Justin!! Let me start off by saying it's great to be in the same course again!
I feel as though I am commenting on a comment but I had to express how much I agree with your sentiments. I have often heard it said that research on this level should be "contributing to the body of knowledge" and our AR projects should do just that. However, I too have hit several snags in the road as the ideas of execution that start off in my head and meet reality. I am really trying to wrap this up in a way that I have real "usable" data that is meaningful.
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"I must say that this Wimba session had a mixture of emotions. For one, there was a sense of relief, after hearing from other students that their Action Research projects did not go as smoothly as planned - just as mine had done. Joe really made me think about the real purpose of research here – it is not to turn in an assignment, or fabricate an idea of some collection of work, but actually contributing to the real world of experimentation, as it applies to real people in real schools. Since my Action Research depended on other participating teachers for action, some got behind or were not able to keep up to the schedule. After this wimba I realized that is precisely the data, not the deadlines, not meeting my quota, but answering the questions will this work in a real setting. It made me think about how to wrap up this twelve month experience."
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