Nobuko Fujita, PhD

Category: Connections

  • Oslo

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    Earlier this month, I was at InterMedia, Universitetet i Oslo for a meeting of the Nordforsk Network, Teaching Problem-based Learning in Virtual Learning Environments: Scaffolding Critical Reflection. The Nordforsk Network is coordinated by the University of Aalborg, Denmark and with participants from four Nordic countries. An interesting distinction for those of us from North America…

  • 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.…

  • Midtown Option Critical Inquiry Conference

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    At the recent OISE Research Celebration, “an annual celebration of the issues that matter in educational research,” I was able to pick up a hard copy of the mini-grant publication to which I had contributed and touch base with my co-authors, Cathi and John, coordinators of the Midtown Option. Cathi, John, and I reflected and…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • Pattern Recognition

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    At IKIT Summer Institute 2008, I had the pleasure of meeting Peter Hayes, the Information Technologist for Roslyn Public Schools in New York. Over sushi dinner, he asked me to complete the sequence above. The clue here is the title of this entry, which is particularly appropriate given that the annual Sushi Night was inspired…

  • Lakatos

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    A while back, while writing my AERA 2007 paper, I became fascinated by Imre Lakatos. Here are some resources I found helpful: The London School of Economics and Political Science has a website commemorating the life and work of Imre Lakatos (1922-74) on his 80th birthday. Both mp3 and text versions of Science and Pseudoscience…