February « 2009 « Silence and Voice

Educational Researcher / PhD Student (Lancaster University, UK) in E-Research and Technology Enhanced Learning / Adjunct Instructor (NYU & Pace U) / Project Manager (Clinical Education) in New York City.

Interests in educational research influenced by interdisciplinarity, focused on digital identity, doctorateness and the postgraduate experience, threshold concepts and transformative learning in higher education, Internet research, networked learning, technology enhanced learning, distance education, adult and organizational learning, narrative inquiry, and actor-network theory.

My professional work is at JeffreyKeefer.com

For all of you who don’t believe I do anything else besides work at a computer and send Tweets! http://t.co/wIkmnIpWut 1 hour ago
The walkway is being prepped now that all the bricks were removed. http://t.co/00l2ZIkEHg 2 hours ago
Why do you #adjunct? Select a topic for the next #AdjunctChat on Tues, May 28, 4:00 EDT. twtpoll.com/o13fr5 6 hours ago
Well, it is dark and overcast and misty outside, though I have to get going with this walkway. Will try until it rains. 7 hours ago
RT @mediendidaktik: Remember the date: 19th May is the last day to register as early-bird for the PLE Conference 2013: http://t.co/WkTOizw2… 16 hours ago
@raulpacheco eh voila, here it is! #PhDChat #ECRChat 16 hours ago
@raulpacheco Not sure I understand what you mean; suppose I will have to wait for the post itself? #PhDChat #ECRChat 16 hours ago
@DrSarahOlive I only wish I were closer!! 16 hours ago
@Billdncc Excellent! #phdchat 16 hours ago
RT @DrSarahOlive: Researcher in education with a PhD wanted for 'Connected Communities' project in Bristol #phdchat jobs.ac.uk/job/AGN981/con… 16 hours ago

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Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2009-02-28

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Wondering why I just saw a wooly bear caterpiller walking on the snow. An omen? # Warm and rainy tonight in Gotham. Lots of fun at the Tunnels. # At the post office. The guy in front of me is wearing flip flops; he can catch mice with those long talons of his. # [...]

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2009-02-27

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I like the term “trainwreck.” Quite clever. BTW, listening to Amy Winehouse. # Listening to tv in the background. “You are the harbinger of death, Kara Thrace. You will lead them all to their end.” # Working on a consulting project with a tight deadline. I hardly have time to Tweet. I really need [...]

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2009-02-26

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Adam Lambert on American Idol is amazingly good. Far above the others tonight. # The 5th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry #QI2009 just released the preliminary program http://tinyurl.com/adw9ry # I decided not to renew my #ASTD membership. Just do not find enough value for the cost. # Got my hair cut this evening. Much [...]

The Worth of Humanities in a Postmodern World

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I have been asked at times to explain my blog’s by-line:

Research and Practice in Postmodern Learning

and have found it as much as a challenge to do so as it is to define postmodernism itself (BTW, I do like Lyotard’s definition in The Postmodern Condition, “incredulity toward metanarratives”). I enjoy researching and living a [...]

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2009-02-25

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President Obama just said the US does not torture, and he is making that commitment tonight. Thank god some sense back in the White House. # I hope the President holds the banks accountable. After wasting the first huge amount of money on them, they still won’t give me a break. # Barack Obama [...]

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2009-02-24

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I have been thinking about time and age recently, and am looking for a set of petrified wood bookends. # Somebody is cutting his nails in the elevator. Just lovely. #

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Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2009-02-23

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Has been snowing all day. With near record snow fall in the Catskills, global warming is a hard sell for many here. #

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Tech Clean-Up Week, Here I Come!

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Post-Flu, I now face enough work to nearly make me unwell again! I am behind on email, blog posts, comments, responses, feedback, and rss feeds (again). So, time for another Clean-Up! This time, a bit more ambitious . . .

Here is my goal–by the end of this week (meaning by Friday at 5:00 pm!), [...]

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2009-02-22

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It is snowing so hard, it looks like a blizzard here in the Catskills. Nice to watch while sipping coffee after being sick for days. # Resting this evening with a book, Ken Follett’s World Without End. Starting to feel better. # I left work early yesterday; I was very sick. #

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Multitasking, Meet the Flu

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My multitasking met its match this week, when I finally left work a bit early on Friday with a case of the flu. I could not keep anything down, had a temperature of over 100, and with weakness so quick and intense that it took me nearly 20 minutes to struggle walking the 3 blocks [...]