• What have I learned about action research and its many applications? The greatest part of action research or administrative inquiry is it’s all in-house, so to say. Action research isn’t something some professor or random writer who may have no or very little educational or classroom experience put together as some band-aid to a problem, they have no idea about. Action research allows the administrator or principal to fix something on campus that they have witnessed firsthand. This allows the principal to participate in their solutions to problems they have seen in education at their campus. This gives them the advantage of being able to adjust their solutions by the changes they see implemented or the changed data. Using action research shouldn’t be that hard. The first step is to come up with an idea, a solution to a problem that is seen in education, in the classroom, even on campus. After that a plan is formulated, how is the problem going to be solved? What can be done about it, and how can the success or failure be measured to ensure that the next try will provide a greater chance of success. Lastly, after all the data is collected, it should be looked over again. Is there something that needs to changed, is the solution believed to be the fix, in need of a new hypothesis? After all is said and done, it will either be implemented or not, to me that process should be applied to the use or misuse of technology in school.
• Blogs are basically an online diary that can be read by any one. Each entry is documented in the order of last/newest post. Older posts can be pulled up simply by keyword or archive searches. Images, texts and links can be placed with the entry, given not only writer but readers, information that either supports or disproves the idea.
