1. Online space or a place to hang out?
(Blog/Designing for Learning)

... the previous activities, practices, tools, discourse and conversations missing from CoP off the shelf, but so are the identities, communities and sense of belonging that people have which are spread out ...

2. From report writing to social reporting
(Blog/Social Media)

... I know the discourse of Web2.0, the Lisbon agenda, innovation … hasn’t got much further than meetings and formal events with the right titles and speakers. And a report. However, with many ...

3. Stress - a discursive problem?
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... small and underfunded. This picture of slowness, struggles, and the-time-it-takes is at odds with discourse of innovation and efficiency, high performance, capturing insights, getting things done. It certainly ...

4. Genre and Discourse Analysis (2004)
(Blog/Essays)

Genre, discourse, discursive practices .... they are the glue that ties everything together for me! I wrote on my website back in 2004 this as I thought I was getting close to finishing my doctorate! ...

5. Weaving together Online and Face-to-Face (2006)
(Blog/Essays)

... of knowledge in which participants share an interest (domain) and development of practices that support further learning (practice). Taking a communities of practice perspective is also to use a discourse ...

6. Policy-making as design (2005)
(Blog/Essays)

... beyond traditional geographical boundaries and challenging the traditional student/teacher encounters, relationships and forms of discourse. Changing approaches to learning and knowledge.  Among ...

7. Inclusion/Exclusion or 'Clusion (2005)
(Blog/Essays)

... post-modern discourse of local identities and contexts in ongoing construction. I find myself getting fuzzy when I focus on one at the expense of the other and have not yet managed to locate the words ...

8. Intercultural Communication: some viewing lenses (2004)
(Blog/Essays)

... It reflects my own journey through some of the different discourses of culture and inter-cultural communication. It didn't start out as a literature review but has almost turned out to be one. I work ...

9. Multiliteracies: a theoretical overview (2004)
(Blog/Essays)

... background to literacies and multiliteracies, which is not usually reflected in popular discourse about "e-literacies". In my mind I'm writing this both for interested participants of the ...

10. Meta Thoughts
(Category)

Thinking about things like thinking, discourse, epistemology, power and ethics. It's where I can indulge myself in talking aloud about books I've read, narrative inquiry, discursive practices and ...