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Publishing educational research
Last week, I spent a considerable amount of time shopping around for methodology courses (i.e., mixed methods, research frontiers in knowledge media design). I completed course work requirements long ago–I just thought it would be good to learn more about methodology because I think I’ll understand it better in the context of my own data.…
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Re-envisioning the PhD
I subscribe to a number of listservs still, in this age of RSS feeds and such. Every now and then, I get good links this way, and this site offers useful resources on all phases of obtaining a PhD might be of interest: http://www.grad.washington.edu/envision/phd/obtainingphd_index.html This came from is the American Educational Research Association Graduate Student…
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Mystery
PC160012.JPG Originally uploaded by nfujita. Doing research seems to me quite mysterious unless you already know how to do it. As Roth (2005) notes, various scholars “have come to realize that we can only know about a practice that we already know in practice” (p.ix). I’m currently trying to figure out what there is to…
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Not comparing yourself to others
A sure-fire way to plummet to levels of self-loathing as a graduate student is compare yourself to others, whether they be other graduate students or faculty. Inevitably, there will be people who have won more grants and published more papers, or finished their doctorate in less time. So I try not to become less productive…
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Thesis Timeline
Like Bruce and Wendy, I like to make many lists. Like this one. I’m actually not too far off from the timeline that I laid out in my thesis proposal. I said I’d be analyzing and writing right now, and I am. What I didn’t anticipate was how long data analysis would take, and the…
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Knit Wit
PC030001.JPG Originally uploaded by nfujita. Ball of Lana Grossa wool=$ 14.99. Set of 5 Prym double-pointed, 2.75mm needles=$6.95. 10 hours of labour per sock at $35/hour=$700. A pair of knitted socks knit by me? Priceless. I thought I’d share my non-academic side. In the summer, you’d find me working on garden design; in the winter,…
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Blogging Anniversary
I’ve now been blogging for one year. With encouragement from Wendy and Clare, I tentatively began with 3 entries using Blogger, then switched to the current Movable Type (MT) platform, where I’ve written 53 notes (47 published, 6 draft) and accumulated 12 comments. My original intention in keeping a weblog was to procrastinate from thesis…
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Connecting
On my commutes to and from campus, I often meet other academics who make the 1.5 to 2 hour bus ride each way much more pleasant. Yesterday, for example, I sat with a Trent professor whose reaction upon finding out that I was a fourth-year doctoral student was, “Oh, I’m so sorry” 🙂 She teaches…
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Contradictions
I liked the Alfred North Whitehead quote in the Social Studies section in Globe and Mail today: In formal logic, a contradiction is a signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory I’m not very familiar with Whitehead’s work, but I know Carl…
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Tagging Life Goals
In an effort to get myself tagging, I revisited a blog entry by Alex Halavais (I check on the “Keep New” checkbox in Bloglines for this purpose). While reading about what makes for a good tag, I noticed that he mentions a service called 43things that lets you tag life goals. There are lots of…