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Recently, I’ve been checking out TeacherEd.com, powered by ELGG, an open source “personal learning landscape.” It is pretty neat, and I like that I can present my story of becoming an educational researcher as it were, and talk to others in teacher education also interested in learning technologies, constructivist learning theory, etc. Online spaces like…

hostas Originally uploaded by nfujita. A couple of days in the garden, I spent, to recover from the relentless race that is academia… What a busy year it’s been. I began collecting my data just over a year ago, and just now completing this phase of the thesis journey, as the final online questionnaire responses…

CSSE May 28-31, 2005 London, ON Originally uploaded by nfujita. Here we are, looking pretty relaxed after brunch following our symposium on manifold relational understanding (MRU) on the 29th! It was great to see how our research in different contexts–undergraduate medical, preservice, graduate, secondary math and primary science–informs Earl’s new theory. He’ll be presenting the…

Hart House (side) Originally uploaded by nfujita. Beautiful day on University of Toronto campus today, so took some photos for those grad students who don’t make it to campus much. This photo is of Hart House, my favourite haunt when taking a break from working on powerpoint slides and reviewing papers in a windowless lab!…

view1 Originally uploaded by nfujita. To test out more flickr features, I decided to see what a blog entry would look like entered from their site. It works pretty well. I can also login through Movable Type and edit the html. Works well enough, in fact, that I can focus on the content of this…

Some of my participants say they decide which online notes to read based on juicy titles, so I couldn’t resist trying this strategy out for a blog entry:) Yes, I’ve been at another conference, OISE/UT’s Teacher Education for the Schools We Need Conference. Clare, Kim and I co-presented a paper on the Technology Infusion Project…

While scanning through my many Bloglines feeds this afternoon, this entry on Ken Smith’s blog caught my eye. Smith suggests that Cronin’s own scholarship provides clues about some ways for academic bloggers to justify blogging as scholarship on the academy’s own terms, eventhough Cronin has blasted blogs as “bathetically ludicrous online gibberish.” My curiosity was…

This week, I’ve met face-to-face with a lot of students from CTL1608. Earlier in the week, I was at OISE, and met Seeta and Julie for the first time. This morning, I met up for coffee with Lynn and Peter at The Planet, which is my favourite Peterborough eatery. We’re hoping to meet regularly and…

I was just browsing around on the Plone website and found the Euro CSCL site, which uses Plone. Pretty neat. Lots of stuff from the Finnish knowledge building folks, including a blog, FLOSSE Posse, a group blog consisting of members of Free and Open Source Software Association (VOPE) from Finland.

Wow, what an incredible conference! I definitely recommend graduate students in education to attend future AERA conferences if they can. I went with one of my committee members, Earl Woodruff, which was great. He introduced me to some of the scholars in the learning sciences community that I much admire–James Greeno, Roy Pea, Tim Koschmann,…