OK - the reason I've not added anything since 2006 is because I got a new job and took a break from my studies.
Now I have decided to stop the PhD. This is the end folks. I have been overtaken by events.
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Why do girls lose interest in science? See article on
CNN.com - Why do girls lose interest in math and science? - May 16, 2006
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Report of maths for schools - critical 2006
Ofsted – Publications Section
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Atlas-ti is a useful tool for analysing qualitive data obtained by observations and recording etc. This is the page for their newsletter
ATLAS.ti - The Knowledge Workbench:: Subscribe to the ATLAS.ti Newsletter
posted by LHL @ 12:50 PM
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Exhibition Venues Association - Event Search
Useful like for exhibition listings in UK
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Neptune Web Hosting - Questions and Answers
Recommended cheap web hosting will all you can ask for
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Neptune Web Hosting - Questions and Answers
Recommended cheap web hosting will all you can ask for
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It is now early May 2006.
Now I am free of paid employment. I left my last position at the end of March 2006 and decided to concentrate my efforts on having a nice long break. My first real break from work in 20 years. I really need it to sort out my home and garden and get back to the PhD. I will have a long think about the direction I need to go in beofre I restart. I have been well off track for a couple of years and need to focus down on a single question and stop looking at every interesting idea.
Current thoughts - write a short introductory literature review, do more analysis then more literature review depending on the outcome.
posted by LHL @ 5:48 PM
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Now I can use WebCT as well as Blackboard.
Not only can I use it for creating e-learning course given the right materials but I can also do the behind the scenes stuff of setting up courses and users and all the techie bits.
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Red letter day - job offer from IC now official.
Start end of November.
posted by LHL @ 5:38 PM
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Back from Berlin Wind Turbine noise 2005 conference - very good t was too. Lots of delegates and the hotel put on an excellent event. Friendly staff made the whole thing a pleasure toarrange.
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webbedENVIRONMENTS | Home
Webbed envronments - useful lttle site of author of books on web design etc.
posted by LHL @ 3:09 PM
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It's months since I wrote anything about this research. The truth is I have lost heart and need to find my way again. I lost my job recently and it was all bound up with the research. This makes it harder to keep focussed as I am looking for a new job or at least will be when I come out of the post job blues.
My supervisors have been quite supportive but it dents the self image to be unemployed. In the meantime Iw ill improve my web development skills by working on up to date CSS techniques in a new conference web page for a low frequency noise bash in autumn 2006.
I also need to clear my stuff from the dining room at home - this is where I dumped all the contents of my office expecting to have a new space in a new building in August. Saldly this was not to be the case so now I have to deal with the 3 filing cabinets full of papers and leaflets plus several desk draws worth of assorted paperwork, and a bookcase full of stuff. My dining room already had the bulk of my PhD collected papers in and is now just full of boxes of unsorted extras. mmmmmmmmmmmm. Not an inviting place to work, eat or live any more.
Must be off now and start sorting - I box at a time.
posted by LHL @ 5:26 PM
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Low-Literacy Users (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
Lower-Literacy Users
Summary:
Lower-literacy users exhibit very different reading behaviors than higher-literacy users: they plow text rather than scan it, and they miss page elements due to a narrower field of view.
Really interesting - has know on effects for e-learning
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The reith lecture - check it out
BBC - Radio 4 - Reith Lectures 2005 - The Triumph of Technology
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A useful personal reviewing tool for sharing docuemnts etc.
QuickTopic: free bulletin boards (message boards) and collaborative document review groupware
posted by LHL @ 3:31 PM
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It's ages since I posted anything and then it was random - nothing about my PhD. It has been on the back burner recently, I've been sorting out what is happening to my job. Not good news - decided that I only wanted to do the Ed. Tech support then found out that i would probably need to apply for a new post if and only if one is made available. Shot myself in the foot this time. I probably wont be working after July at all and now I need to sort out if I have taken any leave and if so how much so that I can take it before I go.
Now I am on an e-moderating course, this is the first week of 4. It will give me an insight into what people are doing in other subject areas. Taking a great deal of time as I'm such a slow reader.
posted by LHL @ 2:33 PM
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Changed my background as previous one had annoying images reloading all the time, part of the template. Some bug I guess.
Have done nothing but write literature review for months now but only have 7 pages to show for all the anguish.
