Our final meeting at MOSI was quite an adventure. At many points, I felt like I was part of a Looney Tunes cartoon and at some point someone was going to pull out an ACME anvil. This is not to say that the meeting was cartoonish, just that, as the culmination of a semester-long project, [...]
Normative Action Research, or Envisioning the Future
We were extremely fortunate to have a skype chat this week with Ib Ravn, a theorist of normative action research (among other things). If I’m going to be honest, I’d have to say that initially, the idea of normative action research seemed a little unrealistic to me. Just for some context, normative action research is [...]
Revolutionizing Reading
Next week, I am conducting some ongoing research aimed at integrating technology into books. So I was particularly engaged last week as I was listening to an Educause podcast of a session from last year’s conference. In it, two representatives from Seton Hall were talking about the laptop initiative that they have on campus. During [...]
Opportunities for Reflection
I’ve been thinking more about my recent visit to MOSI. I mentioned one conversation, but I had a number of conversations that support the idea that in order for visitors to internalize and make lifestyle choices based on information at MOSI, there must be some opportunities for reflection built into the process. Sad to say, [...]
Data Deliberation
Today I made my second trip to MOSI to collect data. I am focusing primarily on dwell times, as that was something D (our contact there) was very curious about. After a visitor or group is done with the exhibits we are looking at, I introduce myself as a researcher from USF and ask them [...]
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