Inquiry & Reflection for Better Learning
It was a real treat to get to spend an hour in conversation with some of my blogging and writing teachers on Thursday. We were assembled at Connected Learning TV by Jabiz to talk about student blogging. I hope we get to have round two soon – there was plenty more to talk about. Here’s […]
Read More Follow Up to Today’s (Well, Okay, Yesterday’s) Blogging ConversationEarlier today, I received final approval of the final draft of my thesis, “Wait, Am I Blogging?”: An Examination of School-Sponsored Online Writing Spaces, which I defended back in October. Successfully ((With distinction, according to my committee. I was honored. Still am.)). So. I’ll have a Master of Arts after graduation in December. I started […]
Read More Wait, I Wrote a Thesis?I’m taking a break from writing up the implications portion of my thesis by coming over here to write some more. I’m beginning to get to the place in my research that I have some definite things to say about what I found out. But I’m having some trouble saying them. Not because I know […]
Read More Ruminations on Implications: Notes from the ThesisAt the risk of getting a little too meta, I’m going to be talking through my history of thinking about linking, or conective writing, today during CyberCamp as a part of our series of “Works in Progress” conversations. I’m inviting you, if you’re interested, mostly to help me model how a backchannel and uStream conversation […]
Read More WiP#0 – Talking 'bout Thinking 'bout LinkingIt was about a year ago that I wrote a piece for English Journal on teaching “blogging” vs. “writing with blogs” that was pretty much a re-hash of some blog posts that I thought were saying something. The trouble is, I wasn’t sure what they were saying. I’ve been fumbling at this one for a […]
Read More Thinking ’bout LinkingSpoke to my graduate school advisor about my thesis today. I completed my coursework a year ago and am a thesis away from getting my Master’s degree. It’s not been going too terribly well. The problem, in addition to moving twice and having a baby, is that I get pulled away by […]
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