Archive for the ‘Research Ideas’ Category

Flexible learning with wikis

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

I have to say, it seems we have some very keen students this semester.  We got their wiki logins set up by about 3:30, notified them by 3:45 and the first one had logged in by 3:55.  Nearly 10 % of them have already logged in and it's only 2 ...

Life as a blog

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

I've been thinking recently about the ideas behind blogging. From what I can gather, the original theory of blogs (if there ever was one) was to keep track of what you were finding. In fact, Tim Berners-Lee highlighted that exact problem in his proposal - how to keep ...

Researching groups

Monday, February 25th, 2008

I attended the departmental beginning of semester breakfast this morning and managed to catch up with Prof. M. (my PhD Supervisor). We're thinking of writing a paper about international students and group work. There's some fundamental assumptions about group work that really needs to be thought through. ...

Overcoming writer’s block

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

For your reviewing pleasure, I give you lolresearch! The wiki way: It's way Alisun and Luck Abstackt Wiki is way, thinking and problemz it's solushun for cats. If you haz problem u need collaborashun of peeps with wiki cause its way for makin peeps work in grops. You can haz max sharing and learns ...

Writer’s block

Friday, September 1st, 2006

I've decided that in order to get over my writer's block, I'm going to try to write a 1000 word short article on blogging for an elearning newsletter. I have to do something. If I don't get another article or two this year, I'll be working twice as ...