WEB 2.0 - The Machine is Us/ing Us

I think this is genius!

Read, read and read

Yesterday's meeting with my tutor-Niall, didn't go to plan. Why? Well, my list of things to do got longer and longer and the realisation of what needs to be done before I can decide on my research question hit me like a brick.
Despite this realisation, I am feeling more motivated and have a better idea of what to do now. Niall was very friendly and helpful. At the same time he set clear tasks with clear deadlines- read and write 6-8 pages of your Literature in 4 weeks time. (whilst working full-time and doing a module on Research which requires lots of work!) The thing is this is exactly what I needed- someone to tell me what to do by a certain time. This will make me work - I hope.

Friday thoughts...

After a very busy week at work teaching Swiss teachers, a lecture on Research (first week back at uni) and my first contact with my dissertation tutor, the pressure is on. After much pondering and sharing of ideas with my colleagues, I have come to the decision of focussing on blogs in my dissertation despite any doubts I have had until now. The fact that there has not been much research on blogs should make this research more challenging and exciting. So the plan is to meet my tutor on Monday and my new class who will be hopefully helping me out for this project. Firstly, will read about Anne-BarlettBragg's blogging process this weekend and aim to write up a page outlining my ideas for my tutor. Secondly, I need to think about how I will get students to set up their own blogs in their first week and develop a rough plan/guide of integrating it in to our lessons and setting students tasks for their own blogs. The aim is to encourage use and more use with clear learning outcomes that are obvious to both learners and educators. Hopefully, my next post will be less of stream of consciousness and will consist of more of sensible and organised ideas.