Publishing/Leadership project part 3 of 3 - A decision has been made

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Today I can finally breathe a sigh of relief. First off, I have finally finished my article and after much debate and research, I have chosen to submit my article to Tech Trends, a peer reviewed journal focusing on technology integration in education and training. In the beginning I was looking into larger publications like Edutopia, but ultimately I felt that my article needed to be submitted to a journal for proper review. While Edutopia is popular, it just didn't seem fitting to an article so deep in research.

With that said, I still have some areas that I have marked down to focus on within my article. First, I have to create an abstract at the beginning of the article. I have never written one before and am looking into examples of how to write an affective abstract. The next area that I want to review is my results and conclusion section. Right now both of these seem a little weak and need more focus on future development. Finally, I also need to figure out what images I should include in my article submission. Since I did not have a ton of people respond to my survey, the charts and data appear weak. While the images of the students working on their projects are great, I don't know if they fit. I am hoping that my wimba session with my peers will help answer some of these questions and help me create a final article that has a chance of publication.

* UPDATE
Last night I had my wimba session with my peers and instructors. They provided some very insightful information that I believe may help my article get published. One of the best bits of information they provided was that of including my future/cycle 3 work. In talking about what will happen beyond Full Sail, many of my peers felt I should add this to my paper and I think it has made a huge difference. Our instructor also gave me some really good advice on how to write an affective abstract and I even had a few comments on grammer issues to fix. The area that I still need some work on are the images to be included in the article. I have added three thus far and know of at least one more that will be added but is at school on my work computer. I believe the images I have added show some of the experiences the students and teachers have gone through, but unfortunately, I did not take any images from the training portion of my cycles. However, I am considering taking some screen shoots from the videos created by the teachers in one of my cycles and adding that as well. 

Publishing/Leadership project part 2 of 3 - Change of plans

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After much debate and guidance from my good friend Ashley, I have decided to move forward with the publishing route for my project. Due in large part to time and the fact that I would need to almost create everything from scratch for a presentation, I have decided to give in. A large reason for this was something written in the directions for this assignment. In the instructions it said " As much as this might seem like a new writing assignment, it should be more a case of copying and pasting and re-editing what you’ve all ready written for your Action Research Project, if you’ve completed your Action Research Web Pages. If you look at the AR Web Pages that you’ve created, each page should neatly fit into the structure required for most journal articles". I have to overcome my fear and realize that time is not on my side. My biggest fear of the publishing route was pure rejection but I have now realized that this is a part of life. In my article I hope I can demonstrate that the idea of a "knowledge broker" is necessary for technology to flourish in the classroom and that my cycles simply prove this. As of right now, I have decided to pursue initial publishing with Edutopia but would like to investigate others including Technology & Learning. My goal now is to look into places to publish as well as begin the writing process.