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Other interests: link to Noise conference in Berlin 2005. This is a prelimiary page and will be replaced with the main conference page just as soon as I can get it finished.
Wind Turbine Noise Conference 2005
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Concetrate this week on putting together 7 things that are key areas for this work. Do a literature review on the gestures and allied stuff.
Get this done for 14th December for supervisor.
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Quick link to other interests. Initial page for this conference is copy of the printed leaflet. It will soon be replaced by the "proper page" with links to registration, a mailing list and important contacts.
Look at the following and keep up to date:
Wind Turbine Conference 2005
posted by LHL @ 7:48 PM
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Went to an interesting day at the British Library, a Becta one day conference on HCI and accessibility. Several interesting talks, one on IBM's work on voice recognition post Via voice was extremely hopeful altho' I've heard that sort of hope before and it has not always come to fruition.
Another on a product called Quorum - an excellent tool for sharing / group work with graphics tablets and a wall display. Might be good for maths.
May be possible for some joint work. Think of a proposal!
Can be used remotely too. A product called Dasher for predictive typing for those with difficulties using a keyboard. Can go up to 25 words per minute which isnt too bad. Might download and try it.
Finally, early presentation was useful as it had an interesting triangle on it about usability. Talked to the author - very interesting discussion.
posted by LHL @ 5:03 PM
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Lessons for (Pedagogic) Usability of eLearning Systems
from Active Math group a usability study
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Now checking for Usability and Maths elearning stuff.
Must write up Literature review /methadology on Activity Theory too.
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Addwise specializing in information architecture and usability testing - Library
A usability site with elearning emphasis
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Summer 2004 continues with more conferences.
Presented a paper at the MathML and scientific e-content workshop 2004 in Finland - in Kuopio a small town in the Finnish lake district. The workshop showcased the work of people in the Dmath project which follow of from the Xmath project - both EU funded.
Went down quite well. Made useful contacts and found an application for speaking maths: AudioMath.
posted by LHL @ 11:01 AM
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Link to recent MathML workshop in Finland. September 2004
MathML and Scientific e-Contents Workshop 2004
Look at the presentation links and the papers on the Program page.
posted by LHL @ 10:59 AM
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Really Brilliant site about is of video in education Click & Go Video
posted by LHL @ 10:56 AM
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At last a minute to update this again.
ICME-10 was a great success. My paper went down fine. Several people expressed an interest in setting up a SIG of math teaching online and stuff - an superset of what I need really. However, some are going ahead.
Good contact with SUNY and possible collaborative work there. All fine but tiring and time consuming.
Also went to Prague Internoise 2004 and Maastricht LowFrequency 2004 conferences. Next is 2nd European mathML and Scientific e-content workshop in Kupoio in Finland 16h Sept 2004.
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June 30th 2004 - last day of this month and I haven't update this for a whole month.
I have been very busy preparing a paper, poster and presentation for ICME-10 the International Congress on Mathematics Education. In Copenhagen starting 4th July.
It has been a long hard slog and I have definitiely not enjoyed this bit. THe poster is a revision to A0 that now wont fit in the suitcase! if one I did for the internal faculty away day.
The rest is new. Based on preliminary results from the video analysis and my own ideas.
The worst thing is going on my own, no supporters, nobody I know when I get there etc. I dont like travelling alone anyway. I feel quite vunerable.
Lots of paperwork when I get back then a complete rest for a few days.
posted by LHL @ 11:32 AM
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Thursay 29th April - Briston University RCBN course in Video in Teaching and Learning.
Quite a range of presenters, from sociology and other backgrounds including Maths education and visual anthropology.
Learnt something about how others use video but nothing much new about methods of analysis other than it seems a bit haphazard.
Lots of different methodologies used here even cultural historical stuff (Bristol).
posted by LHL @ 4:58 PM
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Spend most of Easter marking except for the few days leave. Did not get on with data analysis at all. Or reading or anything else for that matter. Spent time with family and friends.
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open bracket a href="http:// here">text here to click onyour other info here
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Spent today and yesterday at an Atlas-ti workshop and seminar at CASDAQ centre at Surrey University. Taken by Susanne Friese from Germany. See her QUARC web site.
Brilliant! Discussed use of Atlas with video and other multimedia data. This was really inspirational.
posted by LHL @ 10:53 PM
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Writing papers for ALT-C, ICME-10, and Mathml europe 2004. Also poster for ICME-10
This is amazing but very frightening.
