I wanted to congratulate our most recent graduates. Doug on obtaining his M.Ed. degree–he convocated in June (and I want to apologize for my time lag in responding :), and to Bruce who successfully completed his Dissertation defence today–Dr Forrester…
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Technology and teacher education at CSSE
The last few days I have spent at CSSE, in particular at Technology and Teacher Education (TATE) sessions. We had a pre-conference day for people doing research in this area to share ideas and their research interests and so a…
When is a theory really a model and who cares about either?
From Wikipedia A theory makes generalizations about observations and consists of an interrelated, coherent set of ideas and models. In science, a theory is a proposed model, explanation or description of the manner of interaction of a set of natural…
ECOO 2006
Had a good day at ECOO http://www.ecoo.org on Friday. The presentation I gave called Why Reading is even more important in the Digital Age can be found here Download ppt file I also met some people interested in developing a…
Educational Technology Journals–reading and publishing
Some suggested Journals and Conferences relevant to Education and Technology In North America, the conference and journals of the American Education Research Association (AERA) give you a finger on the pulse of where educational research as a field is heading.…
What is the dissertation for?
Simply put, the dissertation is a doctoral candidates’ most elaborate excursion into all the aspects of the research process. Each step is really important and refines and develops a range of research related skills: the development and refinement of a…
What is a PhD anyway?
It has been occurring to me that one of the myriad pieces of tacit knowledge graduate students are supposed to pick up while they wend their way through graduate school is exactly what it means to have a PhD. How…
” Authors need content, and content needs authors”
so ends Stephen Downes'(@005) paper Semantic networks and social networks http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=31624 which was a really helpful paper in allowing me to connect up the value of social connections within a sematic or content-related context. He also points out the separated…
Timing in take-up of new technologies
I was thinking about how I could better integrate weblogs effectively in future courses for graduate students. The trouble with introducing new technologies during a course is that the situation is somewhat artifical and the time is brief, neither of…
Using Weblogs and Discussions in Preservice Teaching
I thought I would summarize some points from a workshop on Weblogs and Discussion Forums–why would I use these in my teaching? that Wendy Freeman and I gave to the Elementary Coordinators on February 16, 2006. The powerpoint presentation from…