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The concentrated studies I have undertaken hitherto tentatively, but will re-visit as part of thesystematic research phase of the project, conform to accepted descriptions of reflections oncritical incidents as in the work of Jasper (2003) who says:“We have used this term to refer to any specific occurrence that happens to us that we canuse as a focus for our reflective activity. Utilising these for analysis using a structuredframework enables us to build up a collection of evidence of our learning anddevelopment” (Jasper, 2003 p. 154)‘Telling a story’ is, in human behavioural terms, achievable in a number of ways, one of whichis autobiography (see next sub-section). Here is some advice for those writing reflectivelywithin the field of medicine at Monash University in Australia,“A critical incident need not be a dramatic event: usually it is an incident which hassignificance for you. It is often an event which made you stop and think, or one that raisedquestions for you. It may have made you question an aspect of your beliefs, values,attitude or behaviour. It is an incident which in some way has had a significant impact onyour personal and professional learning.” (CALT, 2008)The selected critical incidents or 'illustrative moments' (IMs) as I am choosing to name them,seem to me to have raised questions for me, questioned existing behaviours and practices and,since I am no longer a teacher of religious education, seem to have had an impact on mypersonal and professional learning. This is further explored in section 3.1.7In the context of defining a research methodology the object, ‘myself’, becomes the subject ofthe study for it is to be used as a key to unlock the space at the interlocution of epistemology,self and (information) technology, in this auto/biographic case study. In Husserl’s account ofphenomenology, “noetic analyses look at the structure of acts […] whilst noematic analyses lookat the structure of objects.” (Russell, 2007 p.84; or Sokolowski, 2000) Were the study to be ofthe technologies I have worked with to achieve my professional learning gains, the analysis148Simon Hughes Ph.D. Thesis (October 2012)