http://www.pontydysgu.org/2009/02/research-in-practice/ Pontydysgu - Educational Research Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:43:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.pontydysgu.org/2009/02/research-in-practice/comment-page-1/#comment-15036 Cristina Costa Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:30:02 +0000 http://www.pontydysgu.org/?p=1224#comment-15036 I have another take what you are saying there... and it might be this is not the right interpretation, but I think these are great tools to help one in his/her research, without them ( the social software tools) being necessarily the focus of the research. We have come a long way when it comes to use social software, and researching about it, but we still haven't been able to innovate in the ways we carry out that research and especially how we present it. We still go back to the old technology: printed press. And now I will be focusing more on my reality as a PhD student. I am thinking it would be cool to be able to present my dissertation in a different way rather than the usual 'stack of paper' we need to present the jury with. Why can't I make a movie instead? Why can't the researchers' field notes be a blog, and such evidence be presented as such, instead of having to transcribe it then later to a word document? Why can't a doctoral research also be an interdisciplinary, collaborative project where people from different disciplines could look at the same phenomenon through the lens of the area they belong to? ... I have another take what you are saying there… and it might be this is not the right interpretation, but I think these are great tools to help one in his/her research, without them ( the social software tools) being necessarily the focus of the research.
We have come a long way when it comes to use social software, and researching about it, but we still haven’t been able to innovate in the ways we carry out that research and especially how we present it. We still go back to the old technology: printed press.
And now I will be focusing more on my reality as a PhD student.
I am thinking it would be cool to be able to present my dissertation in a different way rather than the usual ‘stack of paper’ we need to present the jury with. Why can’t I make a movie instead? Why can’t the researchers’ field notes be a blog, and such evidence be presented as such, instead of having to transcribe it then later to a word document? Why can’t a doctoral research also be an interdisciplinary, collaborative project where people from different disciplines could look at the same phenomenon through the lens of the area they belong to?
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]]> http://www.pontydysgu.org/2009/02/research-in-practice/comment-page-1/#comment-15026 Frances Bell Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:20:21 +0000 http://www.pontydysgu.org/?p=1224#comment-15026 Graham, There may be an explanation for this. Many people I know use Skype, etc. as everyday desktop tools. 5 or 10 years ago, a video-conferencing system would have merited attention in a project proposal/ report on account of the resource needed to fund it. Now that need does not arise as the tools are 'free'. Some projects will mention tools that still need funding e.g. JISc Emerge and Elluminate. Graham,
There may be an explanation for this. Many people I know use Skype, etc. as everyday desktop tools. 5 or 10 years ago, a video-conferencing system would have merited attention in a project proposal/ report on account of the resource needed to fund it. Now that need does not arise as the tools are ‘free’. Some projects will mention tools that still need funding e.g. JISc Emerge and Elluminate.

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