Dianne.ALLEN's blog

As part of a response to a 'standard proforma' for presenting a research proposal at UoW, students are expected to identify 'limitations' to their research.   For students undertaking one-semester-length level studies, the focus on expressed limitations is usually on what I call the 'circumstantial'.   In one semester there is limited time, so the process of research can only operate within significantly circumscribed conditions.  The sample tapped for data tends to be small, the time for change to be observed for evaluation, in any action research cycle, is sho

On July 10, 2007, in the course of recording my thinking about the 'practicalities' of conducting cooperative/ collaborative research, I drafted the following notes that might represent my beginning understanding of what might be appropriate protocols for reporting about 'participants' in any such research report:

What protocols?

Back in March, in conversation with MargO and VickiV, about participatory action research, and about operating as a participant-observer, and about what might be involved in cooperative and/or collaborative research, or participatory action research, a number of issues were raised:

The practice I am currently engaging in is something akin to coaching, or mentoring, or trying to operate as a peer, with others currently engaged with activities similar to my recent activity: teaching, or learning, or teaching teachers, or undertaking thesis studies, or mentoring, or coaching, or perhaps peer supervision, or engaging in peer support with its co-construction of knowledge.   In undertaking that practice, I continue to draw on, and lean on, Jack Whitehead’s formulation of the practice related quest

I tend to find myself diffident about proposing what I am about to propose.   As shared with other participants here, I am no longer in the ‘commercial’ workforce.   Age, and other conditions, including not being able to crack a paid position, or to establish a consultancy with clientele, in roles which I judge would be using the capabilities I have been developing over the past ten years while engaged in postgraduate studies and thesis

Ross says I should be able to make this blog entry 'public'.

I am not so sure, so here's a go.

Problems ...

Not sure what is going on

I have become blase about inputing at this site!

Last week I was able to respond to Ross' query about rejigging the site without any trauma.

Just now I have tried to respond to Ed's item on Peer Review and have lost more than half an hour's work on reacting/responding to the proposal.

I had stopped copying my drafting before I preview/post!

As I am sooo new to blogging and RSS feeding etc, I am wondering:

when I am invited to post and the XML button is on offer, does that somehow register that post with the gremlins that generate the RSS feed (and do I really think I know what I am talking about, flinging these terms and acronyms around?!)

and does that then mean that the blog becomes 'public' - dare one say 'property'?

First there is 'post a new entry' - I guess that gets a separate heading in the blog record.

Then there is a 'reply' to a previous post. I have done one of those to my 'very first blog entry'.

Then there is an 'add comment' link. I'll try that one next and see what I learn!

But I still can't see how I make a comment to Margaret's blog, and commend her for her showing the way, and giving me something else to learn from and with!