Anecdotes as evidence

Anecdotes

The well-known Arpanet was the first operational packet-switching network. 1 Almost completely unknown is what we claim was the second operational packet-switching network, the LFK Network—although, admittedly , it was a fairly minimal network. Work on the LFK Network began in fall 1970, and it was installed and accepted by fall 1972. It was used as part of a logistics system relating to the No...

Anecdotes

Anecdotes and Antidotes – Stories as Balms, Storytelling as Healing

The following article refers to a performed presentation, from the Double Dialogues Conference, Art & Pain, at The University of Melbourne, May 10, 2003. The presentation involved an audio-visual configuration in which I was speaking whilst simultaneously vision-mixing ‘live’ images from a camera and images from a pre-recorded videotape. The pre-recorded images were from the creative video prac...

Evaluating anecdotes and case reports.

Stories are more memorable than statistics. Newspaper or magazine articles about some new chemotherapy for cancer typically will include an interview with a patient who is doing well on it. Websites of alternative practitioners and clinics sometimes feature stories by or about patients describing their successful treatment. These stories can be very persuasive to readers, but some scientists di...

Moving Forward: Anecdotes and Evidence Guiding the Next Generation of CALL

This paper is grounded in the concept that it is the use of the technology to support language learning, not the technology itself, which makes a difference in language learning contexts. From this foundation, this paper provides a brief overview of some of the issues in the field of CALL that currently hold import and may be even more central in the future. It addresses concerns in research, t...