Divergence and convergence
This isn't a course related posting as such but more a journal entry to help me grab some "head space". I'm like this on every course I've ever studied, I reach this stage, yet it always takes me by surprise so I'm clearly not learning through experience!
I'm at the point where I've diverged enough - I've been scurrying around collecting acorns of ideas, little germs of inspiration, great handfuls of references and quotes and as the aircraft reaches the top of the climb it has to stall and start letting gravity kick in (mixing metaphors and analogies too!). I should be shifting from collection to storage, from hunting to returning with the spoils, from divergence to convergence but I always find it the trickest thing to judge. I always want to see what is round the next corner or where the next URI leads or what the next chapter of the book tells me when I should really be starting to bring my thoughts together and start consolidating. I need to be more controlled and set myself a time at which I turn back, wherever I am, and head for home.
I also have to get a keyboard for this laptop because the number of times I miss letters or spaces because the keys are too "dead" is driving me nuts!
I'm at the point where I've diverged enough - I've been scurrying around collecting acorns of ideas, little germs of inspiration, great handfuls of references and quotes and as the aircraft reaches the top of the climb it has to stall and start letting gravity kick in (mixing metaphors and analogies too!). I should be shifting from collection to storage, from hunting to returning with the spoils, from divergence to convergence but I always find it the trickest thing to judge. I always want to see what is round the next corner or where the next URI leads or what the next chapter of the book tells me when I should really be starting to bring my thoughts together and start consolidating. I need to be more controlled and set myself a time at which I turn back, wherever I am, and head for home.
I also have to get a keyboard for this laptop because the number of times I miss letters or spaces because the keys are too "dead" is driving me nuts!
posted by Nogbad at 00:12
3 Comments:
I can relate to that! But the journey is so much fun, isn't it? It seems a shame to have to turn back & write about it!
That['s the problem isn't it? It's finding you are swimming along - comfortable and you have to head back :-(
You've really captured the 'feeling' in your posting.
I have been immersed in my background reading/resource activity all week, getting more and more interested in the various threads into which I have been drawn - and now I have to be disciplined and make something of them.
Having said that, I have decided to do my TMA learning objects on developments relating to blogging and, having had it confirmed that the Blogging Activity is a collaborative activity, have also gained some fair exposure to the blogs of both groups (in addition to many external sources).
Good stuff - eh!
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