The Research Metaphor

I believe it was Dr. King’s who suggested using blog entries to keep a record of thoughts pertaining to the development of our course projects. What a great idea! In fact, this week, as I was thinking more about my project, I was able to look back at my last few blog entries and see an organized, chronological record of ideas I’ve had thus far.

I am going to dedicate this entry to initial thoughts related to the framing of my project. After watching Dr. King’s narrated presentation this week, one metaphor that immediately struck me as being representative of [at least one portion of] my project was the research metaphor. Elluminate will be new to the students in the class that will serve as my audience, and the software is still fairly new to me. Plus, by using the software to assist with the facilitation of a virtual guest speaker, we will be moving even further towards the unknown. Therefore, I look forward to the opportunity for all of us (the students and myself) to experiment with this software and learn (through action research) if the software will be successful in providing an avenue to host a virtual guest speaker.