{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"64956236","dateCreated":"1384501103","smartDate":"Nov 14, 2013","userCreated":{"username":"mriel","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/mriel","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1202793136\/mriel-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/ccar.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/64956236"},"dateDigested":1531982596,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Your Ideas for Doing Action Research","description":"Share your initial ideas for doing action research. In the next tutorial we will help you develop these ideas.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"67376800","body":"I have several ideas for my action research. I look for a place to do my action research. One idea is to start a parent-teacher discussion forum. Currently, parents and teachers communicate each other by email at my school. Several issues are still on the shelves. A discussion forum could start dialogues between parents and teachers. It creates an online environment where parents and teachers share their ideas and reflect their thoughts.","dateCreated":"1384567483","smartDate":"Nov 15, 2013","userCreated":{"username":"mbuskir","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/mbuskir","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1426982592\/mbuskir-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"72634318","body":"A shift from email to a discussion forum is a great idea. There are number of options for this but one you might explore is glassboard. They have a nice interface and allow for private messages and they are free.","dateCreated":"1400817565","smartDate":"May 22, 2014","userCreated":{"username":"mriel","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/mriel","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1202793136\/mriel-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"73642612","body":" I\u00b4d like to research the development of intercultural communicative competence (Byram) of deaf students part of an English as a Foreign Language class. They are high school seniors that learn written English as a mandatory subject in a public school. The school offers inclusive education (as it is obliged by law) and students are taught in an exclusive classroom (deaf only), assisted by an English teacher and a Sign Language interpreter.
\n I understand it is necessary that students receive exclusive attention but I also see there is a need find ways to integrate them to the school community as a whole.","dateCreated":"1402918029","smartDate":"Jun 16, 2014","userCreated":{"username":"Claudia_Batista","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Claudia_Batista","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1402918760\/Claudia_Batista-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"73803622","body":"So I would as you to think about the response to the prompt ... How can I improve the way I.... because action research has agency. What is the focus of your inquiry into your practice?","dateCreated":"1403647086","smartDate":"Jun 24, 2014","userCreated":{"username":"mriel","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/mriel","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1202793136\/mriel-lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"64956224","dateCreated":"1384501006","smartDate":"Nov 14, 2013","userCreated":{"username":"mriel","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/mriel","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1202793136\/mriel-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/ccar.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/64956224"},"dateDigested":1531982596,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Your Personal Experiences with Action Research","description":"Please share experiences that you have had that you think was, or was close to, action research.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"67376792","body":"I have a small morning session at school where I teach. I present a situation (mostly social problems - bullying, friendship, responsibilities, etc.) and raise a topic question to students. I ask students to reflect on what they did in the situation in small groups. Students exchange their thoughts in the group and between groups. Later the week, we revisit the same topic and see how students\u2019 thoughts change. They reflect their thoughts and changes since the last discussion.","dateCreated":"1384567449","smartDate":"Nov 15, 2013","userCreated":{"username":"mbuskir","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/mbuskir","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1426982592\/mbuskir-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"72634606","body":"Great... now lets go back in time, before you took this action and think about how you might have developed it as action research. Presumable you saw that your students had trouble with interpersonal skills. Perhaps you were finding that you had to settle problems frequently. You might have researched this topic and found that increasing awareness of problems before they appear was a strategy that was recommended. Another might have been to have student share ideas. Then you might have developed this plan. After you put it in place, your measures might include a measure shifts in attitudes. And you might also record how often you have to intervene. Then you would reflect on why you think this action is working or not working and how you could make it more effective or understand better what part is the action is responsible for the change. Then you would make small changes and try again.","dateCreated":"1400818218","smartDate":"May 22, 2014","userCreated":{"username":"mriel","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/mriel","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1202793136\/mriel-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"73642610","body":"Hi Everyone,
\n In 2008, I initiated project-based learning at my school setting implementing iEARN activities on my own classrooms. Then, I started disseminating the use of ICT and online projects with my colleagues along the way. More recently, I have focused on inclusive education and the participation of special education needs students in international online collaborative projects, particularly, with deaf students. I thought the students taking part in this program at school were isolated and I wanted to inform their teachers they could take part in collaborative projects as well as any other students at school. They started with Holiday Card Exchange and Adobe Youth Voices project and had (and continue having) great results on both.
