I’ve just completed 4 days worth of training on digital storytelling with a handful of colleagues that was run by Alex Henry of Curiosity Creative, formerly of Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums. This is just a brief report written immediately aft…
I’ve been reading up on different methodologies tonight and have been getting myself confused. As I said in the last post I’m placing this research firmly in the “subjectivist” camp. Tonight I’ve been looking at what Cohen and Mannion (2007) say a…
Some initial thoughts about my research standpoint, based on Burrell and Morgan’s scheme for analysing assumptions about the nature of social science (1979, cited in Cohen et al (2007, p9))… I don’t view the answers to my research questions exis…
This is a post from my other blog that I felt had a bit of a home here. I’ve been reading a lot about narrative for my dissertation recently and came across 2 examples this morning that illustrate some of the ideas I’ve come across. Oatmeal on Gam…
DS106 Week 1 (mp3) Trying to become more creative Setting the rules of engagement with DS106
Writing Hiatus (mp3) Why I haven’t blogged anything this week How I’m using my time Areas I’m exploring
Following on from my previous post that started to look at narrative as the search for meaning, I wanted to focus on one article about the motives behind constructing narrative and think how it might apply the idea of project teams telling stories…
Meeting with JISC Innovation (mp3) A new contact at JISC Different understandings of story
Part of this dissertation is to take a critical look at my role in the storytelling support process. Reflecting on my own role as a storyteller is central to that. I’m a storyteller because… … the dissertation is a form of narrative. This rese…
Voice and Longevity (mp3) Balancing informal nature of blogging with needs of an academic piece of work “Digital Decay” Is it important that the content of this work is available in perpetuity?