8 Oct 2009: Gaining confidence in writing

Ether 12:23-25
- the Gentiles will mock at these things
- our weakness in writing
- awkwardness of our hands
- when we write we behold our weakness
- my grace is sufficient for the meek, that they shall take no advantage of your weakness
- i give unto men weakness that they may become strong

Literature Reviews
- key words
- establishing credibility
- marching down the

- choosing the write key words for searching for docs and for RFPs:
scaling up
sustainable
open
developing countries
Nepal
Himalayas
education
OER
open education

- read and refer to what is already written by program officer and/or key authors by RFP
- key question/point is the starting point for the upside-down funnel whereby we open it again.
- appropriate humility is part of credibility
- if my approach is already "the best" approach, what is the point of my research?
- i'll learn more if i present it as a possible solution to the question.
- spell out where you searched and how you show that there are holes in the research
- i searched 23 key words in 16 databases and there is very little published in this areas

- different kinds of information have different kind of half life
- balance: stuff that's current & what is seminal (foundational to the effort)
- email faculty to get 2-3 seminal articles related to the work that you're doing

Rachel Windham through library

Search:
Google (cast the new widely)
Google Scholar (cited by - see how many times)

David Wiley 2002 (learning objects)

ERIC
ProQuest
WilsonWeb
Scopus
IT Forum
ELDIS
tictocs.ac.uk
Upload file to google docs

OER, literacy, developing countries

* Make sure nobody else has done it
* Make sure that you build off what has gone before
* Starting from scratch is the #1 problem

- help people believe that this problem is important and that we really do need to solve it
- the goal of the lit review is to convince them that I am the right person to do this study ( i know what i'm doing and i know what has and hasn't been done)
- for a proposal, you only get 1-2 pages for the lit review

* if we are creating new things, we may have to use new names
* reappropriate old terms

IRRODL (Wiley) new issue Nov 2009
Ask David for this link

THE TEAM
Establishing Credibility

Being able to find a useful question gives credibility
Successful tour of literature
Names of people who will do the work
Grantwriting is never a blind process
-Vitas of people
-Things not default

Vita
- Conferences
- Articles

Get key people according to skills and key words cited
literacy
developing countries
quant (Erika)
qual
software
design
Nepal