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Re: Digism's Doodles — #whyiteach

jennymackness — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 13:08:27 -0000

It's great to see this image. In a past life I was a science teacher and I always used this Edison quote to encourage the students to experiment and fail - although evidently there is some doubt about whether the quote is actually from Edison. It sounds good though doesn't it. it does the job :-)

Re: And I Walk Away, or How I Finally Decided to Quit Teaching

jennymackness — Sun, 08 Dec 2013 12:33:19 -0000

Not sure I can add much to what has already been said - but my immediate thought is that teaching takes many forms and doesn't only have to be in the context of your past experience. Once a teacher - always a teacher and your passion for teaching will emerge somewhere else, I'm sure. Good luck :-)

Re: Publishing,copyright, and pay walls...

jennymackness — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:54:38 -0000

I think it depends on what you are publishing for, i.e. the key reasons for publishing. If it is to meet your University's requirements to publish in high ranking journals, so that you can get tenure or whatever, then you might have to go for a closed, behind a pay wall type of journal.

I have only very limited publishing experience, but my first paper, written collaboratively with a colleague was published in a high ranking journal. However, whilst we get quite a lot of queries about that paper, it will only ever be accessed by people who have access to a University Library or who can afford to pay for it.

Since then, I have favoured publishing in open journals. Increasingly people will look for papers online - and increasingly - hopefully - people who are not associated with Universities and their libraries will be able to do research by accessing online journals. IRRODL has a list of open journals on their site - http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs and presumably there are other lists elsewhere.

And the ALT journal will be open access next year - http://www.alt.ac.uk/news/a...

Re: My Learning Style

jennymackness — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:10:27 -0000

Hi Mike - I see it's almost 2 weeks since you posted this - but I have been thinking about it ever since - in particular your question - when does a reference resource or artifact become a form of dialogue?

My answer would be the minute it is written - or more accurately the minute it is published. Just written might be dialogue with oneself - but published means that the author has an audience in mind.

Since you often do not respond then maybe it is simply an initiated dialogue as opposed to a sustained dialogue, or maybe there is a period of internal dialogue before moving to external dialogue.

So I would say that you are probably not as solitary a learner as you think.

Jenny