Just need one more to make the magic 4. Should put in a journal item probably.
posted by LHL @ 9:14 AM
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Found loads of stuff on gestures in Psychology from US by Goldin -Meadows over last few weeks.
Also found related work in HCI on gestures fro Toronto by Wu today
Have been writing papers for ICME-10 and ALT-C 2004 and MathML 2004. Hope to get them all in OK.
posted by LHL @ 12:54 PM
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Grounded Theory Institute-The Grounded Theory Methodology of Barney G. Glaser, Ph.D
Interview with Barney Glaser on Grounded theory.
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First day back at work after Xmas break- clearing thru important stuff.
1) Can goto Atlas course on 14th Jan. Send off cheque etc.
2) Reply to MathML Wiki person see link:
3) reply to internal contact re research day at KH
4) reply to NRich sasying thanks and will put something in thesis etc.
5) do something about OU contacts tidy and find in email
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Last day of vacation - B tells me this means working at another place e.g. at home not having a holiday.
Done absolutely nothing since before Crimbo but have been reading and thinking.
I'll be back in the office tomorrow and then maybe I'll be able to concentrate properly. I have loads of marking and still haven't had the scheme. Perhaps it'll be in my pigeon hole?
posted by LHL @ 7:25 PM
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Problems with Atlas software. Wont read my DVD files. serious ! must do my notes in word of notepad and import as a transcript or something, new version might help.
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Ideas Ideas
Notes on..
1) Modelling behaviour - like an apprentice and master - learns by watching and mentally recording so when in that situation can repeat the steps. cf child - parent scenario. Child becomes parent when faced with own child in same set of circumstances. "I sounded just like my father"
posted by LHL @ 2:22 PM
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OK so I've at last finished copying those videos to DVD and now have to use Atlas to watch and analyse them.
posted by LHL @ 6:05 PM
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A4 Paper Format / International Standard Paper Sizes
Useful link about paper sizes - for poster and conference puposes
posted by LHL @ 2:32 PM
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Bought a superior machine to finish the video capture and burn to DVD
Works brilliantly. However, this machine has a duff battery, it shuts down every 10 minutes and needs working on.
posted by LHL @ 7:04 PM
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Spent huge amounts of time trying to get the video material from the summer school onto DVD, had to buy a DVD writer, a couple of USB 2 posts, find and install my peerless 20 GB drive to store stuff temporarily. Still takes hours to render.
Only managed to put 2 properly on to DVD and one as simply files. HOpe the new kit will speed up the process and allow video to DVD direct. It could save weeks.
In a very stressed state about it all as I have not really looked at many hours to transcribe stuff yet.
posted by LHL @ 6:27 PM
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Decided to take stuff off here if it contains names and private stuff. Some people might be ofended if I use names and places.
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Talked to GA about setting goals and agreed to set a month to complete the video analysis.
Work at home when not teaching.
Have been writing up my field notes in laTeX and this is taking age. Also need to do some sketches for these notes.
Looking at putting in an item for a doctoral strand in a conference.
Need to put in something for maths conference. ICME soon.
Found a website called Nrich - maths enrichment for bright school age childern. Looks promising. Can compare with BBC SOS teacher. have made contact and will visit.
Done internal appraisal.
Found site called WIMS which is good maths site.
posted by LHL @ 4:01 PM
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Yesterday - had a long chat about PDA usage and mobile usage for a conference. made a list on machine at work
ALso did more on LaTeX
posted by LHL @ 11:20 AM
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Back to the ofice 1st September! Loads of mail and stuff to deal with.
posted by LHL @ 8:28 AM
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Still working on the LF2004 web site and reading books on how to author a Phd. Very dull stuff but necessary.
Also working on learning LaTeX properly
posted by LHL @ 3:25 PM
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All last week I worked on my consultancy and did nothing at all for the PhD. it was hellosh hot slogging away with a laptop on my knees. The gardwen was too hot, The summer house still smells of varnish and was much too hot, Only cool late at night with a fan running all the time.
Phew what a scorcher, Today hottest day on record ever apparently.
I'm still working at 10:30pm and there is no let up. I will try and set up a BLOG for the conference next year so that our colleagues can use it even if they cannot do any HTML
posted by LHL @ 9:30 PM
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Last week i copied all my mini V tapes to S-VHS
I will now duplicate some to use for looking at again and again and ... to code up.
