Private Blog Research Articles

Digital Edible Literacies: Ephemeral and Highly Affective

AbstractDigital edible literacies (DEL) are a new media phenomenon that has recently surfaced in social media but has not been examined in scholarly literature before. I exemplify the entanglements of food, media, and children's stories in three DEL exemplars shared on a private blog, Instagram, and connected Meta channels. Drawing on a genre analysis, I position DEL within affective theories and connect them to the concept of ephemeral and material affect. I argue that the ephemeral materiality of DEL expands children's literacies with new temporal relationships that exemplify the sensory dimensions of affect in literacy. This theoretical expansion is important to facilitate understandings of the complex affective qualities of new literacy ecologies.

Towards a computerized Dictionary for Semantic convergence in children's stories in light of the Sketch Engine Blog

This research seeks to invest the gains of the linguistics of the computer blog in building a proposal for a computerized dictionary model for semantic convergence in the (Arab Child Blog) as a private blog that associates with the public blog (Sketch Engine) in order to support the Arab semantic web, and serve the authors of children's stories and the creators of lower-grade curricula , with a dictionary that simulates the language of an Arab child and what he actually uses of it, so as to contribute in creating an effective and successful language communication for him.

Private blog reflections connecting course content with field experiences: preservice teachers grapple with teacher identity

ABSTRACTA challenge experienced within teacher preparation programs is the ability to help preservice teachers connect educational theory with teaching practice. Guided by Dewey's phases of reflective thinking and Schön’s reflection on action as an ethic for inquiry, we embedded a systematic reflection of written responses, recorded in a private weblog over the course of a 15-week intermediate reading methods course. Inductive thematic analysis of responses revealed the following themes: visceral thought, vulnerability, interpretation of course content, and identity formation toward becoming a classroom teacher. Our findings exemplify how systematic reflection in a private digital space contributed to the development of preservice teachers’ professional identities.

Étreinte des fantômes de Véronique Taquin : Du rêve en réseau au roman-vidéo, un montage polybiographique

Lucques encounters Niels, his former lover who disappeared some fifteen years ago, “the phantom emerging from a dream outside of time” (Taquin, Étreinte; my translation). They meet at a hotel but cannot speak. To understand their past and their present desire, Lucques, a film editor and webmaster, invites the contributors of the private blog Odds to enlighten him, using text and video, about Niels’ personal story.Like an epistolary novel, Étreinte des fantômes is supposed to be written uniquely by the characters. They contribute using pseudonyms: Lucques, his psychoanalyst friend Ghostwriter, Nolan and Horatio, who seem well-acquainted with Niels, and five videographers… one of whom is Niels.This networked structure, combined with the power of dreams and images, illuminates both familial and political emotions. The meaning emerges from the prism of viewpoints and the interweaving of imaginations. The (auto)biography of the couple is a “polybiography.” Its tragedy is sublimated by a story that confronts the discontinuity of life through assemblage. The narrative voices speak through dreams and memories, texts, images, and sounds. The jump cuts call for interpretations. Caught up in the game, Ghostwriter herself reaches a deeper self-understanding, as all readers are invited to do by this text based on mise en abyme and self-reflection.

Transformative and troublesome: reflective blogging for professional learning about university teaching

ABSTRACTThe complexities of being an academic mean that there is often no time or space to reflect on teaching, and on academic life in general. In this study, four academics set up a private blog to share reflections on teaching. While initial commitment to the reflective blogging process was good, over time this declined. After 9 months of intermittent communication, we decided to wrap up the project and examine the experience. A qualitative analysis of the group’s reflective posts and related emails revealed themes related to emotions, space and time in academic experience. We discuss why the blog space did not work as anticipated, and how such ‘troublesome’ spaces may, paradoxically, be viewed as transformative.

Ranking versus reputation: perception and effects of search result credibility

ABSTRACTSearch engines play a key role for Internet users when searching for information. The vast majority of users are heavily influenced by the given ranking on the search engine results page (SERP). In this study, N = 222 university students were tasked to inform themselves about the working conditions in South Asia on the basis of given SERPs. Besides the ranking on the SERP, two credibility cues – the type of the website (news site, corporate website, research institute, and private blog) and the primary source of information mentioned in the search result (scientific study vs. corporate spokesperson) – were varied. Two research objectives were examined: the influence of the ranking and the credibility cues on the evaluation of search results; and the effect of both ranking and credibility cues on the selection. Credibility cues had a strong influence on the perception of the search results’ credibility. Students rated the credibility higher if search results linked to reputable websites or mentioned a neutral primary source of information. We also find an interaction effect between the type of website and the primary source of information. However, participants’ selection was mainly influenced by the ranking. Reasons for this discrepancy are discussed.

Blogging as an Innovative Method of Peer-to-Peer Educational Sharing.

Nurses in the cardiac intensive care unit often attend professional education opportunities. However, it is difficult to share this information among nursing staff. Varying schedules, different shifts, and patient acuity limit the amount of time available for peer-to-peer sharing of educational information. A review of the literature revealed scant research on blogging for peer-to-peer education in general and particularly in nursing. To explore nurses' perception of the effectiveness of using a blog as a forum to provide peer-to-peer sharing of relevant professional education. Using a simple, free blogging website, the unit's nursing practice council developed a private blog for educational information sharing among the nursing staff. An online survey was administered to the unit's staff 15 months after the blog was implemented. Most respondents indicated that they thought the blog is an effective way to share professional education (86%), keeps them abreast of evidence-based practice (81%), and has led to practice change (59%). Nearly 80% of respondents agreed that they are more likely to attend professional conferences, and 62% would consider contributing blog posts. The survey results suggest that blogging may be an effective method of peer-to-peer sharing of education, although more rigorous research is required in this area.

