During the last week, I have been marking ‘podcasts’ produced by students as part of the assessment on a Level 5 (second year undergraduate) Research Methods module. I thought it might be interesting to share some thoughts on the module, the assignment and on the work produced by students.
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Ways to Use TiddlyWiki
Although I’m not currently using either site actively, I thought it might be interesting to share two separate ways in which I’ve used TiddlyWiki in research and writing.
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Starting to Write
In this post I talked about how I’d used a new method to successfully increase the speed at which I was able to cover literature for a new project that I’m working on. In this post, I wanted to outline how I’ve used WorkFlowy to start the process of ‘putting...
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Thoughts on Developing "Persuasion"
I’ve now run the 2 hour “Persuasion” session twice for sixth form students from two different schools. I’m pleased to say that the mechanics of the game appear to work really well and we’ve had some wonderfully productive discussions in both sessions. All this starts to beg the question ‘what...
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Rhetorical Precis
In my last post I talked about a really successful day in which I chose not to use the method of engaging with reading that has become my ‘go to’ - namely, the Rhetorical Precis.
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