So I confess that I like to hang a big picture on the wall. There is just something about a picture that is bigger than me that is almost like being in the real setting the art is depicting. At my organization, the art department places some of our growing art collection around campus in different offices and hallways. A few of those pieces are huge. I like that. The thing is though, you have to have enough wall space to hang really big art. It is then, a matter of discernment about how much picture a wall can handle. I feel like this in my action research this year.
Over the course of the cycles of action, evaluation and reflection, I learned a lot and feel that the data response of my fellow participants were revelational with regard to the technology tools that we were test driving. We planned to take a course of action and step by step we uncovered some helpful and specific strategies for using mobile media technologies in academic settings. This view was like a number of nicely framed pictures that are placed on the wall in a nice pattern. I still have found myself drawn to the bigger picture aspects of this research. The transformational aspects of our use of mobile devices that my research data points to is the bigger picture that I keep trying to put up on the wall. Our daily use of mobile devices alters the way we understand the place we are grounded in when we communicate and gather information. That these devices are highly personal, enables the information we gather and the knowledge we build to be more personal and "owned" by us. We also have the ability to no longer just receive and consume information, but also become regular publishers of information and our point of view with these mobile media devices.
This big picture is very engaging and may just fit on my wall but … I find that I have learned to not give up my love for the big picture, but to also let the more specific, smaller pictures be the ones that explain the story. My biggest aha moments this year have been from the smaller picture items so … as I prepare to give the aural presentation of my work this year, I will definitely bring out the big picture because it is important to see that, but will show my readers and the listeners my group of very nice smaller pictures to weave the narrative that ends up supporting the big picture.
Over the course of the cycles of action, evaluation and reflection, I learned a lot and feel that the data response of my fellow participants were revelational with regard to the technology tools that we were test driving. We planned to take a course of action and step by step we uncovered some helpful and specific strategies for using mobile media technologies in academic settings. This view was like a number of nicely framed pictures that are placed on the wall in a nice pattern. I still have found myself drawn to the bigger picture aspects of this research. The transformational aspects of our use of mobile devices that my research data points to is the bigger picture that I keep trying to put up on the wall. Our daily use of mobile devices alters the way we understand the place we are grounded in when we communicate and gather information. That these devices are highly personal, enables the information we gather and the knowledge we build to be more personal and "owned" by us. We also have the ability to no longer just receive and consume information, but also become regular publishers of information and our point of view with these mobile media devices.
This big picture is very engaging and may just fit on my wall but … I find that I have learned to not give up my love for the big picture, but to also let the more specific, smaller pictures be the ones that explain the story. My biggest aha moments this year have been from the smaller picture items so … as I prepare to give the aural presentation of my work this year, I will definitely bring out the big picture because it is important to see that, but will show my readers and the listeners my group of very nice smaller pictures to weave the narrative that ends up supporting the big picture.