I have something to write about and I believe I can be more focused this time round. Yay.
I read “Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes” by Robert M. Emerson over the weekend as I was preparing myself for my first-ever classroom observation tomorrow. Never done it before, never seen anyone do it, neither have I attended any classes; but I have spoken to a helpful expert who recommended this book to me.
So it’s really going to be a learn-by-doing. Apprehensive and excited, I was charging the battery of my video-cam and various when I was notified that I could not start tomorrow for some reason. An anticlimax for sure.
But well, I have to get used to this. Many things are not within control when it comes to classroom research.
Come to think of it, many things are not within control in life in general.
Past 10pm. My sis would advise against any vigorous activity between 10pm to 2am as that is the time when the body rests. I am not sure if that is true but it is a convenient excuse for me to stop…
Before I go, I welcome comments from anyone who happens to be in the same novice-in-classroom-research boat as me as well as advice, etc.
