Status of my research

I really need the spiritual support from all my friends (your du'a) so that Allah make it easy for me in this this effort to get my research done.  It seem that the first round of data collection does not give me enough data for me to  make any conclusion worthy to be reported.  I need to re-strategies the research method, to some extent redesign it altogether.  With all the workload I have currently, I sure need the spiritual support.  I know I cannot give up.  I must go on continue this struggle til either it is done or I'm done.

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The KPEC schools' location

The locations of the 5 K-Perak E-Learning Cluster (KPEC) schools. Ipoh, Setiawan, Gerik, Kuala Kangsar and Taiping. Their distances from each other are from 30 km to 100 km apart. I have established rapport with these school since late 2007. How ever at that time I was not sure that they will be my participating schools. Three schools are primary and two are secondary.

The new research title

"Teachers adoption of knowledge management technologies (KMT) within a professional development context in Malaysia: An action research study" is my new approved title of my research.

My RP

Alahamdulillah. The defense session went very smoothly yesterday afternoon. It started at 3.35 pm chaired by Assoc Prof Dr Roslina Othman. Prof Dr Bakri & Dr Abdul Rahman Ahlan were the examiners. Also present were Assoc Prof Dr Mohamad Fauzan (my supervisor) and Dr Media as representative of IS Department. Prof Abu (ISHOD) could not make it. I prepared 26 slides for the presentation plus 20 more that were not in the presentation but could help me with the Q & A session. I was given 20 minutes only to present. But the presentation took more than 30 minutes. Of course I'm only halfway through the slides when Dr Roslina inform me that I have 10 minutes left. In that 10 I rushed to finish what I had prepared. You seem to have a lot to say but so little time. You see the best strategy was to highlight only the main critical point of your proposal. The rest is already in the RP submitted. And you must be ready to defend it.
The RP document I submitted on Jun 4th was a dateline document. I fully admit that it has a lot of short comings. Many actions and stances mentioned in it were not justified, so some of the questions were on those that have no justifications. It's not that I don't have them but it was not included (documented) due to the time constrain for me to beat the dateline (May 31st!).
The first question was on the research topic. Alhamdulillah, praised be to Allah that it was the question that we (I and Dr Fauzan) anticipated, as it was the weakest part of the proposal - NOT academic. For days, I search for a suitable topic to replace it. Alhamdulillah, it (the new topic) was accepted with minor changes (omission of some words). (to be continued)