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Wendy sent me the link to this irresistible site that lets you construct your very own South Park character: http://www.vexatori.de/zib/spstudio.html Pretty neat! You can even select blood-shot graduate student eyes, should you choose to do so… I’m finally working on the draft of the paper on learning journals with Clare and Bruce that I started…

Earlier, I blogged about a conversation Amy and I had in response to Ben Levin’s keynote at the IKIT Summer Institute 2005. In talking about knowledge building as an educational reform, Levin suggested that new graduates from preservice programs are not likely to change the educational system significantly (i.e. scale up knowledge building). This made…

Canoe Originally uploaded by nfujita. Upon return from my vacation in Vancouver, I was thrust into the frenzy of taking a course (THE500H) and team teaching a course (CTL7011H). So, it was nice to go off on a canoe camping trip in Algonquin for a few days last week. I’m online most of the time,…

Howe Sound Originally uploaded by nfujita. I should be blogging about my research, but this is hard to do on holidays in Vancouver, visiting friends in town, on the Sunshine Coast, and on Vancouver Island. We’ve swam at Kits Pool, sailed a Hobie at Jericho Sailing Centre , visited many of our friends who’ve moved…

I have been having a lot of fun playing with Squeak. The drag and drop scripting makes it a lot more accessible for those who can’t program, like me. It is easy to use, and I think students would enjoy learning math using something like this. It sure beats the traditional chalk and talk approach,…

Last week, I was at the IKIT Summer Institute 2005, which is a great place to meet and talk to fellow researchers interested in knowledge building. I presented on a panel, my first one ever. I’m definitely the rookie in this collaboration (what a great learning experience!). We had a good conversation going with the…

As a budding academic, I enjoy reading blogs by fellow ABDs and professors, especially those that reveal more intimate personal identities alongside professional ones. Reading these blogs puts my frantic schedule analyzing data, writing, presenting, and trying to get published into perspective. These academics who parent and teach on top of their research commitments puts…

We launched the distance ed survey last Friday. Hurray!!! Thanks to those of you who contributed to its design and to participants who consented and completed the survey 🙂 I’ve returned to reading and coding my participants’ learning logs from the last course after a hiatus designing the survey. Each time I return to the…

jpconnell Originally uploaded by nfujita. I know, I know there’s no connection between the photo and the content of this blog entry! This morning, in my Bloglines feeds, I had 2 items from OISE/UT’s Ask the Expertssite. This month, you can see video clips of Doug McDougall and Silvana Simone speaking about elementary and secondary…

It sure feels like summer vacation. Eventhough I’ll be working on my thesis research, the SSHRC study, and various papers, I yearn to indulge in summer reading that isn’t research-related. This is what I usually do at the cottage, in between bbq’s and dips in the lake. For interesting, if not light reading, have a…