http://kafga.blogsome.com New Literacies, Education and Social Impact Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:05:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en  The directors of the Liverpool & Manchester company were unsure whether to use locomotives or stationary engines ... http://kafga.blogsome.com/2008/03/31/mechanics-magazine-description-of-the-competing-engines/   Science and Society Picture Library       Science and Society Picture Library - Search Blogged with the Flock Browser http://kafga.blogsome.com/2008/03/31/science-and-society-picture-library-search-2/ This is the blog of Anya Ixchsel aka Australian academic Angela Thomas who specialises in mulitiliteracies. Her research into the Second Life virtual environment is addictively interesting….. http://anya.blogsome.com/ http://kafga.blogsome.com/2006/10/16/i-anya/ Two prevelant types of inquiry: deductive (Aristotle) inductive (Bacon) deductive inductive method: back and forth movement..investigator first operates inductively from observations to hypotheses, and deductively from hypothesis to implications in order to check validity against accepted knowledge (Mouly 1978) research: systematic contolled, empirical investigation of hypothetical propositions (Kerlinger) research v. ... http://kafga.blogsome.com/2006/05/21/chapter-1-nature-of-enquiry/ A hypothesis, described by Cohen et al as an ‘educated guess’. According to Kerlinger (1970) there are three criteria for a good hypothesis: - It should be a statement about the relationship between two variables - It should carry clear implications for the testing of the stated relations - Should disclose compatability with existing ... http://kafga.blogsome.com/2006/05/21/hypothesis/ This section will focus on developing my methodology for my masters degree http://kafga.blogsome.com/2006/05/17/introduction/ Having read Michael Goldhaber’s excellent ideas on the attention economy I recently tried a little experiment; to see how many views, comments and favorites I could get using the Flickr photo sharing application. This photo represents my best effort so far; over 200 views, 17 comments and 4 favs! Do ... http://kafga.blogsome.com/2006/04/25/flickr/ Well, this is my first post to my first blog. I thought it would be a good place to start with an introduction to the title of this blog. ‘Pyramids and Pancakes.’ It is the title for a chapter from a book written by Michael Lewis ‘The Future Just Happened.’ ... http://kafga.blogsome.com/2006/04/23/hello-world/