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Poor little blog

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There’s obviously a limit to how much text I can face entering on the Intenet at one time. Since I’m musing on SecondLife over in the schome wiki at the moment, that doesn’t give me much time to look at my blog – or anyone else’s for that matter.

I’m increasingly frustrated at the moment because my mailings to students should go out today, but I STILL haven’t had the OK from the course chair, after a couple of months of asking. It’s not a problem from the point of view of archiving conferences, but if I’m going to do epistolary interviews while the course is in progress, I want to get them well underway before Christmas which means starting on them NOW.

Oh, and whenever I go to the digilab to go on SecondLife, there’s always something wrong with SecondLife or the Internet connection, and so I waste far too much time.

Source of ideas

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heatmaps, originally uploaded by ebbsgrove.

It’s easy to follow up comments in other people’s blogs.
This is a page from the blog of Tony Hirst, who’s a lecturer in the Technology department.
I referred to it on 15 September and again on 9 November
Also discussed it with Steve and various others

Writing up

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Inspired by Anesa’s recent blog posts, I have started to write up my thesis!

Karen did suggest a couple of months ago that I could bank some sections of my PhD which I was feeling confident about. Accordingly, I’ve written 1000 words on the ethics of online research, which wasn’t too complicated, as I drew heavily on last year’s U500 presentation. Then I dragged out my mini-viva presentation to use the section of units of analysis. That needs to be added to – I’ve got a couple of articles that I need to reference. Oh, and I’ve done a piece on episolary interviewing. It needs to be tidied up but most of it is in place.

That’s 3000 words or so – hey, I’ve written 5% of my thesis. How cool is that?

New Group Blog

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We’ve got a new group blog up and running. It should be able to import all our old group blog from Blogger, but that’s proving complicated and it keeps timing out with its connection.

Of course, the minute I can’t post to it I think of all sorts of things to post in it. I’ve just been reading a PhD thesis about writing a PhD thesis and I’m full of thoughts about being a student that should go in the group blog.

Welcome to my new blog!

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Although this is entry number 50, the previous ones have all just been transferred from my previous blog.

Why transfer them? Well, this is an Open University research blog, so it won’t close down if I leave AOL (though presumably it will close down if I leave the OU. However, as it’s now in a more transferable format, I should be able to move it over to another site with fewer problems than making the move from AOL). Also, it should be easier to sign up new readers, including my supervisors. And I like the new category utility, though when you have a lot of categories it becomes a little fiddly to use.

It has been laborious moving all the posts and comments over, but it has given me a chance to read through my research blog carefully and remind myself about the things that were intersting me a few months ago.

http://journals.aol.co.uk/rebeccadan/PhDBlog/