Well, we are almost at midterm of the Fall semester. My dream of having my proposal defended by this point is shot or rather pushed to the end of October. I have made significant progress on my proposal (which is the first three chapters of my dissertation) and I am definitely in line to makeContinue reading “Another semester…another writing group…and the dreaded proposal defense”
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The Joy of a Writing Group
Almost two weeks into my summer writing group, and I am seeing some differences in my motivation. Through the group, we set weekly writing goals and I am keeping up with them. If you get a chance to be in a writing group, I highly recommend it. Though these are strangers really, it is niceContinue reading “The Joy of a Writing Group”
Here we go!
Today is the last day of summer break. And this summer I really did take a break…I only took the required three hours (and that was my writing camp that was only two weeks long). Though I did still work. I worked on my research for my possible dissertation topic, I wrote a couple ofContinue reading “Here we go!”
Diigo & Edcanvas
Diigo is a wonderful site. It is a social bookmarking site, but its more than that. You can also annotate, highlight, and leave post its on the sites you save. I have been using it to organize my sites for the presentations I am working on. Edcanvas is an equally impressive site. With it youContinue reading “Diigo & Edcanvas”
Could time go any faster???
Seriously, Father Time, apply the brakes a little here…please!! I am running through my summer like there is no tomorrow, but oh the stuff I have learned! And oh the stuff I am still learning! I spent the last two weeks in Austin. The first week was mucking around in industrial mineral mines and collectingContinue reading “Could time go any faster???”
CAST
Hello, everyone! I am in Galveston for the Conference for the Andvancement of Science Teaching. I am enjoying the view of the Gulf and learning lots! The keynote speaker tonight was Mike Everhart, a paleontologist who served as science advisor to National Geographic for the IMAX movie Sea Monsters. It was very interesting to listenContinue reading “CAST”
Super Cool Websites
Today during the Collaborative we looked further into the technology that we started working with early last week. As I mentioned before, we were learning how to use Google Earth 5.0 (GE5) with our eTrex Venture HC GPS units to create the field trip videos. Today we discussed some other ways that Google Earth canContinue reading “Super Cool Websites”
O's Bureau of Scientific Investigations 