Degree Exhibition February 22, 2006
Posted by Andy Roberts in : exhibition , comments closedWelcome to
DAR - distributed action research - the exhibition
( skip introduction and enter )
Hi and welcome to my online exhibition. For these two weeks I am an exhibitionist, so I’ve been out and about trying to find people and railroad them along here to listen to what I have to say, and I am very grateful indeed that you have arrived. Thankyou.
This is what you are going to find further inside:
A few pages of narrative writing, diagrams, ideas, optional podcasts to listen to, a self analysis poll for you to consider, links to hidden corners of my online presence, and a glossary all designed to take up no more than 15-20 minutes or so of your time, unless you wish to expore further of course.
Since you have managed to find your way here, I’m going to assume that you can get back here again. Please do so whenever you feel the need the re-orientate yourself and especially at the end when you’ve had enough, so that you can leave me some useful critical feedback in the comments section below this entry page. That’s one of the most important parts for me, so please don’t forget to write something. You might like to take notes as you move around and then paste them into a comment, or open up two browser windows - one for browsing the exhibition and one for composing your comment. I’m sure you know best how you like to operate.
So when you’re ready now, this is the way in;
ENTER
schedule of opening and closing times
Admission is open to all and everybody. Bloggers may deep link as well as pointing to the entry page.
“Bring all the people from Victoria Station. Everyone go home
and tell your relations” - Tommy!
I REALLY DO NEED your critical feedback about my research and findings, so please Leave a reply below, or if you prefer send it in an email to me at
aroberts@gmail.com
Thanks.
*update*
Thanks to all who left comments both here and elsewhere. This page is now closed for further comments, but please see a continuation of the discussion in “thesis as a wiki, the validation and defense module”
Exhibition preparation December 9, 2005
Posted by Andy Roberts in : exhibition , add a commentPhew. The exhibition preparation module report was completed on time, at some considerable human cost, and it’s available online here:
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pilot October 22, 2005
Posted by Andy Roberts in : exhibition , 13commentsAh, there you are 
Thanks ever so much for entering my pilot exhibition page and agreeing to take a look around.
What you are about to explore represents only the very early stages of the DAR project. I’m letting you in through this password protected page because I really value your opinions and ideas and I want you to get an idea of what I’ve been getting up to over last couple of months or so.
I’ve been putting together this DAR website which at present consists of a Blog and a Wiki, and I’ve been conducting some research on the internet into my favourite online community. The big idea is to find out more about the special qualities of internet based research, which is something I think more and more people will be needing to do these days, not just by studying the subject but by actually doing it.
As I said already, this is only the very beginning, and I’ve only had time to do two quite small cycles of research so far, but I’ve put what I learned from them onto the Wiki and I’ve found that this works for me as a way of getting started at building what I hope will develop into a really useful resource not just for myself but for other online researchers as well. That may take quite a long time, so I’ve made a start on now.
OK, the chances are if I carry on writing more and more text about it here, you’ll lose patience with me and start clicking around already so before you do that, I’ve recorded a little “podcast” style sound file which you can listen to, to save your eyes from strain and your attention span from boredom.
When you’ve listened to the podcast, do please have a good look around the links I’ve provided to the research findings, explore the Wiki a bit and the blog if you like, but the most important thing for me is that you come back here and leave me some feedback in the box below where it says “leave a reply”. Otherwise there will be no evidence that you’ve actually visited, and I’ll be left without any ideas and opinions other than my own….. here’s the audio file:
……… (xml)Thanks for listening. Now here are the links to the research and stuff - it’s up to you how far you look into it, don’t get lost now
Cycle OnePLAN - LOG / DATA - a reflection - research Findings Derivative DAR Wiki pages: Asynchronous Groups - Research CyclesCycle Two
PLAN - LOG - DATA - research Findings - Report Back to group - More reflections
Derivative DAR Wiki pages: Wiki Facilitation - Record Keeping
Now if you would be so kind, could you please leave me some feedback by using the comments box below. It may help to structure your feedback if you use two sections:
1) about the DAR idea, the research and the proposed Wiki
2) about the presentation of this ‘pilot exhibition’ and your experience of it.
One last thing, if you’d like to take your participation further and stay involved with this project then please do join the DARnet googlegroups email list.
is an online professional who initiated DARnet 
