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I spent about 48 hours writing two conference proceedings papers using Writely. Blood shot eyes, wild hair, articles stacked all over my office. And for a moment there, I thought I couldn’t upload the files onto the conference website! Wendy and I were co-authors on one paper in Writely, and we also gave each other…

P1210001.JPG Originally uploaded by nfujita. I’ve decided to enter the Knitting Olympics. I’m going to complete the lovely rabbit in Joelle Hoverson’s Last-Minute Knitted Gifts in 16 days, casting on on Feb. 10th and completing by Feb. 26th. This project wouldn’t be so challenging if I could just knit, but I have to squeeze in…

Last week, I spent a considerable amount of time shopping around for methodology courses (i.e., mixed methods, research frontiers in knowledge media design). I completed course work requirements long ago–I just thought it would be good to learn more about methodology because I think I’ll understand it better in the context of my own data.…

I subscribe to a number of listservs still, in this age of RSS feeds and such. Every now and then, I get good links this way, and this site offers useful resources on all phases of obtaining a PhD might be of interest: http://www.grad.washington.edu/envision/phd/obtainingphd_index.html This came from is the American Educational Research Association Graduate Student…

PC030001.JPG Originally uploaded by nfujita. Ball of Lana Grossa wool=$ 14.99. Set of 5 Prym double-pointed, 2.75mm needles=$6.95. 10 hours of labour per sock at $35/hour=$700. A pair of knitted socks knit by me? Priceless. I thought I’d share my non-academic side. In the summer, you’d find me working on garden design; in the winter,…

In an effort to get myself tagging, I revisited a blog entry by Alex Halavais (I check on the “Keep New” checkbox in Bloglines for this purpose). While reading about what makes for a good tag, I noticed that he mentions a service called 43things that lets you tag life goals. There are lots of…

Now that I can add categories to my blog and categorize the entries, I’ve been thinking about what categories I should add. When I began blogging, I added a category called “Blogs” to talk about weblogs. What else to add? My research leanings would urge me to choose categories that would help me improve my…

Happy Hallowe’en Originally uploaded by nfujita. Lately, I’ve been reviewing literature on reflection. Since many authors acknowledge Dewey (1910/1997) as the key originator in the 20th century of the concept of reflection, I picked up a copy of How We Think. Like his other texts, this one is full of wonderful quotes. Dewey defines reflective…

Wendy kindly solved the problems I was having with my blog template, and showed me how to add a blogroll. Now, I can login from the blog (link wasn’t there before) add/edit categories without getting an error message share some blogs I started aggregating in Bloglines in March 2005 Thanks Wendy! I can now start…

Wendy’s blog entry about the theory-practice gulf struck me on a couple of levels. First, I recall discussing in a research group meeting about three years ago, where I was reviewing a paper for an international conference–a paper on the technology infrastructure for streaming powerpoint. At that time, I was critical of the transmission model…