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Action researcher from Northern New Mexico who is seeking to expand my ways of knowing / learning / being / acting to support meaningful social change.

San Antonio
Joined April 2008
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Here at IDS, in the Octagon, is a hidden treasure trove: the Participation Resource Centre. Recently, Robert Chambers has fed into the collection by sorting out his home office. Mariah Cannon & Alice Webb spent time looking through the resources. Blog➡️ ids.ac.uk/opinions/a-partici…
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A participatory treasure trove ids.ac.uk/?p=95372 via @IDS_UK Many methodological innovations only exist in hard copy form! This blog gives an idea of the wealth of the participation resource center at IDS. #actionresearch #ids
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I was featured in episodes 7 and 8 of the AR Podcast— check it out!
New Episode Alert! Ep.7 of the Action Research Podcast is live! Tune in to hear Dr. Alfredo Ortiz Aragon, co-author of the 5th Edition of Action Research with renowned Action Researcher Dr. Ernie Stringer, discuss issues in the field. Please download share subscribe and enjoy!
Getting excited about the launch of the new Participatory Action Research (PAR) SIG at ICQI 2020! #icqi2020
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Thinking Twitter takes more than it gives (relationship issues?), and feeling like it's more information overload
Writing 140 characters and thinking that this absolves me from having to actually make an effort to stay in touch!
Writing that Joe Hudson is a big turd, because I know he is following me now.
Cool video focusing on acting or not acting, without having to resolve whether CC exists or not: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF_anaVcCXg
Decided with my wife no more gold (10 yr anvrsry coming up)--it's not worth it: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/01/gold/larmer-text
Talking twitter with my wife
Good advce frm Lynn re my PPT quandaries: "Give a handout with your bullet points but save the ppt for thought provoking emotional imagery."
Yet it (ppt) is a wonderful CRUTCH for organizing TONS of CONTENT to deliver industrial strength BEST PRACTICE to students--HELP!!!!
PPt reinforces the assumption that the world is nice & neat--yet the cultural, creative & interesting stuff is messy, hand drawn & nonlinear
Adjusting Ppt. slides for class and thinking of the day that I can deliver a whole class without relying on creativity killing technology
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thinking about deadlines, and stress, and how to enjoy the ride at the same time
And why that inability to see themselves as part of the development transformation inhibits their desire to strengthen themselves