monika’s w e b l o g

5 things that have happened since my last blog post…

1 Presentation at the ICEL conference
Great experience, positive feedback, interested/-ing questions from the audience, feeling of doing something with at least a little bit of relevance in research, beautiful city.

2 Nomination of Paper for EJEL Publication
A great side effect of the conference. Some of the papers are going to be published in the Journal, among them also our (David Moore, Janet Finlay, Andrea Gorra, Reinhold Behringer, me) paper about Weblogs in Higher Education – Why Do Students (Not) Blog?

3 Writing up of Chapters
I had started to write up my research in 2008, but 2009 was the year where I seriously started to go through it chapter by chapter. I have collected experience in scientific writing, and in scientifically building up a chapter. Technically I am working with Open Office for text, Zotero for literature management, and (mostly) VUE for designing diagrams. I’ve written before about it.

4 Blogging Activity drastically reduced
A drawback. Through the writing of the chapters, all the “writing energy” is exhausted by that. All the time I have available, I want to put it into the chapters, because:

5 In 2010 I want to finish my dissertation.

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… everywhere, everything is re-structured everytime (all the time).
At the end of my PhD study nothing will be as it was in the beginning.

Alles bleibt anders.

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As I stumbled over this word twice today, I have to dedicate it a short note:
procrastination.

First, Rolf Schulmeister is talking about it in his essay “Gibt es eine Net Generation?” (via weiterbildungsblog.de). Second, an ENTIRE BLOG is called like this (via riesenmaschine.de).

The phenomenon of defering things has finally a name. For students, Academic procrastination seems to be a common phenomenon.

However. Being a part time student, rather than procrastination, the cronical lack of time for dedicating oneself to research seems to be the major issue.

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They say they are at a turning point in a project when they feel they want to live in that building.
When is that, transferred to a PhD-project? Knowledge of and free playing with the central parameters, balance between definition and fantasy, flow going beyond “the sum of the parts…”, enough immersion that the way towards finishing is brighter than all the tempting side roads?

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To suffer a setback = einen Rückschlag erleiden
I realise that in the timespan of a PhD, settings and circumstances are subject to constant change. Set up and adapt.

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There is a “knot” in my argumentation line which I need to solve. Here comes in what Prof. Götschl called the Methodology of Theory Evaluation.

02.07.

weblogs –> creative thinking&problem solving
weblogs –> informal learning
implies that
no weblog –> institutional learning –> no/less creative thinking
Hm 

weblogs – informal learning: What is really different from institutional learning?

informal learning –> motivation, self drivenness, interest, etc
implies that
institutional learning –> no/less motivation.
Ok could be

But that is not enough.

03.07.

weblogs –> informal learning –> certain qualities
no weblog –> inst. learning –> other qualities
Well- What an insight.

What are these “certain qualities”?
sharing, aggregating, remixing –> “social” creativity –> design thats differ from traditional products? More suited for 21st c.?
learning context                          –> competence          –> transfer, applying of the learned

Better.

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How to research on the innovation potential (Innovationspotential) of the own project?
In the learning sector: E-Learning-Readiness Studies, PISA-study

Appendix 1:
Not really measuring innovation potential, but giving an overview on the current state of e-Learning in 5 European countries (Germany, Spain, Finland, Slovakia, Great Britain) is this paper by the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training. Found on weiterbildungsblog.de.

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… hope it works.

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Still can not believe that this should have been so simple?
Hello bug, where are you?

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Just a trial to check if RSS feed works now on FeedReader?

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