Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2009-12-08

  • My #PPOCCID class and course just ended; wonderful learning experience. I hope my learners had a similar one! #
  • New comment on "Bitten off too much to chew" http://bt.io/BPEy #
  • Have a lot of Lancaster research design items to consider. #
  • My final PPOCCID class is tonight. Looking forward to final projects. #
  • I just learned I can copy and paste multiple formatted references in EndNote X3. Sweet. #

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Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2009-12-07

  • Is it just me, or is 9.50 too much for a small popcorn and soda at the movie theatre? #
  • Finally decided to see 2012 at a 5:10 show. About 6 of us in the theatre. #
  • Time for coffee and lunch. Feels like snow. #
  • Trying to narrow down my research design purpose for my current doctoral course, and can really use some feedback http://bit.ly/2d4Xqq. TY! #
  • 2 new comments on "Silence and Voice" and more http://bt.io/BNLp #

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Identity Development in Blogging — The Whys and Hows?

As I am starting to get personal, public, and formal academic feedback about my (working and developing) research design (both here on my blog, directly to me, and in my university’s Virtual Learning Environment), I am slowly narrowing it down.

I am thinking about how I work all various elements together (transformative learning, adult education, critical theory, teaching and learning, virtual identity, etc.), and it occurred to me that many of the people I speak with on Twitter and whose blogs I read are all sharing a similar experience to me — we are (or recently were) doctoral (or even graduate) students. I find myself interested in reading those blogs about people who chronicle their research interests, learning, struggles, and journies through graduate and doctoral work.

  • Why do this via a blog?
  • What is learned in the process?
  • How does it feel to be public with your thinking?
  • How do you learn about yourself?
  • Where does this fit with your identity development?
  • What troublesome knowledge do you learn along the way?

I wonder what it would be like to identify and interview some of these folks to inquire what they learned about themselves through blogging their educational experiences, why they did it, and how it influenced their research?

I wonder if there is a research problem and question in here?