Sep 30, 2004

today was the first full day of our first f2f. it was intense! in the morning, we visited a virtual reality portal at ucla. it was really great! i spoke to the fellow of gave us a demonstration, and he said i can bring my kids there foe a field trip. it looks like there won't be enough time for that this semester, but next semester for sure.

then in the afternoon, dr davis really explained apa style and endnote. it was five hours of non-stop tutoring. it made my head hurt. there is so much to know, and it seems like we have no time to learn it, but i know we really do. tomorrow is story telling day. should be interesting.

Sep 27, 2004

worked very hard over the weekend trying to get ready for the face 2 face. i hit upon the right balance of writing and reading. my presentation topic is coming together well. i believe that i will be ready to present on saturday. i'm anxious to see everybody on wed.

went to see i,robot yesterday. it was ok, although it seems that they sacrificed production values for wiz-bang cgi. story wa skind of weak, too. looked like it was trying to be a cross between blade runner and the terminator. it wasn't.

Sep 23, 2004

got my feet wet in tapped in. i like the fast pace of ti. tonight's ti in paul's (sparks) class might have givn me a couple ideas for dissertation, although it is early. i'll have to read the transcript and see them again. i can "hear" the voices of the folks in the cadre in ti and in ng's. must be a pay off from tech camp!

Sep 13, 2004

first week of class came and went--there are some growing pains, but i think that we're off to a good start.

the ti sessions are wild and wooly, but they go by fast! there seems to be some controversy surrounding how we operate as a cadre (ti manners, downloading and sharing files), but i think that that will also work itself out. i've found the reading so far to be pretty interesting. i really didn't know what to expect from it, so i'm delighted.

i still feel a lost as to what we are supposed to accomplish, but i imagine that it will become clear as the weeks go by. two weeks until our first in-semester face-2-face and there is a schedule for it, although i'm still not clear about when it actually starts. again, a self-fixing problem.