Archive for April, 2007



Time taken

Published on April 17, 2007

I’ve now worked out a method I’m happy with of archiving a FirstClass conference. It gives me access to the attachments and history of each posting, and provides for easy data sorting. Theoretically, I could archive a conference in a day, if I worked late. However, the limitations are: I get bored. It’s very, very […]


More data archiving

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I decided to put all the data into an Excel file, so that it would be easily sortable. Although FirstClass conferences can be copied and pasted, the contents pages cannot be, so I had to type in all these details. I have columns for:  post author  date of post  time of post  title of post  […]


Still archiving my data

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I make a number of false starts. I try picking up all the FirstClass postings and dragging them into a folder on my hard disk, but I only succeed in picking up aliases. I try cutting and pasting text consecutively into a Word document, but the header information won’t cut and paste. I try and […]


Archiving my data

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A how-I-did-it list to remind me of how I did it when I come to write my thesis. I’ve been archiving a FirstClass conference for the last two days. I’m drawing on my experience of the last two conferences I worked with – which were both archived by someone else. I had several problems with […]


Data! Real, proper data!

Published on April 5, 2007

Just got an email to say I have access to the four asynchronous conferences I intend to archive for my PhD. I’m dropping everything to archive them at once. 🙂  🙂  🙂  🙂  🙂  🙂  🙂  🙂  🙂  🙂  🙂  🙂  🙂


CAL Monday 2.30pm

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Content analysis of computer conferencing transcripts – which one should I use? Roisin Donnelly, B Holmes, J Gardner http://ltc.dit.ie/roisindonnelly.html to come!


CAL Monday 12.40pm

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Juxtaposing the personal and the institutional: how, where, when and why do undergraduate students communicate and collaborate online? Sue Timmis, S Barnes and James Gilligan, University of the West of England http://wun.ac.uk/view.php?id=220 (contact rather than web link) Sue and the others had used activity theory to look at how undergraduates communicate online. They found a […]


CAL Monday 12.20

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Emergence v design – a case study of an emergent community of practice in a blended learning community in postgraduate education Tim Savage, Trinity College, Dublin. https://www.cs.tcd.ie/Tim.Savage/scholar.htm Once again, very relevant to me. I’m particularly interested in the idea of a blended community which brings together the online and the F2F, strengthening both. Tim used […]


CAL Monday noon

Published on April 4, 2007

OK – biting the bullet. I CAN read through my conference notes. I DO want to blog about this – especially the first presentation, which was so relevant to my work.  Taking a stance: promoting deliberate action through online postgraduate professional development Peter Kelly, K Gale, S Wheeler and V Tucker, University of Plymouth See […]


Why is it so difficult to post?

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I can usually blog at the drop of a hat. It’s a great displacement activity, which I can just about claim is work. So why have I been sitting here all day, failing to blog about the sessions I went to at the CAL conference?