\n Even though I really didn\u00b4t know I was doing an step of AR cycle, I have been sharing our initiatives on many instances, as for example, the Image Conference, local TESOL events and IEARN Conferences, besides our own teacher\u00b4s workshop at school.","dateCreated":"1402917973","smartDate":"Jun 16, 2014","userCreated":{"username":"Claudia_Batista","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Claudia_Batista","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1402918760\/Claudia_Batista-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"73803640","body":"Maybe you will want to join an iearn teachers learning circle for the next year and work as a group to develop action research. I developed these materials to better help this process.","dateCreated":"1403647190","smartDate":"Jun 24, 2014","userCreated":{"username":"mriel","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/mriel","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1202793136\/mriel-lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"64956216","dateCreated":"1384500814","smartDate":"Nov 14, 2013","userCreated":{"username":"mriel","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/mriel","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1202793136\/mriel-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/ccar.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/64956216"},"dateDigested":1531982596,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Most Compelling Aspects of Action Research","description":"Please share your ideas here.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"67376786","body":"Reflection and follow-up actions and processes. We once in a while reflect on what we said or did. We are so busy that we sometimes cannot sustain our reflection and follow-up on our actions. I view the importance of reflection - deep reflective thinking. With this reflection, I raise a question of how I can improve problems or make things better. Reflection helps me become a better person. We all know the world is not perfect. One of my colleagues told me that my idea is out of reach and may not be realized until later. So we stall here? I like to extend one step out, take an action, which may change our world to be a better place. My favorite quote by Steve Jobs - Connecting the dots. His words gave me a different perspective. Steve said, \u201c... you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something \u2014 your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.\u201d I believe his philosophy lies in the Apple\u2019s creativity and innovation, which built the Apple\u2019s success for today. What we can do is to continue reflecting the matter you care, and to ask ourselves what we can do. This makes quite a difference in our lives.","dateCreated":"1384567419","smartDate":"Nov 15, 2013","userCreated":{"username":"mbuskir","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/mbuskir","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1426982592\/mbuskir-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"72634632","body":"That is a great way to approach life!","dateCreated":"1400818293","smartDate":"May 22, 2014","userCreated":{"username":"mriel","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/mriel","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1202793136\/mriel-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"73642594","body":"Hello Everyone,
\n What really attracts me to AR is that it allows participative observation and learn by doing approach, at least the way I see it now. I just learned it is a cyclic process and not ongoing process as I had been thinking so far. It does make a difference to realize that because the plan of action for the research takes a whole different aspect.
\n Another aspect AC I find compelling, and made my shifting from ethnographic research, is that it involves other people in the process, and not only the dichotomy researcher and subject of research. Besides that, the AC approach is not strictly ehmic as it accepts and balances between qualitative and quantitative aspects of data collecting.","dateCreated":"1402917818","smartDate":"Jun 16, 2014","userCreated":{"username":"Claudia_Batista","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Claudia_Batista","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1402918760\/Claudia_Batista-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"73642674","body":"Please forgive typo... instead of AC please read AR for Action Research","dateCreated":"1402918582","smartDate":"Jun 16, 2014","userCreated":{"username":"Claudia_Batista","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Claudia_Batista","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1402918760\/Claudia_Batista-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"73803608","body":"Thanks for your comments-- it is cyclic and ongoing. Just that at the end of cycles, you share what you have learned and this helps move you forward to new learnings.","dateCreated":"1403646972","smartDate":"Jun 24, 2014","userCreated":{"username":"mriel","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/mriel","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1202793136\/mriel-lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]}],"more":false},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}