After reading Chapter 6 in the text I must admit that I am feeling quite overwhelmed about the writing process that I am about to undertake. This past week I have successfully scanned the abstracts that were returned after my literature search. I selected articles from the original 55 that I would like to read in depth. I eliminated articles based on their relevancy to my interests. I also identified that I need to gather literature that provides theoretical support for PBL or situated learning. As a beginning step to this I found David Jonassen’s website and culled a list of relevant articles from his CV. I also looked back at previous paper’s that I have written on the topic to identify supporting literature.
I have printed out the articles that I selected from the original 55 mentioned above and have begun to read and take notes on these articles. This has allowed me to categorize the articles based on the information that they contain. I have been attempting to use the suggestion given in one of the previous chapter in the text to take notes on an index card to assist in assembling the information for future writing. I am not exactly sure how this is going to work for me but this is the time for trying out various techniques.
I briefly tried without success to work with the reference area in Word. I can’t quite figure out how to use this feature and will need to get some direction from someone who is familiar with this resource. I also successfully set up a specific folder in Ebsco for one of my searches. I am having difficulty repeating this so I guess I will need some help here as well. As I mentioned previously this entire endeavor is a little overwhelming and I feel that I am already behind before I have gotten started.