Need to settle on a coding system I have someting in mind
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I am not planning to come in anymore during August. So much to do at home.
I am doing 2 workshops a week during the next 2 semesters
I have cleared out lots of email as my disc is full
I need to reinstate some of my documents to the network drive now.
Got some library books and took some back (engineering stuff) got paid for that too.
did no research!
posted by LHL @ 3:52 PM
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5263446
downloaded MikTeX and Texnic centre and installed on Sony 2 tooday
Copied videos to s-VHS from mini DV tapes as an archive.
posted by LHL @ 7:47 AM
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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.
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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.
posted by LHL @ 11:09 AM
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Situation model, Text Base and what else? Factors affecting Problem Solving
Interesting item in journal on maths - get full version perhaps.
posted by LHL @ 8:27 AM
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Equipment - probs with Canon - picture breaks up looks like it needs a head clean.
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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.
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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.
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Friday - spent may happy hours labelling the tapes and mini discs ready for the recording sessions. Need some more now.
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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/
posted by LHL @ 3:51 PM
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All geared up to go to Southampton next week. Much planning to do - checklists for equipment etc.
posted by LHL @ 9:05 AM
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Next phase is to consolidate the work on Usability.
Finally to get BBC stuff in some order.
posted by LHL @ 3:30 PM
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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.
posted by LHL @ 3:29 PM
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First posting to new style Blogger
Today - 1st day back after week in Bath with Bryony. and prvious week on the usability course
Worked on clearling email backlog and
looking at Maths Engineering books
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Soton meeting good - Postgrads
Go most people to agree to take part - they haven't signed up yet!!
Go down on the Sunday and stay over to set up early. Monday will be moset useful lectures probably.
Tutorials too. Audio only perhaps.
Get ethics page and form sorted PDQ
posted by LHL @ 5:20 PM
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Soton meeting good - Postgrads
Go most people to agree to take part - they haven't signed up yet!!
Go down on the Sunday and stay over to set up early. Monday will be moset useful lectures probably.
Tutorials too. Audio only perhaps.
Get ethics page and form sorted PDQ
posted by LHL @ 5:20 PM
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Had reply from Alistair E. about York and collaboration
Details of books ordered:
Dialogue and Learning in Mathematics Education
Intention, Reflection, Critique
by
Helle Alr?
Aalborg University, Denmark
Ole Skovsmose
Aalborg University, Denmark
Learning Discourse
Discursive Approaches to Research in Mathematics Education
edited by
Carolyn Kieran
Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Ellice Ann Forman
University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Anna Sfard
The University of Haifa, Israel
Reprinted from EDUCATIONAL STUDIES IN MATHEMATICS, 46:1-3
posted by LHL @ 11:01 AM
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morning blog.
Loads of trivial stuff: email , ordering library books etc.
Good news GA has his post confirmed as continuing. Means I might still be here next year!!
Talked to Maria about students work and plagarism.
Talked to Sarah about "OLAAF" project
Need to get on with proper work! Ethics and descritptive sheet
posted by LHL @ 10:55 AM
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Done nothing to PhD today I must write something about ethics. I emailed a chap Andy S. recommended A.E. at York who is doing something with maths for the blnd. An EU project. LAMBA see today's Guardian for job ad also York's home page Computing dept jobs.
posted by LHL @ 3:15 PM
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Message today - move all files from local disk partitions c and d: to c:xpbackup
HAVE NOT STARTED THIS AS PARTITION TOO SMALL,
MESSAGE FROM IT: Move all stuff from C drive to backup folder and they will deal with the D partition.
Finished marking - endless spreadsheet erors - buts missing etc. finally done and dusted.
posted by LHL @ 3:13 PM
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Yesterday - Monday 9th June. Worked all day very hard! Talked to Sarah and David about the OLAAF project - neither of them went to the meeting. Asked Demetra about the meeting apparently she is now in charge. She said she would let me have the notes of the meeting.
Sorted out venue for summer school preliminary meeting
Found out that usability course is 9-6 every day next week. Need to do something about chiropracter! Notes on BB
Deleted lots of old email
Downloaded the papers for the Usability course next week
posted by LHL @ 10:49 AM
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OK I came in having been marking from 7:30am to 9am. The I couldn't park and had to walk miles.
