April « 2011 « 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

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2011-04-30

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I had a long massage on Wed night and here I already have a huge knot in my back again. # Looks like they are building bike lanes down 7th Ave in #NYC Fantastic. # If only the Royal Wedding would be as fun as this version of what it could be http://bit.ly/jSBwoI # [...]

Research Time Planner (as GANTT)

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I am still developing the column headings for the planner that I presented yesterday, and while this is certainly beyond what The Clockwork Muse discusses, I think that having a project plan that includes all of the main elements that will take time in the doctoral thesis process (I am a project manager, after all), [...]

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2011-04-29

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Here I thought I was to catch up on email + dive into my research, and I realize my funk has been sociomusical disconnectedness #phdchat # "Can you hear me, major Tom?" Yes, Bowie still haunts us today. # Goodness, what is TweetDeck doing? Just discovered a number of Mentions I have not acknowledged. [...]

Research Time Commitment Planner

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Thinking a little more deeply about scheduling and managing time for writing my doctoral thesis, as a continuation of my post yesterday about The Clockwork Muse, I am wondering how to also build in the time for reading and doing the research / transcription itself. While there is a great amount of time that is [...]

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2011-04-28

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Am in our Queens office today facilitating focus groups. I love these, and find the results are very important for future project direction. #

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My Thesis Clockwork Muse

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Borrowing from the title of The Clockwork Muse, the excellent writing management guide by Eviatar Zerubavel about scheduling and managing the writing process for long documents such as a thesis, dissertation, or book, I am now creating a more-informed writing timetable for my doctoral thesis. I was not familiar with this book before Moira Peelo, [...]

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2011-04-26

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Just learned about this interesting new journal, the Journal of Organizational Ethnography http://bit.ly/ijmPc5 #phdchat # Farewell, GoDaddy. I will march with my credit card to another domain host. Wonder how I missed this story when it came out? # Time for me to switch domain hosts after the horrible image of the great white [...]

Provisional PhD Proposal Acceptance

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I am happy to share I received initial approval for my PhD proposal:

“Your confirmation has been approved subject to some minor amendments to your proposal. You should address these points and resubmit your document”

I am now working on 2 specific items, as per the Panel Chair’s summation of the panel’s feedback, and hope [...]

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2011-04-25

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I am exploring using the #Scrivener with #Papers2 #Papersapp Magic Manuscripts, and think this may be a wonderful combination. # Did I read that correctly . . . one cannot join BERA online, it has to be by post? #phdchat # I was fiddling with #Papers2 #Papersapp this morning while listening to my Early [...]

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2011-04-24

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Does anybody know the Twitter hash for BERA? Could it be #bera11 perhaps? #phdchat # OK, caught up with Tweets, so now think I will add wood to the fire and vacuum before I do a bit more doctoral proposal revision. # RT @bdieu @ffunch: Don't just take the Net and its existing protocols [...]