in which i discover my field AND its identity crisis all at once
First, the good news. Last week, I submitted my 42 page thesis proposal, take 2. Once I get the feedback from my committee incorporated and I scour the whole thing clean of APA atrocities, I’ll post it...
View Articlethe story of education: a Grimm fairy tale
The other morning I woke up to a flurry of Twitter conversation that had unfolded while I slept. A woman in Australia talking to a woman on the west coast of North America. Another person in Ireland...
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learning to unlearn: building networked identities in education
In a little less than two weeks time, I’m facilitating a week-long discussion/overview/ exploration on “Building a Networked Identity: Becoming a Connected Educator” as part of the #wweopen13 MOOC-ish...
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looking for a few good scholars. on Twitter.
The time has come, dear readers: I am ready to research. My thesis proposal has been accepted, my institution has granted my REB certificate…and so, here we are. This is it: the public call for...
View Articlein the wake of MOOC hype, what shall we talk about?
So, the Typhoid Mary of education disruption, Sebastian Thrun, has admitted that venture capital interests are not well-suited to the complex structural realities of public education, and moved on to...
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god bless us, every one
“I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt...
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epiphanies: massiveness + openness = new literacies of participation?
I’ve always loved the idea of Epiphany as a holiday. It’s partly the fact that it’s effectively a dead holiday, killed by its inconvenient placement after the commercial juggernaut that Christmas has...
View ArticleWe Don’t Need No Thought Control: the deep grammar of schooling
Late last month I went to London, not to look at The Queen but to lead three days of Media & Information Literacies workshops with Swedish teachers. It was a pleasure and a privilege and also just...
View Articledo you know networks? on leaving the Garden of Eden
Today, class, we’re going to talk about networks. And education. And power relations. Yes, again. I KNOW. You poor lambs. I fear becoming a proselytizer. The good people who show up at my door asking...
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Notes to Self: A Networked Ethnography of…Networks. Stage One.
This is the first post in a series outlining my ethnographic study of identity positions in online scholarly networked publics. It is a way of beginning to write out my research in a context with fewer...
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Notes to Self, Stage Two: Being & Becoming – Profiles as Identities
This is post #2 in a series outlining my ongoing dissertation research into how scholars using online networks build identity positions, reputations, and influence. The original call for participants...
View Articlewhat counts as academic influence online?
Sometimes things shift when you’re not looking. I woke up last Monday morning to discover that practically every Chronicle link on my Twitter feed related to my research area. Not in any...
View Articleacademic influence on Twitter: the findings
So. Since last November, I’ve been researching how networked scholars ‘read’ each others’ credibility and influence, when they encounter each other and each other’s work outside of the formal system of...
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something is rotten in the state of…Twitter
I read another article yesterday on The Death of Twitter: they’re multiplying, these narratives, just like the fruit flies in my kitchen. Like fruit flies, these lamentations for Twitter do not...
View ArticleNetworks of Care and Vulnerability
This Thursday – November 6th at 1:30pm – I’m a guest in George Veletsianos’ #scholar14 open course, talking about networks as places of care and vulnerability. It’s a Google hangout, so the talk will...
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Open to Influence: Academic Influence on Twitter, The Short Version
The Preamble: I am the sort of person who was born to be elderly and didactic. Deep in my nature lurks the spirit – if not the vocabulary – of a teeny, slightly melancholic sixth cousin of Marcel...
View Articlethe dissertation is done; long live the dissertation?
There is a little nook in the Dallas-Fort Worth airport with four black leather armchairs along the back wall of a 10×10 room. I finished my Ph.D in one of those chairs, last weekend. I mean finished...
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what’s next? care, vulnerability & disclosure – a research project
So. Flanked by my children, who have shared their childhoods with the gestation of my Ph.D – a rather demanding sibling – I trotted across the UPEI stage Saturday and had this fancy hat bestowed upon...
View Article#dLRN15 – Making Sense of Higher Education
I sat at a lunch table earlier this week with some friends and colleagues at my institution and accidentally started a rousing conversation…about conferences. I asked: What do conferences need to DO to...
View ArticleIn Abundance: Networked Participatory Practices as Scholarship
The second paper from my thesis came out last week, in IRRODL. I tip my hat to IRRODL…there is something truly lovely about publishing a paper on networked scholarship and being able to share it...
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