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5 things that have happened since my last blog post…

1 Presentation at the ICEL conference
Great experience, positive feedback, interested/-ing questions from the audience, feeling of doing something with at least a little bit of relevance in research, beautiful city.

2 Nomination of Paper for EJEL Publication
A great side effect of the conference. Some of the papers are going to be published in the Journal, among them also our (David Moore, Janet Finlay, Andrea Gorra, Reinhold Behringer, me) paper about Weblogs in Higher Education – Why Do Students (Not) Blog?

3 Writing up of Chapters
I had started to write up my research in 2008, but 2009 was the year where I seriously started to go through it chapter by chapter. I have collected experience in scientific writing, and in scientifically building up a chapter. Technically I am working with Open Office for text, Zotero for literature management, and (mostly) VUE for designing diagrams. I’ve written before about it.

4 Blogging Activity drastically reduced
A drawback. Through the writing of the chapters, all the “writing energy” is exhausted by that. All the time I have available, I want to put it into the chapters, because:

5 In 2010 I want to finish my dissertation.

January 4th, 2010. von Administrator.
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