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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,…

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 😉

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…

A while back, Torill Mortensen noted that someone needs to write an article on knitting weblogs because there are many good ones out there that share information, create a community, and use photography and other graphics. There is at least one article that I know of on knitting blogs: Wei, C. (2004) Formation of norms…

Nobuko’s weblog as graph Originally uploaded by nfujita. Just for fun, check out websiteasgraph where you can generate a graph of a website, or in my case, my weblog!! There is also a flickr tag websiteasgraph where you can share them. Interestingly, I found reference to the websitegraph on a knitting blog, Mason-Dixon Knitting .…

Getting back to the visualization of KF activity, I’ll elaborate on what these graphical representations suggest about the students’ participation over time, and their relationships with each other and ideas in terms of build-on, reference, and annotations. (I know the photo has nothing to do with the visualizations, but I’m overjoyed that it is finally…

I’ve been test coding in NVivo, and wondering how I can capture the richness of my data (hmm, sounds like something Bruce might say) while avoiding duplication of analyses available through tools like ATK and what Chris has been making great strides on using Ruby on Rails. For instance, do I code scaffolds in NVivo,…

Clare, Wendy and I are in Orlando, FL to present on GRAIL at an international conference of the Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education, SITE2006. In our symposium on Monday, Clare introduced the background and conceptual framework for the project, and Wendy and I presented our questionnaire paper on students’ understandings of their graduate…

While GRAIL designers and software engineers met in the lab, I headed off to a workshop for women graduate students and postdocs offered by the Career Centre called Positioning Yourself for a Career in Academia with Kim and Latika. (left to right: Chris Teplovs, Mark Hume, Wendy Freeman & Clare Brett) The workshop was in…