Lunched with penny - she has done her part of the research - it is now up to me to talk to schools.
Talked to Tom Geake about ethics - he had good info - 1 sheet plus suggestions - see word document.
Spent all day backing up D drive. 5 CD's worth. BORING
emailed Sndy - he is away from middle of next week.
posted by LHL @ 4:38 PM
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bad day - came in for meeting with stuart and it is mext week. Should be marking at home!
Go home and mark!
posted by LHL @ 2:19 PM
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Try to get a second camera and lights and directional mike maybe.
posted by LHL @ 3:52 PM
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Today - Got K. A. to let me into the maths for acousitcs summer school at Southampton. He seemed very positive. I can go to a meeting on 1 3th June to meet them all. Talk to staff and see venue maybe.
Actual summer school is in July 13th - 18th. Brilliant. get cracking with video and audo stuff!
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Oh God I got involved in too many side issues: Computer Aided Assessment, Maths and programming languages. Now I have my appraisal coming up. Scared or what? I dont feel that I have contributed to the group very much.
I did a network group yesterday with Celayne and Paul K and Steve M and Dominic H. This was productive as Celayne talked a bit about her PhD. She did field work in Nepal and talked about the process of being there for months with only an occasional letter from her supervisor. Then making sense of the data as she wrote up. Descriptive and linking ideas came at this stage.
posted by LHL @ 3:49 PM
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Today collected marking and went thru email. Spoke to CPT about paper he emailed n=me about Zack and ? he says he showed it to me before I went away to naples.
posted by LHL @ 12:56 PM
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Did some poking about to find details of author guidelines for Computers and Education so i can submit a paper there.
posted by LHL @ 3:41 PM
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OK so today I talked to Martin C. about doing the Mathtype study
We decided to do a quick and focussed study using Mathtype and 2 other products for comparison. Efofex and say MathCAD.
He suggested we hired a lab at UCL or NPL now called circo usability and paid people. Use screen recordings / talk trus and videoing participants/sessions.
Good idea - sent him my stuff from Trieste and will revisit my paperwork - do this after the naples trip on Thursday.
Should get engineering and maths staff and some school teachers - throw in some industrial users for balance if we can get some retured ones or authors of maths books perhaps.
.
posted by LHL @ 3:40 PM
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MathReader for Windows
Reader for mathematica and publicon for those without the products
posted by LHL @ 10:15 AM
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I found out that ACT-R is a cognitive architecture - and software to help compare data.
see link to ACT-R site
posted by LHL @ 9:49 AM
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Yesterday, Janet told me that there was an eye movement man called Lohse. I tracked down his paper on eye movements and advertising. He was at the university of Pensylvannia Wharton labs but now has moved via Mackinley and co's TomorrowLab somewhere I thnk.
Also got the Larry's Speakeasy book on spoken mathematics. (Blind mathematician)
posted by LHL @ 9:25 AM
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Wrote a long email to PT saying how sorry I was and putting my work into context. Have a record of this too.
Hope he reads it. he might even feel sorry for me and give me some software or money.
posted by LHL @ 3:16 PM
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PhD Diaries on Mathematical Dialogues
jUST TESTING THE bLOG THIS TOOLBAR THINGY
posted by LHL @ 3:13 PM
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http://www.darrouzet-nardi.net/bonnie/TOCHI.html
Call for papers
Special issue of ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction (TOCHI)
On Social Issues
Editors: Matt Jones (University of Waikato), Bonnie Nardi (Agilent Technologies) & Elizabeth Mynatt (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Deadline for submissions: May 31, 2003
posted by LHL @ 3:10 PM
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Use eye movement kit to look at use of equations tools. Proper focused research.
Go home and set up vido camera and try it now.
posted by LHL @ 1:40 PM
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OK so I've now downloaded .2 papers by Dario and visited his web pages. Now to read and comment on them.
I also thanked Dr. K.R. for putting me onto this work whichis indeed useful as Dario researched equations and eye movement. Thank goodness I found something directly relevant.
posted by LHL @ 1:11 PM
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Personal diaryPhoned my mother to wish her happy birthday for yesterday. She went on for half an hour about how wonderful it was to get a bouquet from Francis and how her she only had 2 cards on the day now her friends had died. Also she got cards early and late from others.**********
posted by LHL @ 9:02 AM
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Early in day - 9am already feel better about work:
Had idea about eye movements that I got from book on dyslexia. relate this to equation reading.
