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Notepad is NOT badNotepad is NOT badEmploying Yahoo! Notepad as an online research diary in Employing Yahoo! Notepad as an online research diary in
educational enquiry based on a PhD studyeducational enquiry based on a PhD studyByBy
Mahmoud M. S. AbdallahMahmoud M. S. AbdallahPhD Student at Graduate School of Education, University PhD Student at Graduate School of Education, University
of Exeter, UKof Exeter, UK&&
Assistant Lecturer of Curriculum & TESOL/TEFL Assistant Lecturer of Curriculum & TESOL/TEFL Methodology at Assiut University College of Education, Methodology at Assiut University College of Education,
EgyptEgypt
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My Research TopicMy Research Topic
Web-Based New Literacies and EFL Curriculum Design in Teacher Education: A Design Study for Expanding EFL Student Teachers’ Language-Related Literacy Practices in an Egyptian Pre-service Teacher Education Programme
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Why did I think about an online Why did I think about an online diary?diary?
• To hold everything in one place;• To access it online from anywhere;• To manage the whole research process within some
folders;• To record everything relevant to what I was doing;• To reflect on what I was doing;• To avoid much paper stuff which I hate and easily lose;• To understand what I was doing and iteratively develop it;• To employ the affordances enabled by the prevailing
ICTs in serving my own purposes.--Generally, I was thinking this way: “If we have the facility
available online and for free, why shouldn’t we make life easier for ourselves?”
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Reflective LearningReflective Learning
This online diary helped so much with reflective learning during the research process. In other words, I could reflect on what I was doing and improve myself each time I checked my diary. In particular, this diary helped me to:
• Establish relationships between old stuff and new stuff, and compare between many aspects and dimensions in a dialogic fashion;
• Determine those aspects in my research work that needed to be improved, and how they could be improved;
• Understand the educational aspects and concepts I was dealing with, and create clear-cut divisions between them so as to distinguish them;
• Identify those obstacles that were hindering or interfering with my learning;
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Reflective Learning (2)Reflective Learning (2)
• Record relevant arguments and pieces made by educationalists and researchers in the field to come out with my personal appreciation and critical analysis while I was reviewing literature;
• Modify my already existing arguments based on new developments, events, and updates through using the ‘update note’ facility enabled by Yahoo! Notepad;
• Create my personal educational database that I could access from anywhere at anytime and which I can easily print out if required;
• Share online with my supervisors certain aspects that we had to work on together;
• Construct online research tools making use of many ideas and resources that could be saved as notes in the relevant folders.