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Social Network Amaturist | PhD Candidate (TEL & E-Research) @ Lancaster. Looking at learning ecologies and the spaces and relationships inside those ecologies. Read more...

FB Testing

FB Testing…

Request for participants

So, I’ve done it…. I’ve issued my request for research participants in the form of a webpage. Sort of like ‘build it and (hope) they will come’.

If you are involved with intructional technology in any way and are interested in participating in a short interview (Skype or in person), please check out the [...]

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Ponderings on ecosystems, collaborations, the future and all the blank spaces in between

Ecology

Once again it has been a bit of time since I last posted. I’ve been focusing on work for the past month, but have continued to think about my thesis topic. It seems that my thesis topic has found it’s way into my everyday consciousness. I guess this is a good thing. I’ll [...]

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Transformational magazine reading…

Connecting to paradise

Connecting to paradise

So, here I am in the Canary Islands for some rest and relaxation. For several weeks prior to leaving on holidays, I stressed myself trying to put together things I would need for PhD work. I finally decided that I would bring my laptop (which houses 99% of my PhD [...]

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Progress report…

Lancaster Logo

Well, here I am writing for the first time in a very long time. It isn’t that I haven’t wanted to write, but quite the opposite. I have get quite a few ideas everyday about things that I would like to write about, but they start piling up and I don’t know where to [...]

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Worth it’s weight in gold…

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”

- Pablo Picasso

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Studious in Madrid

Studious in Madrid

Maintaining a blog with regular updates is difficult. Over the past few months I’ve been busy refining my PhD research proposal and plan. I’ve also been doing a fair amount of travelling (including the US, Singapore, Madrid, South Africa). A new set of posts will be coming from me shortly, [...]

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Social Media, Transparency and Learning

Transparency

"We" Vancouver, April 2010

Dalsgaard, C. & Paulsen, M. (2009) Transparency in cooperative online education. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 3 (10), 1-22.

A very good friend and fellow PhD colleague, Jane Davis recommended this article to me. The title did not initially make a connection for me as [...]

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Awareness, Social Presence and Connectedness

Connectedness

Part of the reason for starting a webpage and blog was to create an online social presence for myself. That being said, I had never fully researched what it was to have ‘social presence’. A quick search led me to a paper written by Ruth Rettie of Kingston University in the U.K. [...]

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The Paradox of Social Media and Higher Education Institutions

My presentation from our joint symposium at the Networked Learning Conference. Aalborg, Denmark 2010

The Paradox of Social Media and Higher Education Institutions

View more presentations from Justin Bonzo. Added June 3, 2010: Jo Freeman’s “THE TYRANNY of STRUCTURELESSNESS” seems to have some relevance here. During my presentation one or the audience members [...]

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