Practitioners versus Academics
Rosanna pointed to three blog posts which all relate to the applicability of action research to CoPs I’ve blogged about it from different perspectives:...
View ArticleWeb 2.0 and Communities of Practice conference
I’ve been invited into the CPsquare community to take part in this online mini-conference. It’s ostensibly about tools but quickly becomes more than that because everybody is interested in the...
View ArticleOther useful concepts to explore
More gems extracted from Rosanna’s feedback *other useful concepts to explore: 1. Communicating and learning styles 2. Linguistics of email 3. “media richness” and personality styles There are studies...
View ArticleDAR group at AREOL
From out of my Action Research ad hoc discussion at CPsquared’s Web2.0 workshop came strong recommendations for Bob Dick’s AREOL course. Areol, action research and evaluation on line, is a 14-week...
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London Wiki Wednesday
From John Barben’s blog I was notified of a date change and at short notice I’ve decided to go along to Wiki Wednesday in London on the 8th March where I’ll be briefly presenting some of my research,...
View ArticleWriting up
Just as I am in an intense period when I should be concentrating solely on writing up, lots of interesting discussions are breaking out with some ideas and stories which are new to me, involving...
View ArticleThesis on a wiki
The next module which I have to complete as part of a year long dissertation through research is called “Validation and Defense”. One of the conclusions stemming from the online exhibition, and taking...
View ArticleResearching the Classroom Displays Blog
Rather than just supply critical feedback to each other’s research, Linda Hartley suggested we might write each other’s conclusions, based on the idea that somebody other than the researcher closest to...
View ArticleResearch proposal
A discussion has ensued across three email lists following a question asked about Charters for Communities of Practice. It’s all mixed up really, with the thorny question of trying to agree what...
View ArticleEmergent coding analysis facilitated by mediawiki
Emerging structure from tags on the DAR wiki. I decided to spend a little time systematically tagging some more of the pages in the DAR wiki. The mediawiki software has a facility to extract a list of...
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Action Research to develop Wikiversity
My friend Gordon just alerted me to an Action Research project to develop Wikiversity, which is pretty exciting for me being so close to my own research interests on the application of action research...
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Hovercraft Ferry between Kirkcaldy and Portobello
Hovercraft at Portobello Originally uploaded by rongorongo An experiment took place in Scotland this year to test the waters for a proposed new transport route. In July a transport company conducted a...
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Google Analytics for Action Research
I’m using Google Analytics as a metric to provide quantitative data towards an Action Research cycle. Web Stats I get pretty good web logs and working awstats from my web hosting provider for...
View ArticleFirst Person Action Research
This is the first in a short series of blog posts about 1st person Action Research, theory and practice. What is First Person Action Research This is a type of Action Research or inquiry which is...
View ArticleKeeping an Action Log for 1st person research
Keeping an Action Log In my first post about First Person Action Research I mentioned the Action Log, and now I’m going to explain what I mean by that, and invite you to take the first action but...
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Action Log examples
This is the third in a series of articles exploring the Action Log concept for 1st person research. The first article began to explain the practice of first person action research, and the second...
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Reflection on keeping an Action Log for a month
This is the fourth post in a series of Action Research posts, following on from 1) 2008/04/27 First Person Action Research 2) 2008/04/29 Keeping an Action Log for 1st Person Research (also 11 comments...
View ArticleDARnet interview part two.
In part one of the DARnet interview, Cormac Lawler asked me, Andy Roberts, about distributed action research, cycles, groups and background. This second episode continues the interview, again with...
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Learning by Doing – interview part 5
Continuing the interview with Cormac Lawler, in which we begin to address the nature of “learning by doing” as it relates to distributed projects, and wiki in particular. Cormac Lawler: About changing...
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Action Research Cycles MediaWiki Template
We need to keep better tracking records for the various types of ongoing experiments that are constantly getting set up as part of daily online life. That’s a problem I’m trying to solve, and the aim...
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