Nobuko Fujita, PhD

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  • Interaction Analysis – Part 2

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    As a learning scientist with a Psychology and English background rather than a Computer Science one, I find the Suthers’ et al. (2010) article a little bit difficult to digest at times. It’s conceptually dense and sophisticated, so it is not exactly easy reading for a sleep-deprived academic mom, but it’s pretty rewarding. I wish…

  • Interaction analysis

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    Tatiana seems to be settling into an afternoon nap routine here in Paris, so I’ve been trying to catch up on my reading of journal articles. I’ve been meaning to read the Suthers, Dwyer, Medina, & Vatrapu’s (2010) article, A Framework for Conceptualizing, Representing, and Analyzing Distributed Interaction that Dan handed out copies at the…

  • Autumn in France

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    Traveling with an infant is always a challenge, but being academics, we’re often on the road for conferences and such. Fortunately, Tatiana is a seasoned traveler. She’s been in four countries in less than fourteen months. First, we flew to Munich when she was just four months old for the STELLAR Alpine Rendez-Vous 2009. Next,…

  • Death of an email address

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    At the end of this month, my FirstClass/OISEnet email address will be no more. People looking to contact me can do so through my utoronto.ca address which is still active, and there’s also nobuko.fujita@gmail.com This email migration is a bit of a pain. A lot of my logins are connected to the OISE email address.…

  • ICLS 2010

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    Last week, though it seems like a long time ago now, I was in Chicago for ICLS 2010 to present a paper based on my thesis that I co-authored with Chris: Fujita, N. & Teplovs, C. (2010). Software-based scaffolding: Supporting the development of knowledge building discourse in online courses. Gomez, K., Lyons, L., & Radinsky,…

  • Interim Consensus Submission

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    I last blogged about the Digital Economy Consultation Roundtable that I was a part of at U of T. The Interim Consensus Submission is now available in PDF format on the wiki, and those who agree with it are encouraged to endorse it. So if you are so inclined, please do so asap as it…

  • Digital Economy Consultation Roundtable

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    I was invited to participate in the Digital Economy Consultation Roundtable convened at the University of Toronto this week. The roundtable was organized by Andrew Clement and Karen Louise Smith, and funded by the Identity Privacy and Security Institute (IPSI), Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI) and the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto.…

  • Guest lecture for a KMDI course

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    Like Stian, I’ve been invited to give a talk for a course at University of Toronto’s Knowledge Media Design Institute. The graduate seminar course, Knowledge Communities: Patterns and Practices, is taught by Jim Slotta, Cheryl Madeira, and Hedieh Najafi. The  theme for the week is “knowledge building for 21st century knowledge communities,” which is at…

  • Motherhood and Academia

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    It’s been a while since I last blogged. I’ve been meaning to, but writing has become more challenging lately since my little one is now too big to fit into a sling and too wiggly besides! I actually had two drafts of this very post, but neither one had made it to the publishing stage.…

  • Co-authored paper projects

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    Now that I’ve recovered somewhat from the jet lag and inevitable cold that accompanies me home from Europe, I can get to work again on various paper projects. There are those with obvious deadlines coming up, and then there are those with no definite deadlines that I have to just submit to journals despite strong…