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Friday, 2. August 2002
mccomas, August 2, 2002 at 4:06:11 PM CEST
References
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MRP Reflection
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About the Author: Karen McComas
Karen Honest, faithful, intense, and intelligent. Wife of my best friend. Lover of paper-skating pens; whistle-blowing words; and brain-stretching books. Who feels like holding hands at bedtime; pretending there's enough money to pay the bills and pay for a new roof; and living Lake Michigan summers. Who needs to inhale music; taste words; and hear angels dance. Who fears disobedient muscles; a vacant mind; and the parenthetical reference (widow). Who gives candlelit slumber parties; more help than people ask for; and priority to summertime naps. Who would like to see my son's college graduation; my daughter's first baby; and an Irish sunset. Resident of a body older than my soul. McComas mccomas, August 2, 2002 at 2:55:53 PM CEST
Acknowledgements
In this work I would like to acknowledge first my students who, in good nature and good faith, enter my experiments with enthusiasm and buoyant humor. A special thanks to the students enrolled in CD 315 in the summer of 2002 for their groundbreaking work with multigenre research projects. I would like to also acknowledge my mentors, Charles Lloyd, Dolores Johnson, and Amy McElroy, who have all been multigenre explorers and have paved the way for my journey. I would like to acknowledge my co-conspirators, Pat Delaney, Albert Delgado, and the other edubloggers listed in Will's right hand navigation bar, for their encouragement, support, insight, and tweaking. Lastly, I want to acknowledge my parents who raised me in an atmosphere where learning was as essential as breathing and questions were as valuable as gold. mccomas, August 2, 2002 at 2:53:09 PM CEST
Preface
This piece of work has been a long time in the making. It began way back in 1993 when I first learned how to MOO and how to manipulate the MOO and how to think out of the box with regard to teaching and learning. Over the years, I've turned that knowledge into hundreds of different forms and while I continue to be enamored with technology for technology's sake, I strive to focus my work with technology from a pedagogical stance. The particular twist this research has given me, that is a shift from focusing on the technology to focusing on the learning processes, characterizes my fluid development as a teacher and learner. I hunger to better understand how people learn and how context affects that learning process. I need to know this because I know that I can no longer be a transmitter of information. Using a social action perspective, I have to understand how people learn if I am to be a facilitator of learning, not a provider of knowledge. My intent for this piece is for a paper publication, eventually. This, then, dictates that my genre must be more mainstream and take on the characteristics, to some extent, of a traditional and linear piece of work. Still, I think the tone is more inviting and the content more captivating with the changes in genre, however subtle. This journey has been an exceptional one although it has had its share of bumps and bruises. This is somehow important and tells me something about learning. To hear what is being told to me is exactly why I am doing this project...I want to hear the story of how three people learned and what that was like for them. mccomas, August 2, 2002 at 2:44:32 PM CEST
Meta-Story
This will be the story of the three stories. Under construction, obviously. mccomas, August 2, 2002 at 2:42:58 PM CEST
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