Internetowe portale parafialne. Próba analizy na przykładzie archidiecezji poznańskiej

Christ’s Great Commission: Go out to the whole world; proclaim the Good News to all creation (Mk 16,15) sets before the theologian the question about the place of proclaiming God’s Word and the forms of this proclamation. One of the major places of evangelization today is the virtual world. The aim of the article is an analysis of the content of Internet portals in the Poznan archdiocese. Research makes us realize that 25% of parishes still do not have their own portals. The author draws attention to the need to implement a thoroughly considered visual strategy of the parish, in which an essential role will be played by a presentation of the parish community during liturgy and evangelization activities. The article postulates a constructive communication based on building a message that would shape the conscience of the recipients, but also warns against fi lling the Internet with religious kitsch. The pastor should not treat the portal as a private blog of which he is the author but rather as a platform for pastoral suggestions that can be lived out by the faithful. The overriding goal is to enthuse the potential recipients while proclaiming the Good News to all creation.

Using private blog sites to collect interobserver agreement and treatment integrity data.

single subject research places an emphasis on extended data collection for interobserver agreement and treatment integrity; however, distributed research teams make this effort difficult. if researchers live too far apart, the opportunity to collectively take data on interobserver agreement and treatment integrity poses a challenge. in this study, private blog sites were utilized to minimize travel distance and distributed research team variables during data collection practices. the use of private blog sites as a technological modality allowed video to be feasibly reviewed throughout the study (i.e., researchers viewed a video from home as opposed to, driving lengthy distances) while offering a superior option in contrast to traditional in vivo practices.

Public and private blogging during placements: perspectives of occupational therapy students

Background: Occupational therapy students complete practice education placements as part of their degree programmes. Sufficient support during these placements is vital since the transition from the classroom to clinical practice can present many challenges. Ensuring support can be difficult, given that these placements occur across a wide geographical area. Blogs were identified as a possible innovative way of providing distance support and a study was undertaken to examine the usefulness of this tool in occupational therapy practice education. Methods: A descriptive investigation of a private blog at Trinity College, University of Dublin, and a public blog at the University of Limerick was conducted during one practice education placement. An online survey was used to capture quantitative and qualitative data on the students' experience of blogging during practice education. Findings: Blogging was not found to be a useful tool for developing reflection or clinical reasoning skills by this student sample, but was found to be beneficial for peer support and learning. Conclusions: The research indicates the potential of using blogging as a tool for peer support and learning. Further research on its application and the use of other social media in healthcare education is required.

Experiências com blog na pesquisa e na formação inicial de professoras de educação infantil

O artigo aborda o uso de novas tecnologias na pesquisa e na formação inicial de professoras de educação infantil no curso de pedagogia. Apresenta o percurso para a escolha e utilização do blog como instrumento de registro e documentação dos dados durante o período de estágio supervisionado na educação infantil. Seu objetivo é apresentar a análise de dados armazenados no blog, sobretudo os registros de três alunas que participaram do programa de residência pedagógica. A análise dos dados evidencia as principais categorias de interesse e preocupação das alunas durante o estágio supervisionado na creche: crianças, rotina, planejamento, espaço. O blog favoreceu a aprendizagem de aspectos essenciais da educação infantil e mostrou-se como ferramenta importante tanto para a formação inicial de professoras na educação infantil, quanto para a pesquisa.

A logical approach to supporting professional learning communities

Collaborative knowledge sharing requires that dialogues successfully cross organizational barriers and information silos. Successful communication in person or in a virtual community involves a willingness to share ideas and consider diverse viewpoints. This research examines a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) content management system called NASATalk, which offers public and private blog posts, file sharing, asynchronous discussion, and live chat services. The service is designed to provide a virtual environment where educators can share ideas, suggestions, successes, and innovations in STEM teaching and learning activities. This study features qualitative data from STEM education groups that helped extend the design of the NASATalk Web 2.0 collaborative tools and features. The analysis shows that the context, e-collaborative tools, integration strategies, and outcomes varied, but also contributed additional space, time, tools, integration strategies, and outcomes through the virtual collaborative learning environment. This study is designed to inform the STEM education community as well as those offering virtual community resources and tools of the added value of using virtual communities to help STEM educators work together in collaborative, virtual environments to discuss ways they can improve their instruction and student performance.

Contextual linking behavior of bloggers: leveraging text mining to enable topic-based analysis

The last decade has seen an explosion in blogging and the blogosphere is continuing to grow, having a large global reach and many vibrant communities. Researchers have been pouring over blog data with the goal of finding communities, tracking what people are saying, finding influencers, and using many social network analytic tools to analyze the underlying social networks embedded within the blogosphere. One of the key technical problems with analyzing large social networks such as those embedded in the blogosphere is that there are many links between individuals and we often do not know the context or meaning of those links. This is problematic because it makes it difficult if not impossible to tease out the true communities, their behavior, how information flows, and who the central players are (if any). This paper seeks to further our understanding of how to analyze large blog networks and what they can tell us. We analyze 1.13M blogs posted by 185K bloggers over a period of 3 weeks. These bloggers span private blog sites through large blog-sites such as LiveJournal and Blogger. We show that we can, in fact, tag links in meaningful ways by leveraging topic-detection over the blogs themselves. We use these topics to contextually tag links coming from a particular blog post. This enrichment enables us to create smaller topic-specific graphs which we can analyze in some depth. We show that these topic-specific graphs not only have a different topology from the general blog graph but also enable us to find central bloggers which were otherwise hard to find. We further show that a temporal analysis identifies behaviors in terms of how components form as well as how bloggers continue to link after components form. These behaviors come to light when doing an analysis on the topic-specific graphs but are hidden or not easily discernable when analyzing the general blog graph.