Today I searched for some references from some other articles I read. I had to interlibrary loan about 10 more articles. As soon as I am done doing my full-time sub job for the rest of the year I will layout my skeleton draft of chapter 2.
Won't be able to work Wednesday or Thursday, as I will be prepping for a big interview at Independence.
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Monday, May 5, 2014
05/05 Comps Done, Let the work Begin
Did my comprehensive final exams for the program this past Thursday through Sunday, it was definitely an intense process and glad to be done. I am glad to have these behind me and now I can really focus in on my dissertation.
Today I put a bunch of the articles I already had into Endnote so that I can use cite why I write with word. I also requested some articles via inter-library loan and search education research complete using terms Twitter and Professional Development.
Tuesday: I am going to be searching for more articles and start outlining Chapter 2
Today I put a bunch of the articles I already had into Endnote so that I can use cite why I write with word. I also requested some articles via inter-library loan and search education research complete using terms Twitter and Professional Development.
Tuesday: I am going to be searching for more articles and start outlining Chapter 2
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
04/29/2014 Busy Day, Not Much Accomplished, But Did Something!!!!
I had a busy day today. I got called into sub at the last minute and was unable to work on what I planned to. I did read through all of the appendices of that dissertation I have been going over the past few days. Looked at the interview protocol and got some great ideas for possible questions to ask.
Plan for Wednesday: Sorting and locating articles from dissertation I read for use in my dissertation.
Plan for Wednesday: Sorting and locating articles from dissertation I read for use in my dissertation.
Monday, April 28, 2014
04/28/2014 Some great ideas for formulating more research questions.
I spent today reading Chapters 3,4, & 5 of a dissertation on communities of practice and social networking sites. I liked some of the questions and themes that I saw emerge in the data and plan to structure questions around some of those themes to see if that is true for school administrators like it is for teachers.
I would say formally and informally I have read 50 articles and three books with regards to Twitter. I have accumulated this many articles based on writing three different papers for doctoral classes on various uses of Twitter, and also have used in presentations that I have given at various conferences.
I now need to focus my attention on developing an outline and finding specific articles in the structure of my argument. I know I need to do further research on school administrators continual learning and professional development, specific learning theories with regards to communities of practice, and how social networking sites work.
Next steps: Find the selected articles from dissertation read in school journals and add to review of literature list.
I would say formally and informally I have read 50 articles and three books with regards to Twitter. I have accumulated this many articles based on writing three different papers for doctoral classes on various uses of Twitter, and also have used in presentations that I have given at various conferences.
I now need to focus my attention on developing an outline and finding specific articles in the structure of my argument. I know I need to do further research on school administrators continual learning and professional development, specific learning theories with regards to communities of practice, and how social networking sites work.
Next steps: Find the selected articles from dissertation read in school journals and add to review of literature list.
Sunday, April 27, 2014
4/27/2014 The Beginning of the End!
I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel, although it is very dim, it is definitely visible. As of Thurday, I finished up all of my coursework for the Spring Semester. I now have five days until I begin my programs comprehensive final exams, YIKES! Then it's one last online class, 180 internship hours, and a dissertation left in my pursuit of a doctoral degree. 229 days until graduation, if everything goes as planned. Typically ,whenever I have set a goal, I have achieved it and I don't plan on that changing with this goal either.
I took Friday off and enjoyed the day. Got a workout in, enjoyed FAC at Old Lumber Company, had a wonderful dinner at Red Steakhouse, and saw a great USD performance of Pippin.
I plan to start my daily formal dissertation process on Monday, May 5th, even though this has been a subject I have been researching and a passion of mine for over two years. Saturday, I decided I wasn't going to waste five days of quality daylight doing nothing further on my dissertation project until the comprehensive final exams. I spent 8 hours at Panera Bread in Sioux City reading the book Write Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day by Dr. Joan Bolker, and from her suggestions decided to build a digital dissertation organizer using Google productivity suite.
Today, I put the finishing touches on the site which includes a calendar, work log, and this personal research journal. I also read the first two chapters of a dissertation on communities of practice, that has some applicability to my subject. I also used it to re-acclimate to the dissertation writing process.
This semester, I had a great qualitative methods course that allowed me as a final project to compose a high quality methodology process for my study. I am excited about how that project will have the potential to evolve into most of my Chapter 3. For the next few day,s until my comprehensive exams I plan to start finding more articles and developing an outline for Chapters 1 and 2. Then, May 5th, it is full steam ahead and a devotion of at least 2 hours everyday until I graduate.
Plan for Monday: Finish reading dissertation on communities of practice and search for articles on principal professional development.
I took Friday off and enjoyed the day. Got a workout in, enjoyed FAC at Old Lumber Company, had a wonderful dinner at Red Steakhouse, and saw a great USD performance of Pippin.
I plan to start my daily formal dissertation process on Monday, May 5th, even though this has been a subject I have been researching and a passion of mine for over two years. Saturday, I decided I wasn't going to waste five days of quality daylight doing nothing further on my dissertation project until the comprehensive final exams. I spent 8 hours at Panera Bread in Sioux City reading the book Write Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day by Dr. Joan Bolker, and from her suggestions decided to build a digital dissertation organizer using Google productivity suite.
Today, I put the finishing touches on the site which includes a calendar, work log, and this personal research journal. I also read the first two chapters of a dissertation on communities of practice, that has some applicability to my subject. I also used it to re-acclimate to the dissertation writing process.
This semester, I had a great qualitative methods course that allowed me as a final project to compose a high quality methodology process for my study. I am excited about how that project will have the potential to evolve into most of my Chapter 3. For the next few day,s until my comprehensive exams I plan to start finding more articles and developing an outline for Chapters 1 and 2. Then, May 5th, it is full steam ahead and a devotion of at least 2 hours everyday until I graduate.
Plan for Monday: Finish reading dissertation on communities of practice and search for articles on principal professional development.
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