Editing interview transcripts for filler words is a real awakening of how often I say “like” unnecessarily 😂😅 #phdchat

An excellent thread to offer a better understanding of multimodal learning esp vs. the learning styles myths…

While reading about arts-based research and interpretive frameworks rn, I’m reminded of yesterday’s discussion about creative writing, Oppenheimer, audience interpretation, and how a grade 12 Writer’s Craft student suddenly said, “Wait isn’t this the death of an author theory?” 🤯🤯🤯🥲🥲😁

I made the switch from Mendeley to Zotero after (only) a year of using Mendeley… it was worth it. The web importer is fast, and can file the pdf into your existing folders. The search function (Ctrl/Cmd+F) works amongst all your pdfs, across folders. #phdchat

In an effort to share things that worked well, here’s something fun and quick. Punctuation is not exciting. So, while students walked in, I typed snippets of their loud, open conversations (nothing private), asking if I could use what they said for an example in class and only if they said yes 1/2

Just for today, I have all planning, marking, clubs/extracurricular work done, phd work started and excited for (love an arts-based research week), and got excited talking pedagogy with @jpedrech.bsky.social. Oh and I made a brownie cake! I don’t know what stars aligned on this Monday but 🎉🎉🎉

A beautiful, warm spring night for skiing at Boler Mountain. Dodging slush builds character 😂

You know what’s some fabulously beautiful and succinct writing that isn’t talked about enough? Fashion designers’ show notes for their collections. Full of historical, cultural, artistic, literary and personal references, so many of these odes are layered, rich texts to unpack.

Incase you forgot about this little guy, we used him as a creative writing prompt today. It randomly started as an example of “show don’t tell” and then turned into, “Why not make this a writing prompt option?”

@jpedrech.bsky.social check out this thread it’s so cool

The way analogies are used to structure frameworks and emerging theories in qualitative research could draw some interesting connections between literary critical thinking and traditionally “non-literary” subjects like STEM. Just another example of mutually beneficial subject crossovers.

Four classes into wheel throwing and I made a shallow bowl/plate thing. The funny little edge is defffintely intentional…. 😂😂

3 weeks in and burning out already. Reading words and no idea what’s going on. Term 2 is going great so far. My brain has left my head. Anyone who likes narr inquiry or other quali research methods plz send advice #phdyear1isfallingapart

How has it not occurred to me to include a “how to study” section on my exam reviews??? Yes, we go over it in class, but still… studying for art history can feel like a different type of studying than students usually encounter.

Starting the new year thinking about framing, reframing perspectives in research and how that changes our response to a situation, our approach to research, the questions we ask, etc. (Image from introduction of Creswell & Poth, 2018)