Posted by: Jeffrey Keefer in Twitter
In case you are planning to submit an abstract for the 6th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI2010), time is running out — you have until tomorrow, 12/1! The call for papers / posters / panels and submission guidelines is here, and the actual submissions area is here.
After attending the conference for the first time last year, I am really looking forward to attending the same again. Thus, will hope my 2 abstracts get accepted!
One of the things I so liked about this conference was the interdisciplinary nature of the participants–educational researchers, social scientists, communications theorists, sociologists, technology researchers, nursing researchers, and many others who engage in qualitative research. Looking forward to connecting with old friends and new colleagues alike.
Anybody else submitting and hoping to attend?
Tags: QI2010, qualitative research
Posted by: Jeffrey Keefer in Twitter
I just used Tweet Cloud to generate a cloud of the most frequently used words of mine over the past year, and think this is a nifty way of offering a (quantitative) visual snapshot of what I tend to talk about.
The words are, in order of most used, are:
- blog
- post
- research
- time
- office
- class
- thank
- project
- online
- finally
- morning
- tonight
- conference
- week
- getting
- paper
- people
- learning
- night
- home
- tomorrow
- evening
- love
- outside
- comment
- rain
- hope
- lunch
- comments
- autoethnography
- meeting
- email
- wonder
- wonderful
- late
- nice
- practice
- course
- dinner
- finished
- updates
- qualitative
- music
- feedback
- coffee
- enjoy
- wish
- sounds
- wine
- busy
- blackberry
- teaching
- waiting
- little
- jeffreys
- feel
- final
- read
- business
- manhattan
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Posted by: Jeffrey Keefer in Twitter
Posted by: Jeffrey Keefer in Twitter
Posted by: Jeffrey Keefer in Twitter
I have spent the past 2 hours catching up with colleagues and (perhaps) soon to be colleagues in the CP2 Community, where there have just been 2 Research and Dissertation Fests this week (one I could attend, and one I could not), as well as on Twitter.
Between reading and chatting on Twitter about Nancy White’s amazing recipe, seeing how other people I know were doing the same, discussing ways of using social media for community building (some direct Tweets I received and replied to about this topic), reading how Lilia Efimova had an idea and how she is considering blogging about this still unformed topic as she knows the benefits (and then she finally did blog about these thoughts), not to mention my chats with Jacquie McDonald, chatting about a research idea around Communities of Practice with Etienne Wenger (who did a discussion and co-facilitated the CP2 Foundations course I recently completed), and getting other ideas from colleagues via Direct Tweets, I realize I have a lot of interests and like reaching out to this distributed community.I also like their reaching out to me.
With all this, I wonder why I struggle with consciously enlarging my own community of practice. I tend, for example, not to look for people on Twitter and Facebook, but rather process all this if “friended” first. Perhaps I do not want to be pushy? rejected? or even seem needy? Ironic, as more and more of my work is in the area of communities of practice; perhaps more of my life should be there, too?
Tags: Community of Practice (CoP), cpsquare, Etienne Wenger, Jacquie McDonald, Lilia Efimova, Nancy White, social network
Posted by: Jeffrey Keefer in Twitter
Posted by: Jeffrey Keefer in Twitter
