Mood: lazy
Now Playing: Everybody’s Someone (Leann Rimes and Brian McFadden)
I’m just feeling really lazy at the moment. In order to jump-start my Chapter 6, I thought I should write my thoughts here and do some planning around what I should write. Ok, well when I finished Chapter 5, there were somethings that I decided to look [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Writing’
June 16, 2008
Figuring out Chapter 6
February 28, 2008
Data Collection – More Worries!
Mood: hug me
Now Playing: Audio from my data collection
I’ve been trying to transcribe my data and also synchronize my videos. I find it easiest to synchronize my videos with audio using Dubit and inputting the wav file. Although got to use Audacity to convert the mp3 into a wav file – and it makes it huge! [...]
February 11, 2008
Vygotsky and Self-explanations
Mood: a-ok
Now Playing: Gill’s mobile ringtone
I think this literature review is starting to make some more sense but not entirely sure. I think I’m going to see how well I can link Vygotsky with self-explanations, some guy called Schwarz had done some work in this area so, I’m going to have a read of his papers tonight [...]
February 4, 2008
Restarting the literature review
Mood: a-ok
Now Playing: If you leave me now (Chicago)
Right, I’ve decided to restart looking at my literature review – because the truth is I have no idea – and the weekend certainly didn’t make it any clearer. So, what I’m going to do without any pressure of looking at a word document is to write here [...]
January 29, 2008
Literature Review
Mood: rushed
Now Playing: Little Old Wine Drinker, Me (Dean Martin)
Topic: Literature Review
Right, I’ve been trying to get my head around my literature review and have to say it has not worked! I have no idea what I’m writing or where to start. It seems like a bunch of words with no story with nothing really [...]
December 12, 2007
Argghh … Thesis Writing
Mood: lazy
Topic: Thesis writing
Well … I got my comments back from my methodology chapter … not entirely favorably … hopefully it gets better as I rewrite it. I need to put a whole section into the validity and reliability of qualitative and quantitative data and how these two differ from each other. And also make [...]
October 30, 2007
Writing a paragraph :)
Mood: a-ok
Now Playing: Na Tum Jano Na Hum (Kaho Naa Pyar Hai)
Topic: Thesis writing
So, this is turning out to be a lot harder than I anticipated. I think it is because I have no clear structure in my head, so have no idea what to write. But got to keep writing, never know how useful [...]
April 24, 2007
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 [...]
January 22, 2007
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 [...]
December 1, 2006
Feedback from Chapter 1 Draft
Mood: don’t ask
Now Playing: One or the Other (Paula Abdul)
Topic: Thesis writing
Well, sent off the first draft of the chapter 1 (which I have to admit wasn’t that great ) – it was just about 2000 words. Anyway, John sent back some critical feedback and for some reason I started feeling defensive about my [...]
