My computer is full of tools for planning the structure of my academic article. I’ve tried it in different Word modes. I’ve tried it on Powerpoint slides. I’ve (halfheartedly) used some concept mapping software. So why is the current plan currently scribbled on the back of a large envelope?
I contacted someone in Student Services, who was speedily and enthusiastically helpful. She said: ‘I hope the research goes well. In my other role…on the Student Support Review we would be likely to be interested in the outcome of your work.’ Must remember to contact her when I have some results.
My supervisors asked me to note in my blog / journal that I should consider my interview questions carefully as I am carrying out my interviews, and I should remember that I can change the questions to elicit the best possible data.
I deleted some graphically uninteresting presentation pics from my Flickr account last night. I’d blogged them here, and now I see that they are gone. I’d vaguely assumed that they were exported into the blog, but now I see that the blog was picking them up from Flickr. Anyway, that’s why (if anyone’s interested) there are now holes in my blog.
I just logged in to FirstClass to see what was going on and in the vague hope that I would have received a message from my unhelpful gatekeeper. No such luck. However, logging on reminded me that while the gatekeeper claimed to have had no time in the past three months to OK a couple of letters I had written, they had found time to exclude me from a whole series of relevant FirstClass conferences.
It’s bad enough to have a gatekeeper who is wasting hours of my time, disrupting my research and stressing me out. That’s their prerogative. They’re not paid to help me. But being deliberately obstructive? hat sort of educator does that? My opinion of this gatekeeper has fallen very, very low.