Rebecca's Research Blog

The lighting is strange in this lecture theatre. We all sit in dim lighting, which is fair enough so that we can see the screen, but it means that the presenter is ill lit. It privileges the screen over the speaker, which seems the wrong way round to me. Andreia has an activity theory triangle […]

A CAL blog to check out http://speedchange.blogspot.com/ Also, see Gill’s blog in the blog roll. Jin Tan presented a poster on blogging, so I’ll look out for CAL comments on her blog http://jin-thoughts.blogspot.com/

Paper called “Is there no life in Second Life?’ Presented by Moon Eggplant. Paul Hollins – http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/pah1/- asked to give this paper in world, but the CAL conference organisers wouldn’t let him. Wonder why? Describing briefly some work in progress. Refers to Synthetic World (Castranova 1994) and to Metaverse (Stephenson 1992) participation observarion as an […]

Here we are at Anesa’s presentation at CAL, and Gill and I are sitting side by side, blogging her presentation, which is going well. See Gill’s blog here http://conclave.open.ac.uk/acablog/ She’s got her newly revised presentation up on screen, and she’s using the script as discussed at 1am last night! People are paying attention – all […]

https://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/r.m.ferguson/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/gillc.jpg Hey, I’m blogging Gill while she’s giving her talk. It was a tad complicated getting my laptop to take the photo, then getting it cropped and here via iphoto, but it does work. Gill’s talking about ehr data analysis, and she’s got some images up that were taken with the pda. They come up […]

I’ve finished one entire interview! Epistolary interviews do take a long time – this one took three and a half weeks, but there’s lots of very good and thoughtful data coming in, so I’m happy about that. Must sort out my data collection in a bit more detail, though. I have several groups in which […]

Hmm. This bit of code from Flickr doesn’t seem to work in my blog (my attempt with YouTube didn’t work either). However, it does work nicely on my website http://iet.open.ac.uk/pp/r.m.ferguson/index.cfm www.http://www.flickr.com”>www. style=”color:#3993ff”>flickr.com This is a Flickr badge showing public photos from ebbsgrovehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/24707984@N00″>ebbsgrove>. Make your own badge here.http://www.flickr.com/badge.gne”>here.>

Karen Susan Littleton University of York 1991 The representation of depth in children’s drawings   Denise Mary Whitelock Institute of Education 1990 Commonsense understanding of causes of motion

I’ve been off for a week with flu, and I’m really up against the deadlines. So, what do I spend an hour or so doing? Shifting furniture around the office with Gill and Anesa. We’ve now got a very airy office with a large ‘junk’ corner. And my conference paper is still nowhere.