I need to do some writing in the next month or so. And have time to do it. So very happy about this.
I think the “ultimate work environment” question from the My Setup post on Wednesday stuck a bit.
Today I detoured past Officeworks and bought some giant pink postit notes. And coloured small postits. (And some other stationery that may work for reading/note-taking … but more on that in another post).
So, to workshop the idea that I wanted to play with, I made several large sheets, and stuck ideas all over them. The sheets were labelled:
- Investigating a and b (teeny tiny postit in the middle)
- All about a.
- All about b.
- Possible barriers to investigation
- Possible opportunities in investigation
- Possible methodologies
- Where to look (other disciplines/topics with similar enquiry method/topics… for lit review)
- Thematic questions
- Possible journal article topics
… and then I just went to town 🙂
And spent the other half of the day working my way through this 35 000 word article.
Half as professional development to help me with my teaching, and partly because it kind of relates to something I am writing. I am finding I am consolidating knowledge, and filling some very odd, obvious gaps in what I know – which is just great. I always enjoy people writing simply about complex tech ideas. I highly recommend it.
It was recommended by one of the attendees of the [and then I went off to try to find the conference that matched the hashtag I followed in the middle of marking. BUT … I know it was a WordPress one, but could not find it again … what I DID find, however, was a post from Matt Mullewag {Wordpress lead} about the gizmoes he takes when he travels. Considering Wednesday’s post, really interesting reading ((fidget spinners!!))]