Week 8 follow up
It was an interesting week of blogging. I had several back and forth discussions
about data that was collected and how it could be displayed. I had the opportunity to share ideas on how
to create graphical representations of data and offered some suggestions on
organizing and displaying information from Excel. It will be interesting to see if my
suggestions show up in any of the final papers.
Two of us ran into similar issues trying to export spreadsheet results
to our blog sites. It appears we came up
with slight variations of the same solution.
I’m a little embarrassed to mention this but I actually succumbed to the
lure of Wordle this week. I have noticed
several examples while reviewing blog sites the past few weeks and decided I
should try them. The results were
interesting from an artistic standpoint but I still find them to be too and
chaotic and random for this project.
Although I will not be using them in my research, I thought about
incorporating them into my classroom when focusing on vocabulary. It could prove a useful tool for reviewing
vocabulary at the end of a chapter.
Adding vocab alongside synonyms and antonyms may prove to be an
effective (and enjoyable) way for my students to study. Two of my classes will be finishing a chapter
soon and I fully intend on introducing them to Wordle as part of our chapter
review.
I intend to spend more time writing during the upcoming week. Work meetings have been eating up a
significant amount of my time this semester.
Last week was particularly bad. I
finally had to tell people that I would not be available for a couple of weeks
so that I could focus more of my attention on writing. The twitter sessions have continually reminded
me to use triangulation to validate my research which is what I will focus on
as I combine all of my info into a final product . My
goal is to have a draft version ready to share by next weekend. It will be a busy week.
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