PhD Skills

Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: Take Me Home, Country Roads (John Denver)
Topic: PhD Skills
Well had my meeting with Doug yesterday on mostly the PhD skills. James couldn’t make it since he had a problem with his eyes, and John didn’t turn up.
The PhD skills are a bit tedious to go through, but Doug and I did well [...]

Meeting with John about data analysis

Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: Surfin’ USA (The Beach Boys)
Topic: Data Analysis
So, had my meeting with John this afternoon and James came along to the meeting as well. Well, I discussed with John my idea of converting the disciplines into soft and hard, pure and applied, life and non-life. He indicated that they were doing something similar [...]

Informal meeting about Lit Review

Mood:  cool
Now Playing: The Loco-motion (Little Eva)
Topic: Meetings
So, had a meeting with James this morning in the refectory – supposingly about my lit review. But we never really got to around to it properly. I knew it was bad – and I told him so – and he says he thinks that I knew where [...]

Some questions for the Computational and Learning Questionnaire

Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: Put your head on my shoulders (Paul Anka)
Topic: Questionnaire
James and Doug basically made me scrapped my two dimensional questionnaire, because it is going to be difficult to find relationships if the two dimensions don’t correlate (there were some more arguments ). Anyway, they probably know what’s best – especially since this [...]

Computational and Learning Questionnaire

Mood:  chillin’
Now Playing: Karma Chameleon (Culture Club)
Topic: Questionnaire
So, had an informal meeting yesterday with Doug and James … that went well … James and I were updating Doug on the position of my research … and its great to get Doug’s input … at first I was wondering if he would have added anything … [...]

John’s paper

Mood:  lazy
Now Playing: Dekho Maine Dekha Hai (Love Story)
Topic: Factor Analysis
Well, I’ve been reading the paper John sent me on “Teacher’s beliefs and intentions concerning teaching in higher education” (first author is Norton, L.). I only have the author’s proof mind you … so the document might change … but so far very interesting document [...]

Supervisory meeting

Mood:  lazy
Now Playing: song from Mohabbatein
Topic: LP Software
I had my supervisory meeting on Monday, it seems as if my research might go somewhere yet … we are thinking about correlating lecturer’s view of software with that of the approaches to study view of students … seems like fun … but got to unpack my computational [...]

Coffee Meeting with James

Mood:  down
Now Playing: Aankhen khuli ho ya ho band (Mohabbatein)
Topic: Meetings
Just had an impromptu meeting with James. He came by to drop a paper for me, and I reminded him we were suppose to be having a coffee this week … and then has asked me if I was free right now … and I [...]