Musings on My Study

Methods and emerging practice

2007-08-08T17:41:00.001+08:00

I use this image to help me to understand how my methods in collecting data are actually helping me to document and describe the emerging practices of my collaboration with the academic staff.

Actions, Interactions and Practice

2007-08-07T20:58:00.000+08:00

I use this image to help me to understand that I often interpret and reflect over what has occurred during my interactions with the academic staff before deciding on an action which I would propose to the same staff. This action would then start an interaction between me and the academic staff where in the course of the interactions, we would both interpret the situation, try to understand each other, make sense of the discourse and reflect and draw on previous encounters and knowledge that we have learned as resources to make a mutual decision and perhaps set the next course of joint action. These joint decisions and actions would provide further resources for me to reflect on when I am no longer interacting with my collaborators. These interactions would also form the practice that we participate in and which we reify.

Emergence and Collaborations

2007-02-13T11:19:00.000+08:00

Could my research be heading towards the emergence and social network theory? I find myself asking the question, "How do collaborations start through the conversations and interactions of the participants e.g. learning technologist and academic staff?" Will this theory inform me because it is very interesting to ask about how our interactions and conversations (which I recorded or noted in my journals) evolve into emerging practices that last for a single semester if measured from the achievement of certain objectives. But with the theory, it could also account for the continuing process of interactions and discussions which may take a longer while to emerge as practices.