Archive for February, 2007



Data! I have data!

Published on February 12, 2007

I’ve started my epistolary interviews. I have two tutor groups on which all the students and at least one tutor have agreed to me archiving their FirstClass conference, so I’m now interviewing all members of those groups who agreed to an epistolary interview. I got my first response in less than an hour, and I […]


RSS feeds

Published on February 5, 2007

Just been to http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/rssjnllist.html and I’ve set up RSS feeds for all the jornals I receive Zetoc alerts for. A lot of them have no items in their feed but some (eg JCAL) have a list of all the articles in the current issue and you can click to get authors, and then drill down to […]


Data collection moves forward

Published on February 1, 2007

My grasp of probability is rudimentary (as Anesa knows), but I knew it was going to be tough to get a group of 5-8 students all to consent to have their data archived, when I was contacting 634 students divided into 110 groups. Despite a response rate of about 33% yesterday, I hadn’t managed it […]