Dec 132010
 
Home stretch

by  Nongbri Family Pix No, I’m not talking about doing yoga in my teeny tiny apartment, as was recently suggested when I mentioned this phrase (you know who you are). I’m talking about this final week I’m heading into right now, the last days of my life as an M.A. student. On Friday, I presented […]

 13 December, 2010  Posted by at 2:21 am Academia, On the Personal Side, ThesisLand Tagged with: , , ,  3 Responses »
Dec 062010
 
Wants vs. Fears: who will win?

I’m not sure why I’m writing this. Let me clarify. After my unintended hiatus, I kind of got into a routine of blogging every Sunday — similar, I discovered, to how Kim Cofino blogs regularly. And I was happy to be writing again. But now, here I am at 1:17am (okay, 2:30 after editing) and […]

 6 December, 2010  Posted by at 2:31 am Academia, On the Personal Side, ThesisLand Tagged with: , , , , , , , , , ,  4 Responses »
Nov 222010
 
Practice: your personal guru

“Practice is . . . a process by which we can experience the world and our engagement with it as meaningful.” -Wenger, 1998. For those who haven’t been following along, my thesis work has been looking at Communities of Practice theory and applying it to make design recommendations to an online professional development community for […]