Categories, TechnologiesMay 22, 2005 2:43 pm
Have spent quite a while today moving all the posts over from Blogtrax (one) to its new home here. Hopefully this will help Guy and I in the long run when we use it as a database to help us write.
The next big task, (and the whole thing will have been pointless without this next step) is to categorise all the posts.
This in itself is of course an analytical process.
I have done about half with twenty more to go. It is all rather a lot of work and quite scarey as Guy might choose different catgories to me.
Hmm. Anya, how did you stay sane doing this?
And today I notice, you have a wonderful post on wearable technology.
Thanks for your comment about my “Digital is the New Black” post *grin* I had fun hunting for it and am including a little in my book chapter about err… new literacies… (I fear some readers may think I am off track but hopefully they will see it as contextualised in the bigger picture of social and global practices…)
I have yet to do all of my transferring from e-selves to i-Anya and I am only going to trasnfer the hard core data and theorising over. But I know it will be worth it because then my book will write itself pretty much!! (Well, that’s my dream anyway!)
I have one problem with your new posts - and I am not sure why it is a problem, but it makes a difference to me - I can’t see which one of you wrote which post - can you sign off at the end of each? I feel more comfortable commenting on your thoughts because I know you better, so I am more likely to interact in a freer manner. It isn’t that I am necessarily shy, but I only feel half invited into this affinity space, so that affects what I will say to whom. I look forward to when Guy returns so that I can interact with his ideas a little at a time but until then… I need authorship identification! Oh Barthes, Foucault, where is your wisdom about the author now???
Comment by Anya — May 22, 2005 @ 4:19 pm
Well it is a funny thing … but I realised when I was transferring the stuff that I could not remmember who wrote what. Or at least in some cases.)
Guy will not be back for ages but maybe when he returns he will agree to putting names on .. In the meantime till at least July , it will just be me over here.
But I will soon be posting regularly on Dr Joolz again and that will be just me!!
I still get comments to moderate here from this blog; I can’t seem to get the thing to obey my instruction not to hold comments for moderation.
Sorry about that.
Comment by blogtrax — May 23, 2005 @ 7:38 pm
That might have been my fault because I was experimenting with adding links to my comments :>
Comment by Anya — May 24, 2005 @ 9:44 am
Ah right! Now I have enabled as many links as you like and the comment can still go on. (I think, fingers crossed!!)
Comment by DrJoolz — May 24, 2005 @ 9:51 am
ok this is a little test (feel free to delete)
From moi
Comment by Anya — May 24, 2005 @ 11:02 am
Yay!!!!!!
Comment by blogtrax — May 24, 2005 @ 12:24 pm
This looks great! I just came across you via a link on Joolz’ blog… need to take a read through the posts, but in a nutshell - are you researching blogging as part of doing research, blogging in personal life, blogging in general? (might be false boundaries though my feeling is that many bloggers, myself included, tend to put up boundaries around the content of their blogs - either work/research related, or personal, but rarely both) Do you have something as formal as a research question at this point? Are you eventually thinking in terms of implications for education? Sorry for the 20 questions
- my obsession lately has been with the (almost) utter and complete lack of empirical research on blogging in education, and I’m psyched to see that you’re working on it! I’ve got a presentation proposal in to NRC for next year on tracing undergraduate students’ blogging practices in and out of the classroom… hoping it gets accepted and looking forward to doing the research. Cheers!
Comment by Sarah — May 26, 2005 @ 12:53 am
Hi Sarah
lovely to hear from you and really pleased you like the blog! Thanks so much for mentioning us on Day in the Life.
Yes lots of your guesses are right and in fact Guy and I have also put a proposal into NRC so hope to be successful and meet you there.
This is an autoethnography and as such we have been thinking about the effect of blogging on ourselves as academics but as you will have spotted I have also been thinking about communities and learming. Early posts have focused on the effect on writing, the changing nature of writing and the affordances of all that.
We are both involved with school education as well as teacher education so hopefully we will be drawing on this in our practices there too - and amsure we will learn from youin that regard!!!
Fingers crosed re nrc.
Comment by blogtrax — May 26, 2005 @ 9:45 am