Friday, March 24, 2006
Disappearing days ...
Spring Break was last week and I read and took notes from Berger and Luckmann (1966), The Social Construction of Reality. This book presents the foundation of social constructionism. K. J. Gergen has expanded this theoretical perspective through out many of his publications, some of which include: The Saturated Self: Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Live (1991), Toward Transformation in Social Knowledge (1994), An Invitation to Social Construction (1999, reprinted 2003), and the article by Gergen & Gergen, Qualitative Inquiry: Trends and transformations (2000, published in the Handbook of Qualitative Research). With this I think I have the tools to improve a section of Chapter 3.
The SITE Conference has been taking place during this week in Orlando, FL. Being there, meeting people you have met online, and sharing with the ILET scholars was great, almost like getting to meet family members. As Susan says in her blog, being “part of the community of technology educators” is very important, the support structure that develops from it allows you to have a wider view of your field and the opportunity to collaborate with others.
I want to thank Kenneth (ILET-UVA) and Jing (UGA) for sharing ideas and pointing me to new resources related to my research. Later, during the poster session, I talked to Hamide (UTEP) who presented a poster titled Socialization in Online Mathematics Learning Environments. Our work has some interesting similarities that I will need to explore more.
And so, two more weeks have gone by. They have been very productive, but at the same time I have not done everything I wanted to. I think that I always want to do so much, more than what I can humanly do. Still, I feel I moved one tinny step further, getting a tinny bit closer to my goal. And I also had a wonderful time at home!
The SITE Conference has been taking place during this week in Orlando, FL. Being there, meeting people you have met online, and sharing with the ILET scholars was great, almost like getting to meet family members. As Susan says in her blog, being “part of the community of technology educators” is very important, the support structure that develops from it allows you to have a wider view of your field and the opportunity to collaborate with others.
I want to thank Kenneth (ILET-UVA) and Jing (UGA) for sharing ideas and pointing me to new resources related to my research. Later, during the poster session, I talked to Hamide (UTEP) who presented a poster titled Socialization in Online Mathematics Learning Environments. Our work has some interesting similarities that I will need to explore more.
And so, two more weeks have gone by. They have been very productive, but at the same time I have not done everything I wanted to. I think that I always want to do so much, more than what I can humanly do. Still, I feel I moved one tinny step further, getting a tinny bit closer to my goal. And I also had a wonderful time at home!