Wrote last week to the researcher mentioned in the book -
Had reply from Dr K.R. (the researcher mentioned in Reading,Writing and Dyslexia by Andrew Ellis
He published a paer ifn Psychological Bulletin 1998 and I have now obtained a copy.
posted by LHL @ 8:05 AM
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Today I felt only relief. No Design Science project. No big JISC project. Just the PhD and papers to write.
Concentrate hard now - get data by videoing teachers.
Call up people you know and blag your way into it!
James Denholm-Price contacted me about MSc student who did useful Flash Maths graphics stuff. have put him in contact with Chris. Arrange place for meeting NOW!
posted by LHL @ 4:31 PM
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http://www.pss.st/librarium.shtml
Useful palm software that works with Endnote.
Pay by Paypal - so look up user name!
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Early evening now on Tuesday
am - PDS / C++ workshop studetn asks for reference will come in tomorrow
lunchtime: Blackboard 6 presentation with Graham Alsop - some good new stuff but not enough improvements
Meeting with Steve and Dominic - PhD Network group then went round new building treated like royalty!!.
Did nothing on Phd except network meeting.
Need to chase up Paul T who had not had my email of plan. Urgent now to get Mathtype!!
posted by LHL @ 5:24 PM
Did nothing explicit on PhD but got some details organised - bloody paperwork!!!
posted by LHL @ 3:43 PM
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Now late afternoon.
Done so far:
1) wrote to Paul Topping for copies of Mathtype
2) Mailed the beta testing agreement to Chris Grant at Wolfram waiting for info on Publicon software
3) Did loads of emails
4) Contacted Demetra to say thanks for copy of bid
5) Andy said they didn't get the money for his bid
6) Spoke to Ed Whitehead about Mathtype software for MSC module on usability
7) Put my name down for the above module
8) talked to Andy and lads in office about putting Publicon on machine - get imaged first. Also mathtype in network (Kevin someone and Adam someone).
9) replied to business school studetn Krupa patel about LMS, Gay Caine about maths in schools
10) sent info about research to keith grieves.
11) Said hello to Chris and janet. Saw Marion Webb at lunch in Picton Room
12) Chased up Paolo about marking scheme for PDS assignment 2 - I now have it.
posted by LHL @ 3:41 PM
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Oh yes - I remember - click on settings on the toolbar top left. It is there somewhere!
posted by LHL @ 1:37 PM
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at last - at the bottom of the info about my pages is the bit where you can add links
Go to the page to edit my blog on line and then - well I found ot from there but dont know where to look now again!
posted by LHL @ 1:30 PM
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Spent ages looking for that toobar and editing add in to get this Blog on my laptop too.
Still haven't found it!
Also - spent last 2 weeks on holiday over Easter working in the garden and going to gardens - Wisley and garden centres etc.
Mum stayed and this made it extra tricky as she kept forgetting her special glasses on sunny days.
posted by LHL @ 1:26 PM
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Book from Stuart : TEACHING UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS. Eds Bob Burns, John Appleby, Philip Maher.
Copied some pages - looks useful for projects with Val and Penny.
posted by LHL @ 10:36 AM
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Found this useful item on teaching techniques
Learning Through Writing
A Compendium of Assignments and Techniques
- Dalhousie University -
http://www.dal.ca/%7Eoidt/ltw.html
posted by LHL @ 8:52 AM
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I got the idea to do this BLOG from here:
Learning Circuits -- ASTD's Online Magazine All About E-Learning
posted by LHL @ 10:39 AM
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glish.com : CSS layout techniques : 3 columns, the holy grail
Useful example and tutorials on CSS layout 3 columns
posted by LHL @ 10:13 AM
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Welcome to my PhD diaries started 9th April 2003
This should be a record - if I fill it in - of my work on mathematical dialoges on line.
Today I am filing various papers and reading a book on mathematics and multimedia by 2 US maths teachers - only just started.
I also need to set up some videoing sessions - get in touch with various schools to get permission.
posted by LHL @ 9:22 AM
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Diary of PhD student
working on Mathematical dialogues in e-learning
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Now semi retired freelance author on e-learning systems. Former lecturer in various Computing and Mathematics topics. Particularly programming languages and Ms Office applications including Excel's more technical topics and calculations and its use in academic environments.
