BSRLM Conference

Mood:  special
Now Playing: Ghost (Bananarama)
Topic: Seminars
Well, I went to the Cambridge seminar on Tuesday – which was fun getting the students’ feedback – I think the things I’ve gained from that has mostly been in the preparation of the materials and doing some preliminary qualitative analysis. Fatin suggested that I probably could let students who [...]

PME Conference

Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: PME president talking
Topic: Seminars
I’m at the PME conference at the moment and so far it is going well … although the lunches could be better . My presentation is this afternoon … hopefully it will go well but not sure … bit nervous about getting hard questions and I’m [...]

Kaleidoscope conference

Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: Loote Koi Man Ka Nagar (Abhimaar)
Topic: Seminars
Well, went to the Kaleidoscope conference in Cambridge with Gill on Friday. It was quite good, although I think the attendance was less this year. I was mainly in the maths/technology stream – well I didn’t go anywhere else because the rest of the papers didn’t [...]

CAL paper writing

Mood:  cool
Now Playing: Radha Kaise Na Jale (Lagaan)
Topic: Thesis writing
(Technically not thesis writing)
Well I’m back again from vacation and I’m hurriedly trying to put together my paper for the Computers and education journal and it seems to be taking forever, because I don’t know how to write a methodology paper it was so much easier [...]

CAL conference

Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: Tujh Pe Gagan Se (Chalte Chalte)
Topic: Seminars
Well, I’m back from Dublin after the CAL conference. Dublin was great – the CAL conference was OK. Well, not so great for me because there weren’t a lot of seminars on my area. There were quite a lot on development (which I found myself going [...]

Back at the OU/ PME paper/ pilot study analysis

Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: La Bamba (Los Lobos)
Topic: Data Analysis
I’m back at the OU trying to get into the swing of things. I still have no clue about my main research study … and I need to firm that up quickly, because think I need to get that started by March.
Whilst I was on holiday I [...]

CAL ‘07 Conference Abstract

Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: I want you so bad (Heart)
Topic: Seminars
On Friday, submitted the CAL abstract and it is looking pretty good. James sent me some comments and did it up quite nicely, and got Rebecca and Gill to look at my abstract also (and in turn looked at theirs!). Now go to get the work [...]

CAL ‘07 abstract

Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: Barbara Ann (The Beach Boys)
Topic: Seminars
I churned out an abstract for the CAL ‘07 conference – but not quite sure how good it is, sent it oft to James, Doug and John – so, far got a response from John – who said it looks alright – once it is tidied up.
At [...]

ICTM Conference

Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: Draw of the Cards (Kim Carnes)
Topic: Seminars
So, came back from Turkey yesterday (arrived home at 7pm) … the conference in Istanbul was great … met a lot of people who I was able to network with – particularly people from Australia from a range of universities – so that was good.
Hung out [...]

U500 conference

Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: The First Time (Freddie Hart)
Topic: Seminars
So, next week is the U500 conference … and I’m presenting on the Wednesday. Slightly apprehensive of it this time, because this time around, I’m not as certain as I was last year on what I’m doing. Last year I pretty much knew, this year I’m still [...]