I attended a Graduate School workshop the other day on the PhD Examination process… really valuable session for those of us approaching the final stretch of the thesis journey.. In another session, I was invited to talk to new PhD & EdD students about some of the key issues in the doctoral process. Someone asked…
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DocWorks in elgg Spaces
The world has changed (in case it hasn’t been brought to your attention lately!)!!At UTS, in the Faculty of Education, all new Doctoral students will be using elgg Spaces as a Research Journal!! This is huge – when only 3 – or was it 4 years ago? – my work with weblogs in education was..…
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Doctoral Programme 2006Oxford (UK) – 15-29 Julyooh – now this looks like something my PhD could benefit from…. "…the Programme will bring together students from around the world to study with leading academics in the field of Internet Studies and to share and discuss their research. The Programme is designed both to stretch the thinking…
Read MoreThe Doctoral Assessment Process
About half way through your PhD candidature at UTS, you are required to have your progress assessed….. "This is to ensure that candidates are equipped with the knowledge and research skills to carry out their proposed research program, and have made sufficient progress to make it likely that they will finish in the prescribed time."…
Read MoreTheory versus Practice
I discovered this excerpt from Sir Athur Conan Doyle’s "The Yellow Face" the other day: Holmes: What do you think of my theory? Watson: It’s all surmise. Holmes: But at least it covers all the facts. When new facts come to our knowledge which cannot be covered by it, it will be time enough to…
Read MoreTime to resuscitate this weblog!
Digital Dialogues, my PhD weblog, has been badly neglected over the last few months (or slightly longer)…excuses?? Plenty….too much work, not enough time, running the Learning Technologies weblog for LTUG, distracted by the BlogTalk Downunder conference…well, that should do as far as excuses are concerned…there are more….but…time to move on! It’s time to re-invigorate, resuscitate,…
Read MoreTeaching vs Learning
As I’m starting to prepare my teaching strategies for next semester (only 2 weeks away now…) I’ve been considering many of the issues that my research into blogging and learning journals have raised for me. Wandering along Chiswick Common I noticed a plaque on one of the terraces – E.M.Forster had lived there for some…
Read MoreDown the line…
So – if blogging is a dymanic communication tool, why do I have so much trouble actually getting around to capturing my thoughts on this page? At the moment, the blogosphere is about being online – if you’re not online, you can’t blog! Well, I guess you can revert to Word documents and then cut…
Read MoreBack on the air
Finally arrived back in London after a few delays out of Vienna. Thought: Even a 2 hour flight can take nearly a day! 1 day to gather my thoughts and then head down to Somerset in England for the EB2 International management conference – not as a presenter or participant – simply a signifcant partner!…
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After day 1 of BlogTalk 2.0 I’m finding more questions are I need to investigate: The dialogue vs monologue is still a primary question – what are my students doing with their blogs – I still think they are starting as monolgues but progress to dialogue…Torill Mortensen discussed the difference and confusion of modalities that…
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