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09 Jun 2010
Obligatory iPad update
Yes, I was one of those lining up to have a pay with the iPad when it got released here in Australia. I was a bit so-so about it all, but had to see for myself what all the fuss was (is) about. What I discovered was that its not so much about seeing for [...]
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07 Jun 2010
Wikipedia as style guide?
Ive blogged previously (and here privately) about the trouble Ive been having with citing sources in online writing in terms of style: Whether to use print conventions or hypertext conventions. The benefit of using print conventions, i.e. APA style, is that there is a style guide, and a strict one at that, standard in the [...]
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Wordle for June
Oh my goodness. I cant believe its June Im still getting used to writing 2010 instead of 2009! Below is a Wordle (http://www.wordle.net) generated from the beginning section of my Methodology/Methods chapter. As Ive blogged before, Wordle works by generating a word cloud based on the frequency of words in a given text [...]
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04 Jun 2010
The Penelope Syndrome
I was recently reading Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day by Joan Bolker, rather than actually write my dissertation, and her discussion of the Penelope syndrome made me lol: I have named a more extreme version of this problem [inefficient writing] the Penelope Syndrome. Penelope, you probably remember, spent the days of Odysseuss absence [...]
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17 May 2010
My PLN and those "Aha!" moments
Mid-2008, I submitted my research proposal for review and gave a panel presentation about it (nerve-wracking stuff!). In my proposal, I outlined the literature and rationale behind the study, the proposed methodology and methods, ethical considerations, research instruments, intended analysis (and analytical framework), and so on everything youd expect to see in a qualitative [...]
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21 Apr 2010
Hypertext style conventions
Im facing the decision of whether to hyperlink to the original source or to my end-text referencing in my online writing. Becky pointed out that hyperlinking to the end text reference means that Id be following print-text conventions whereas hyperlinking to the original source means following hypertext conventions (although these dont seem to be written [...]
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16 Apr 2010
Exploring Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Download a print friendly(er) version of this essay here An Introduction When I first pitched the idea to develop my doctoral dissertation as a hypertext in website form, I had no idea that this request would be considered unusual. I also had no idea that it had not been done before at my institution (that we know [...]
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08 Apr 2010
These are a few of my favourite things
I’ve been running (facilitating) a course for Languages teachers based on the 23 Things programme here at Murdoch University (which was in turn adapted from the http://macetg.wordpress.com/about-learning-20-mac/ project at McMaster University Library) for a year and a half now. In it we explore 23 ICT Things that are useful for learning/teaching Languages both in terms [...]
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07 Apr 2010
Big work, and lots of it
I had this conversation with students from Yarridale Senior High School during a focus group interview and it has really stayed with me: Penny: So when you think of “ICTs”, what do you think of? What comes to mind? Christy: Computers. Penny: Computers? What else? Alistair: A lot of big work. Penny: Big work? What do you mean? Alistair: A lot, like piles on ya? Like you [...]
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20 Mar 2010
Good Looking with Technology
There must be something more interesting for social scientists to do with their computers than coding data. Mason & Dicks, 2001, p. 441. And I certainly agree! I gave a “Friday Morning Seminar” presentation to the faculty of Education a couple of weeks ago in which I described how I am using technologies to research technologies. Good Looking [...]
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Penelope Coutas

I'm an EdD Candidate at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia currently researching the use of ICTs for learning and teaching foreign languag...
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