Monday again - what happened last week? Saw GA last week on Wednesday? and agreed to do paper for ALT-J. looked out papers on software tools and equations.
Also today met Penny for lunch - she gave me a reference.
Aslo saw GA again and we discussed the paper:
Look at a Dream system for mathematicians, define one. Provide evidence. Look at existing software - does any of it have these features?
What can be done already.
How far is BB and chums from achieving this.
Info from Tom who seemed pleased with my ethics stuff. Also get CPT to sign the postgrad form
info about police clearance for work in school
Get 1st school to ask for this in advance. Then it will be OK for all schools. It takes some time.
Equipment - probs with Canon - picture breaks up looks like it needs a head clean.
Sun - down to Souuuthampton
Monday - full day videoing lectures and tutorials
Got home and checked tapes and videos - looking good.
Tuesday - arrived late after missing the M3 junction to Soton - Ended up half way to Portsmouth
as Monday
Got a hall room and stayed overnite - (unti Friday)
Lots of material from workshops and tutorials showing different styles of working but core is the fact that many lecturers and students share common papers for showing, explaining and working on problems. even screens are coopted as pseudo paper. Pointing joiuntly to items.
Lecturers use variety of methods - OHP / chalk / data projector , room not ideal. Nice lllittle break out rooms too.
Also Friday - tested cameras, microphone and other equipment to ensure it all works OK.
Need more tapes, mini discs and batteries.
The finalise the list.
Friday - spent may happy hours labelling the tapes and mini discs ready for the recording sessions. Need some more now.
Thursday - lunch meeting with GA postponed
Had long chat with Tom about ethics - he seems OK with it all.
Wednesday/thursday Spoke to Y on phone. Very useful. said focus on research question!
Saw 2 civil people leave/
No lunch with Y yesterday. She couldn't come.
All geared up to go to Southampton next week. Much planning to do - checklists for equipment etc.
Next phase is to consolidate the work on Usability.
Finally to get BBC stuff in some order.
At last - I spoke to "Yota" and arranged a meeting. She will come over here on 8th July at 1pm for lunch. Now I can work at home tomorrow. Also I talked to John Hitches about the data protection act. I need to make both students and staff aware of this for the videoing stuff.
The final document will need to cover ethics and data protection.
Have been looking at the 2 main engineering text books - the Singh one is great but more limited in scope.
