Nobuko Fujita, PhD

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  • Moving photos over

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    My blog has moved many times–from Blogger to Movable Type, then WordPress as a part of GRAIL, and finally to the most recent migration outside of GRAIL. In so doing, some of my photos went awry (or is it awol?). Thanks to Joan and Chris, I have recovered the photos and am now in the…

  • Dissertation Defense

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    Well, what a journey it has been! On December 8, 2008, I successfully defended my dissertation, Group Processes Supporting the Development of Progressive Discourse in Online Graduate Courses. A week later, I celebrated this event with dear friends and colleagues at L’Espresso Bar Mercurio, which is located across the street from OISE on Bloor Street…

  • Clafouti

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    Another TO bucket list item, complete! If you are looking to savor a mean lemon tart, you might do worse than to visit Clafouti. I would have to do a side-by-side tasting to vote for my fave, but Dufflet Pastries also bakes lovely lemon tarts. They didn’t have any pain au chocolat left at Clafouti,…

  • Plurk

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    On October 10, 2008 I began using Plurk, a “social journal for your life” Here’s my Plurk page It seems that Plurk has attracted some readers to my blog. Check out the Blog Stats (so geeky, I know, but I couldn’t resist 😉

  • Nuit Blanche

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    Chris and I have been checking off more items on our TO bucket list. Last weekend, we savored a really great latté and banana loaf at Café Bernate, which is located just east of the Knit Cafe. The Cascade 220 superwash wool in this photo was actually purchased at Romni Wools. They give 10% discount…

  • NAWPRA

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    On Friday October 3, Julie Kerekes, Zhanna Perhan and I presented our paper, The Pragmatics of Questions in Teacher-Student E-Mails, at the at the The First North American Workshop on Pragmatics (NAWPRA): NAWPRA – North American Workshop on Pragmatics – is an initiative conceived to provide scholars working in the field of pragmatics with a…

  • The Toronto Bucket List

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    Before I leave Toronto, I plan to experience its many attractions as a repose from the academic grind. Witness the flags marking thesis corrections: Fortunately, most of these are done. I am now just waiting for my committee and examiners to agree on an oral defense date. Meanwhile, I distracted myself with a rather more…

  • Hello world! (again)

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    I imported my GRAIL blog posts here as I complete the last phase of my doctoral journey and look forward to starting my postdoctoral work. Hopefully my more recent posts will be easier to find outside of GRAIL.

  • Postdoctoral research

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    Here is a photo of me having lunch at Remy’s in Yorkville with Angela Chow, one of Marlene Scardamalia’s postdocs. It was great to learn about how Angela transitioned from working on her doctorate (supervised by Nancy Law) to working on her postdoctoral research extending her work on motivation. I’m hoping to do the same,…

  • Articulating one’s theory

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    Telling a compelling story that ties together all the findings in one’s research and articulating the contributions to the field can be a challenge. This YouTube video captures the difficulty in a humorous way.