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PhD Blog (dot) Net. Posts Tagged ‘interdisciplinarity’. New researchers, interdisciplinarity and social media. Sunday, February 23rd, 2014. As a result of recent policies in UK doctoral education, an increasing number of PhD students are choosing interdisciplinary routes, and earlier this week, Sarah Byrne presented a much-needed focus. As I’ve suggested previously. Thinking about interdisciplinarity and compromise. Wednesday, July 10th, 2013. In a new article. Chronicle of Higher Education. We can see t...
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PhD Blog (dot) Net. Laquo; Developing Online Resources for Postgrads: The Internal-External Binary. What is it with the dark social? No more blurred conference slide photos. Here’s a thought. A conferencing web service, where slides of (pre-submitted) presentations from registered conferences are systematically coded. The codes are included in the corner of each slide for delegates to reference in a simple URL when tweeting during the presentation. Conference: X456, Presentation: B4, Slide: 3. Erik Duval...
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PhD Blog (dot) Net. Archive for the ‘Posts’ Category. Laquo; Older Entries. Marathons and Mayonnaise: Digitally Mediating Academic Lifestyles. Tuesday, August 26th, 2014. The way I see it, most forms of academic shared practice are not overtly prescriptive, dictatorial or self-promotional, but can be viewed as contributing to a wider communal resource from which others can make informed decisions about the usefulness and relevance of individual contributions. And whilst I’ve previously expressed conc...
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PhD Blog (dot) Net. Posts Tagged ‘academic practice’. Laquo; Older Entries. Marathons and Mayonnaise: Digitally Mediating Academic Lifestyles. Tuesday, August 26th, 2014. The way I see it, most forms of academic shared practice are not overtly prescriptive, dictatorial or self-promotional, but can be viewed as contributing to a wider communal resource from which others can make informed decisions about the usefulness and relevance of individual contributions. And whilst I’ve previously expressed conc...
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PhD Blog (dot) Net. Posts Tagged ‘ple’. Lori Emerson: An Interface Perspective. Wednesday, July 30th, 2014. In an interesting interview with Furtherfield. Lori Emerson summarises her new book. To explain how she is using the metaphor of the ‘interface’ to critique technological consumerism. Most interestingly, Emerson uses her Mcluhan-esque approach to technological mediation to discuss how we are increasingly ‘locked into’ using dominant social media brands. Perhaps some of the original notions of PLE l...
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PhD Blog (dot) Net. Posts Tagged ‘doctoral education’. New researchers, interdisciplinarity and social media. Sunday, February 23rd, 2014. As a result of recent policies in UK doctoral education, an increasing number of PhD students are choosing interdisciplinary routes, and earlier this week, Sarah Byrne presented a much-needed focus. As I’ve suggested previously. Developing Online Resources for Postgrads: The Internal-External Binary. Tuesday, September 24th, 2013. This is my third post exploring key b...
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PhD Blog (dot) Net. Posts Tagged ‘miscellaneous’. Tuesday, March 18th, 2014. Anthropomorphic photos of animals are prominent on blogs and tumblogs for obvious reasons. They are effective at graphically conveying human behavioural and emotional concepts… and are usually quite cute. The photographer denies any manipulation or cruelty, and despite the concerns raised in the Your Shot community, National Geographic have decided to keep this and similar photos by Palme on their site, indicating “we̵...
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PhD Blog (dot) Net. Posts Tagged ‘web 2.0’. Laquo; Older Entries. Thinking some more about curation…. Friday, December 20th, 2013. It seems to me that all forms of curation (including online. Are fundamentally defined by three characteristics:. What is included (and what is not). How the content is arranged or presented. How it is ordered or grouped – by taxonomy, chronology or other forms of narrative. Is some content emphasised over others? Basically, anything in addition to the original content. I exp...
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Good CoPs, Bad CoPs | PhD Blog (dot) Net
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PhD Blog (dot) Net. Laquo; Student Voice – The Movie. Growing up with J D Salinger. Good CoPs, Bad CoPs. On his excellent blog, Mohamed Amine Chatti asks ‘Are Communities of Practice Dead? I would suggest, to paraphrase Mark Twain, that death in this case may have been greatly exaggerated. Suggests a way forward in the network vs. community debate. Wenger has always asserted the concept of multi-membership – indeed in his latest book, Digital Habitats. My quest goes on. Mutch, A. (2003). Communit...Wenge...
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PhD Blog (dot) Net. Posts Tagged ‘education’. A literary education (of sorts). Sunday, May 25th, 2014. I hated English Literature at school, and duly responded by failing my O-level. From what I can remember, the syllabus consisted of an obligatory Shakespeare (in my case,. A Kestrel for a Knave. With its brilliant and iconic 70’s cover. The announcement of a shift towards a more Anglicised and pre-20th century. To Kill a Mockingbird. The Catcher in the Rye. 8220;In a time of drastic change”. 8220;In a t...
