| Summary: | 碩士 === 臺中師範學院 === 自然科學教育學系碩士班 === 94 === Action Research on Running a Teacher Action Study Virtual Community
Abstract
This research aims to explore how to run a successful Teacher Action Study Virtual Community (TASVC) in the domain of Science and Life Technology. When actively participating in the TASVC, teachers are believed to make great progress in their professional field by incessantly interacting with each other, inclusive of finding out the difficulties they face in the course of good interaction and providing themselves with the strategies to solve the problems, accordingly. Adopting the method of action research, the researcher has conducted this study for about two years since August, 2003. During that period, the researcher plays the role of a participatory observer who collects such data as Q and A survey, interviewee’s information, and web literature. By taking the qualitative analysis, the researcher reaches the key outcomes as follows:
1. This research makes use of xoops as the web platform for TASVC members to operate. With its complete in-built functions, the xoops is characterized by compatible elasticity and easy manipulation. Thanks to the very features in xoops, those teachers interested in TASVC are accessible to there where they can foster their professional growth. And the result the exercise of xoops brings about is both substantial and appreciable.
2. When exercised practically, TASVC is inevitably faced with such difficulties as most members reluctant to go webbing, the subjects for discussion too academic, members lacking common experiences, and all the unfavorable factors existing within each member.
3. The effective strategies in running TASVC are composed of sifting competent TASVC members, finding out the members who have experiences in common, exhuming the members who are willing to send TASVC messages,searching for those enthusiastic panel anchors, coordinating the real activities with the virtual ones, and selecting those suitable topics for discussion.
4. The TASVC runners are obliged to hasten the intimate interaction between all the TASVC members by using such tactics as promptly renewing website information, offering feedback and assistance to the members, deepening the friendship and trust between all the members, adding more opportunities for all the TASVC members to express their own opinions, and providing abundant resources for the members to use .
5. Adopting the way of action research, the researcher gains inspiring professional growth in the process of unceasing contemplation and rectification. Knowing how to run and administer TASVC, understanding how to enhance the researcher’s action study ability, and learning how to encourage and help teachers to take part in TASVC are all most valuable and unforgettable experiences the researcher has had in running a TASVC.
Keyword: Virtual community, Teachers' professional growth , Action Research.
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