learning in progress ….

i've written a couple of slightly more formal things over the last couple of years - so i thought why not upload and link them all in a blog post.

1. here's an article i wrote that relates to a concept mapping software idea - a personal project thats been ticking away in the background for a few years - its a bit waffly but aiming at what i thought was the genre of their conference (and although it was accepted, i couldn't get there)

2. here's a review i wrote of an article relating to educational innovation - part of my masters studies, and relates to river city (the original article under review is here)

3. lastly, a research proposal. don't know what i think about this. its pretty heavy going - a week in writing, over the hols - and one of the lecturers - who marked it - thought it was full of throw away lines and no substance, while another in the same faculty:

"i haven't seen anything as analytical as this anywhere and it's an area that causes immense philosophical problems but no one I know of has properly analysed it so the discussion on it tends to be in absolutes"

i think its flawed in its balance - its more a background to a proposal - but i needed to get the ideas out of my system, i think

anyway thats part of why i upload them - the image of a solitary student doing all that work, only for it to be read by one overloaded lecturer seems as futile for adults as it is for school age learners

cheers