the blogs
Posted in analyzing blogs, thoughts on the matter, ways to look at the data on October 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
hello team,
4 down, 1 left, (eric r, who writes a LOT, but its a good thing!). before i begin with eric’s, thinking i might not be able to finish it in time, thought of briefly explaining my rationale for analyzing the blogs the ways i have done. before jumping to ms frizzle’s code, i thought [...]
