Research Essentials

I’ve recently been creating new blogs on Blogger. I use both wordpress and blogger, swapping from one to the other depending on my mood at the time. Recently, Blogger has been my preferred choice. I just created a new blog in Blogger: The Connected Peasant. In doing so, I realised I had quite a few [...]

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Just finished my initial online conference chat with Christine from Salford. She saw our presentation at ALT-C in Nottingham and asked us to chat to some post-graduate students about our experiences. Rebecca and I are going to talk with them via their interwise online conferencing tool, about our experiences of blogging as a research tool.  Specifically [...]

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Liveblogged Marion now has the daunting task of drawing together the many diverse presentations from this strand of the conference. I’ve attended a number of these presentations and enjoyed them enormously, particularly the three this morning which I will blog about later. The audience is quite large – fortunately the auditorium is big, and she [...]

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Our blogging presentation seemed to go well. We got lots of questions afterwards and several delegates enjoyed our collaborative style of joint presentation. Several people came up to chat afterwards and two said they’d been live blogging us so must checkout what they said.  One lady expressed considerable concerns about security – about prospective employers finding [...]

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The Conference Proceedings for ALT-C 2007 are available, and included with them is our joint paper (authors Rebecca Ferguson, Gill Clough and Anesa Hosein) http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2007/altc2007_documents/altc2007_research_proceedings.pdf The Conference is next week and is looking really interesting. We’ve added this blog to the ALT-C blog feed so we’ll feel honour bound to blog our impressions as we [...]

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Link to our blogging paper http://kn.open.ac.uk/document.cfm?docid=9992

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