Peer review

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The work I create and share is constantly being reviewed. The work others do is under my review as they post and share their work. This is a reciprocal process of giving and passing alone. It’s often done with a quick view, and other times it takes a longer look to make a judgement about the value of the ideas to contexts within my networks. There is an element of this in most things I do, whether I realize it or not. This is being re-emphasized today.

I received notification on Twitter that work I’ve created and shared was referenced in a keynote presentation today in Texas, by Whitney Kilgore, titled Student Centered Learning: By Design.

Then I checked the slides from the presentation.

Links to the Humanizing Online Learning book and to my web pages for the Human MOOC were shared.

This led to other links, back to the Eurocall2018 conference happening in Finland, since this was part of the conversation I had yesterday in a Virtually Connecting session from the conference. Louise Ohashi started it with her sharing of conference slide notes on Academia. With this link, I continued on to find this tweet.

It caught my attention because of the academic articles I’d read in DS1 and the peer review process I experienced in that course. It also ties to my own work with students in order to extend the audience for writing, and being becoming comfortable with writing that will be scrutinized, judged, and evaluated by other academics who may or may not know about the context for the writing. https://medium.com/@MariaRitola/peer-review-a-golden-standard-90e272b6bf2

This exploration into reviewing ends with these session notes created by J. Buendgens-Kosten and Shannon Sauro since it directly links to my work with teacher candidates and digital storytelling.

FanTALES:  Preparing Teachers to Work with Multilingual Interactive Digital Storytelling

Thus, I continue to evaluate and judge the work of others, it’s impact or value to the work I do, or the networks in which I share. I’ll pass it along, with a tweet or retweet. I’ll take time to read for meaning and comment in some places. I’ll build connections from one space/place to another. I’m a peer reviewer in more ways than the formal ones mentioned as the ‘golden standard’.