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 [...]

Teaching and public understanding of science (bit of a rant)

Mood:  lazy
Now Playing: Making Love Out of Nothing At All (Air Supply) – Live Edition – doesn’t sound so good
Topic: Seminars
So, went to this seminar on Thursday which was organised by the RSA (The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce) which was held in the Berill Building at 6pm. We had [...]

Zsolt’s seminar

Mood:  bright
Now Playing: Old Paint (Chris LeDoux)
Topic: Seminars
So, I went up to Manchester to see Zsolt’s presentation. It was entitled “The investigation of the integration of Computer Algebra Systems into University-level Mathematics Teaching” which is really similar to my work.
In his presentation he is describing a piece of qualitative research he did with 22 lecturers [...]

Got accepted for the ICTM conference

Mood:  lazy
Now Playing: Bholi Si Surat (Dil to Pagal Hai)
Topic: Seminars
So, on Friday afternoon the ICTM panel finally wrote me back and said that my abstract has been accepted and that I could present. Good! So, discussed it with Doug and John at our last meeting on Monday and they’ve both agreed to my going, [...]

U500 Case Studies Worshop

Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: I Swear (John Michael Montgomery)
Topic: Seminars
So, went to the case studies workshop on Tuesday, I attended the same one last year, but last year I had an entirely different focus … whilst this year I have no focus . No that’s a lie … I do have some kind of focus, [...]

Keith Trigwell and John’s presentations

Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: Sooner or Later (Supertramp)
Topic: Seminars
Thought the last entry was getting too long so decided to post it in a next entry.
Keith presentation although alright didn’t engage my attention as much as Noel’s (which is quite surprising since I was more interesting in Trigwell and Prosser work in the MSc!). I think perhaps [...]

Students’ perceptions and approaches to studying: a colloquium cont’d

Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: Surfin’ USA (Beach Boys)
Topic: Seminars
Well, didn’t get to finish talking about the seminars yesterday since I had to go to a driving lesson and when I came back I had to go to a meeting for the International Students’ Day Debriefing and then got chatting with Gill. Anyway, here it continues, and [...]

Students’ perceptions and approaches to studying: a colloquium

Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: Fire and Rain (James Taylor)
Topic: Seminars
So, I went to a colloquium yesterday which was led by John in the Wilson building which is a part of the Higher Education Policy and Practice Research Group (HEPPRG) – of course we had two of the big names there: Keith Trigwell and Noel Entwistle. So, [...]