Category: My Research
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Publishing Process
This past week, I signed off on a publication on interactive whiteboards that I submitted with my co-authors Cathi and John in June 2008. I am proud of this effort because it’s my first first authored publication on research that is not related to my dissertation. It reports a much more practical, applied kind of…
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Dissertation Defense
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…
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NAWPRA
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…
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IKIT Summer Institute 2008
Here’s a snapshot of a session I attended this morning at the IKIT Summer Institute called Principle-Based Teacher Development: Advances and Issues (left to right: Kimberley Mackinnon, Suzanne DeFroy, Clare Brett, Thérèse Laferrière, Katerine Bielaczyc, Carol Chan) And some more from lunch with Thérèse, Stephane, Ana and Chris taken on my Nokia cell phone and…
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ICLS 2008
More recently, I was at ICLS 2008 in Utrecht, NL, where I participated in a First Timers Workshop and presented a paper based on my dissertation research. The First Timers Workshop organized by Marcia Linn, Janet Kolodner, and Naomi Miyake was fantastic. Here is the workshop description: The First Timers Mentoring Workshop is designed to…
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E-Learn 2007
Here is my powerpoint presentation for E-Learn 2007 in Quebec City next week: http://fcis.oise.utoronto.ca/~nfujita/Elearn07.ppt Sorry about this, I couldn’t figure out how to change my permissions in WordPress so I could upload the powerpoint file!
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Design-Based Research
I have blogged about design-based research (aka design experiments or design research) before, but I thought I’d share some new resources that I’ve come across from reading an entry from U of M’s Learning Technologies Centre Research Blog last month. First, there’s a website for a tutorial that was held at ED-MEDIA 2007 that provides…
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Conferences and Community
I just got back from the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) Annual Conference at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, SK. What a great conference! Leading up to the conference, I was a bit reluctant about disrupting my thesis writing schedule, but once I was there, I was thrilled to meet and…
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Seeing the forest AND the trees
In the past year or so, I’ve been intensely focused on analyzing my online discourse data. At first, to be honest, I could barely stand to look at it. Once I did get some detachment from the data, I really immersed myself in it. I conducted in-depth content analyses, trained an alternate coder, and calculated…
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AERA 2007 – Part 2
Well, they sure don’t call Chicago “The Windy City” for nothing! The following snapshots (taken after my presentation on Friday) really are deceptive. We only had a couple of sunny days during AERA. This is the view from the hotel where Wendy and I stayed. Fans of Wilco’s (2001) album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot will recognize…