the dump

A place to keep track of info, links, and my thoughts on composition and rhetoric, teaching and learning, and life in general, while I work on my PhD at the University of South Florida.

NDLTD New Blog Site

Researchblogs.org

Writing an Electronic Thesis or Dissertation? Chairing or sitting on an ETD committee? Come; lend your voice to the growing community of scholars at http://researchblogs.org.

 

Blogging at researchblog.org helps you:

  - Develop the discipline of writing.

  - Network with other researchers and scholars internationally.

  - Maintain research links.

  - Develop resarch ideas.

  - Connect to other disciplines.

  - Receive responses to ideas and writings.

  - Create a dialog over texts.

 

Established for graduate students, committee members, and librarians involved in the electronic thesis or dissertation process, Researchblogs.org provides a free writing space for the development of ideas and research, linking all in an international dialogue.

 

Unlike other weblogs where individuals search the web for bloggers with similar interests, Researchblogs.org hopes to bring the community to the individual. On the homepage of Researchblogs.org the twenty most recent blog entries are posted allowing for the development of conversation between those with similar interests, but also allowing for communication across disciplines. Researchblogs.org also groups the twenty most recent blog entries in one research area, allowing for the growth of more in depth conversations within a single discipline.

 

What are Blogs?

 

Weblogs are frequently updated online spaces that publish posts in reverse chronological order. Often weblogs include links in the posts or, for frequently visited links, in the sidebar. Weblogs are becoming a common way for academics to develop their research ideas and interests as well as networking with other researchers that share their interests.

 

JOIN RESEARCHBLOGS.ORG TODAY!

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Red Elvises

Over the weekend I went in saw this crazy, but incredibly funny band called the Red Elvises.  They're playing in Clearwater on Friday and I'm definitely going again. 

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Panel Proposal

Things are going well with the 4 C's panel proposal.  Two other people besides Dennis and myself are interested in presenting, and we also are a  cross-institutional panel since Brad Bleck is at a 2 year institute, Dennis and  Derek Mueller are at private liberal arts colleges, and I'm here at USF.  I think we're definitely offering a different sort of panel. I've just got to get everyone remembering 500 words total for the proposal, well give or take 20 according to Theresa.

 

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Book Review

I just agreed to do a book review for Computers and Composition. I'm hoping I get to review the book on visual rhetoric in the classroom. That'd be cool to read. I also just bought a visual ethnography book. That should be an interesting read.

posted by: akjon78 at 23:18 | link | comments |

Survey

 

I've just created a little survey that I'd love anybody who blogged during their dissertation or thesis process to fill out. Survey Please help collect some data for the presentation at NDLTD on ETDs

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New Developments at Motime

So motime's had recent upgrades made to it, which is great.  I think they'll make some nice changes.  Now we're able to title our posts no problem and more is suppose to be on its way.

Right now I'm working with Dennis Jerz on proposing a panel for 4 C's that uses empirical research to examine blogging in the classroom.  I'm also trying to get stuff together for researchblogs.org presentation. I'm trying to work on some sort of video presentation and also some print based stuff.  I finally am feeling a little better about research and writing again.  I've had a pretty awful semester on it on the whole.  Not sure why except that I'm hard headed and hate feeling forced and I felt very forced this semester to write.  Light though is shining at the end of a pretty dark semester for me and I'll soon get a small break.  I'll be going home soon too, for my youngest brother's confirmation.  Since he attended everyone elses I certainly can't miss his. 

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Problems Online

This semester I've picked up so many bugs and crap that I can't stand being online for very long.  I've had to completely restore my hard drive twice.  It's driving me crazy.  And of course everytime I've restored my hard drive I've lost something.  So I'm going to try mozilla and only use IE for things that have to be done on IE.

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Ah Ha

Finally, managed to get my blog back to normal looking again.  It took me forever to figure out what was wrong in the code and then I realized that it was breaking between one post, which I had written in Netscape, because my Internet Explorer had a virus for about a week, but I'm back and running now.

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Ping Pong Matrix

I just found this link in Jill's blog and it's really pretty funny. It's some kind of pantomine of a ping pong match done Hong Kong Action style.

Research Blog Is Up!

Research Blog is up and running. Hopefully, we'll be able to get people interested in blogging while working on their etds or guiding an etd's development or maintaining etds. It will be interesting to watch this site develop from the ground up and I think my dissertation will probably come from observing and researching this site. Anyways, I'm trying to come up with a list of reasons to blog while working on a dissertation and I would love to get some feedback from people who blogged while working on either their thesis or dissertation. I'm working on a short survey that'll link here and then I'll start hunting people down to take it. I know that some of the reasons to blog while working on an etd would be:

1. Writing generates writing.
2. Blogging creates a place to keep track of links and ideas.
3. Able to reach out to larger community, which researchblogs.org will really help with.
   Other suggestions?

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ETD Article

I just found this article by Jude Edminster on Computers and Comp Online called Resistance to ETDs in Academe: Diffusion of Innovation.

I haven't had time to look at it, but I thought I'd share it and then abstract it tomorrow. Oh yeah interesting note Jude's a graduate from USF.

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Returning to an Old Article

I've decided that I really need to excise my fears and rework the article I'd once submitted to Rhetoric Review.  Although, I'm not as interested in the theory as I used to be, I'm reworking my article on the Cherokee Removal Letters and Dehumanizing Rhetoric and hoping to connect to the Patriot Act.  That's my tweaking the subject and applying it.

posted by: akjon78 at 01:29 | link | comments (1) |

Please Don't Ask

I've been playing a lot of intramural sports lately and right now we're in the middle of softball season. I've never played softball on a team, so last night a friend and me went out to the fields to practice. She was helping with my throwind and pitching skills, etc. Anyways, a girls team was set to play that night, but was short a player and asked us if we'd fill in and we said sure. So I played second base for the first time and the game begin by me getting nailed in the kidney because I missed the relay. That wasn't the best part though. Later in the evening the short stop, my friend, was throwing the ball at me and I thought I was going to catch it, but somehow I completely misjudged and got nailed right in the face. So now I'm sporting a very swollen black eye that I'm having a hard time seeing out of. But I kept playing till the end.  I just couldn't see very well. I'll trying and post a pic later.

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Adios Invisible Adjunct

I just read on Jerz's blog that the Invisble Adjunct is calling it quits. Shame. I also just read on Jill's blog about the problem with a person's children being electronically literate.

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Ideas for Research

I've been trying to think of potential research I'm interested in trying on blogging. Dennis Jerz and Daisy and I decided we were going to propose a panel next semester on empirical research and blogging. So anyways I think I'll probably survey, interview, and count which instructors here in 1st Year Comp are blogging, having their students blog, and what sorts of texts the two produce.

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