What do I hope to get out of participation in '23 research things'? Not a nostalgic wallow in the joys of the first time round. Firstness can never be recreated, by definition. Instead, my hopes are these:
- to update my knowledge of things I tried in 2010 and didn't adopt
- to get a fresh perspective and fuller understanding of things I've used, with greater or lesser enthusiasm, since 2010
- to expand my knowledge of things I really ought to have adopted by now, and make myself more useful
In 2011, a second Cambridge series of '23 things' was aimed mainly at people who'd not done such a thing before, but some extra posts were included for participants who were veterans of the 2010 round. I confined myself to those extras. Time will tell whether, in 2016, I follow the entire course, or blog only about those things that are new to me.
Blogging reflectively will be quite an exercise. I managed it in 2010 and 2011. But my most reflective writing since then has been in the log I keep for my MCLIP revalidation, and that is not public.
Wish me luck in this balancing exercise!
Welcome aboard! I suspect you'll find the 23 Research Things programme slightly different to the original 23 Things one purely because this has more of a research emphasis. However, lots of interesting tools to learn about so I look forward to seeing how you get on with them all.
ReplyDeleteIndeed yes: the difference from the original, and specifically the research emphasis, are precisely the reasons why I am following this new one.
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