I’m changing my research questions again – this time more profoundly than usual. Which key skills do members of an online learning community use to support their learning and teaching? Which key resources do members of an online learning community use to support their learning and teaching? Resources identified by Neil Mercer in’Words and Minds’ […]
This is an extract from my supervision minutes from last December. It contains a lot of points which are important to the development of my research, so I’ve put it here to remind me of these. Examine the resources used by students – local resources and broader social resources – and at how they use […]
I’ve finally taken the plunge and got all my epistolary interviews with students and tutors underway. This was supposed to happen much earlier, but I got held up by the issue of which conferences could be archived which has really only just been sorted out. I didn’t want to end up interviewing a random selection […]
I was just sending the first part of my email interviews out to students, when I thought I should check the link to my web page. I’d forgotten that I’d tried out my Flickr badge there. It works very effectively but lots of my Flickr pix were taken at the Guinness factory when I went […]
Open the relevant FirstClass conference. Right-clicking on the column names in grey allows you to choose which columns will be displayed. Choose Attachments, Name, Last Modified, Kind, Subject. (Kind is just in there to aid the sorting process). Sort by Name by left-clicking on the grey Name column heading. Drag the columns into order. In […]
Gill has just pointed out to me a brilliant feature of Snag-It. It will pick up text which could not normally be cut and pasted. So the menus on a FirstClass conference, which appear as text, but which I was having to copy across manually, can be picked up in a text capture grab of […]