tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4906615674558678352024-03-13T00:19:23.912-06:00Klipper TillDavid Gerritsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465774631656713427noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-490661567455867835.post-17135056126681620872018-08-06T06:15:00.005-06:002018-08-06T06:15:37.891-06:00Defense dayOh boy. Here we go.
The document got a lot of attention since my last post. It's still not done, but it's done enough for the defense. And I'm starting that in 75 minutes.
Fingers crossed.David Gerritsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465774631656713427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-490661567455867835.post-66348052288809578522018-07-22T15:25:00.000-06:002018-07-22T15:25:12.274-06:00Day 17: Barreling toward the finshThe mission today was Chapter 6. I took the chapter from 5552 words up to 6868. But that obfuscates the rewriting I did all along the way. It was much more work than 1316 new words over 4 hours. (Although that is a fairly typical writing pace for me, now that I think about it.)
This chapter had a lot of previous writing done already. In fact, it's the only study in this arc that has actually David Gerritsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465774631656713427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-490661567455867835.post-9259673649692679682018-07-21T16:45:00.002-06:002018-07-21T16:45:57.793-06:00Day "16" ...We're back.It's been a big month and a half since my last post. Yes I did stop writing. I had planned to spend 4 days looking at data and then getting back to writing. It turned out I needed 3 weeks to do the data, and then I got busy having a baby. Things been nuts.
But today I'm back at it and killing it. Between outlining findings for Chapter 7 and drafting Chapter 4 I put down a record 5376 words David Gerritsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465774631656713427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-490661567455867835.post-26262633463321462972018-06-10T16:47:00.000-06:002018-06-10T16:47:10.238-06:00Day 15: One-third completePretty good progress for one day of work today. I drafted Chapter 3, titled "Study 1: Field observations and problem identification ." I managed 3724 words. I have some worry that it's going to take significant re-write. This is the oldest study in the book, conducted in the fall of 2014. I've written this work more than any other. I ended up free-styling the first half of the chapter beforeDavid Gerritsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465774631656713427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-490661567455867835.post-71814493413440356772018-06-09T16:33:00.000-06:002018-06-09T16:33:15.778-06:00Days 13 and 14: Things are blurring nowOn paper, what I've done over the past two days seems straight forward. Yesterday I outline my new study for 622 words, and today I added 395 more. That part is going slow because it requires a lot of spot analysis of data. Also today I produced 1915 words drafting Chapter 6, which is the study from last year. It is also the study that was accepted to the ICLS/AIED crossover conference coming up David Gerritsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465774631656713427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-490661567455867835.post-11843437577567325442018-06-07T13:45:00.001-06:002018-06-07T13:45:35.163-06:00Days 11 and 12: A framework roughedIt's been a busy week with lots of things cropping up and interrupting the writing process. But in the three "days" worth of writing I managed to complete over the past 5 days, I put down 2834 words and finally finished the framework chapter. Here's a picture of what it looks like.It took nearly 6000 words to explain. And I'm not actually sure that will be enough.But at any rate, that diagram is David Gerritsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465774631656713427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-490661567455867835.post-39836033830385207262018-06-01T16:10:00.003-06:002018-06-01T16:10:56.534-06:00Day 10: Slogging through the frameworkSo 1362 new words on Chapter 5 today, but far, far below the goal of wrapping this chapter and moving on to outline the next. After resetting my plan only 2 days ago, I did not expect to hit a snag of this size quite so soon. I think I got through the troubling part of the chapter today, but I'm anxious about when I'll come back to it and whether I'll hit similar challenges going forward.
David Gerritsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465774631656713427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-490661567455867835.post-91259176451053335582018-05-31T14:44:00.000-06:002018-05-31T14:44:26.228-06:00Day 9: Return of the ThesisSome pretty fantastic results today. My goals were to outline Chapter 6 and start drafting Chapter 5. The new word count = 4592 for the outline, and 1684 for Chapter 5. (There was a massive amount of copy-pasta for the outline. There's no way I could ever write that many words in the two hours it took me to put that one together. Or in a day. Or three days.)
Attentive readers will note thatDavid Gerritsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465774631656713427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-490661567455867835.post-36201034069299431582018-05-28T15:55:00.003-06:002018-05-28T15:55:51.531-06:00Day 8: The Outline Strikes BackI want to complain today. I really do, because nothing went as planned. BUT, I can't complain. I went back to Chapter 5 today (where I explain my system and theory), and I had thought I would be able to turn the outline into prose. I decided that first I would just do a little tweak to the outline. Nothing big.
3 hours later, there was still no prose, but the outline had gone from confusing and David Gerritsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465774631656713427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-490661567455867835.post-42747316097169504202018-05-27T14:14:00.001-06:002018-05-27T14:14:16.906-06:00Day 7: No restIt took five hours more than I had planned on, but I finally finished drafting the related works section. Chapter 2 is officially v.01 complete. I cranked out 1971 words today. Way above my average daily output. And I am so happy to report that I owe it to my good friends Jim & Iris.
Some background here. Iris is a former HCII grad like what I'm fixing to become. Now she's a fancy David Gerritsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465774631656713427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-490661567455867835.post-10148772827187285792018-05-26T19:35:00.001-06:002018-05-26T19:35:45.606-06:00Day 6: Personal Informatics and Smart Classrooms1062 very challenging words today. I spent about 2/3 of them writing about personal informatics. I was surprised when I went back to the proposal to compare. In that document I spent about half a paragraph talking about it. Not enough. But now I wonder if I wrote too much. A lot of it feels week and rambling, too.
I'm not thrilled with the smart classrooms section, either. It doesn't feel David Gerritsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465774631656713427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-490661567455867835.post-43950223842363811512018-05-25T14:05:00.002-06:002018-05-25T14:05:37.744-06:00Day 5: Piling it higher and deeperI really should have waited longer before using up that joke.
Chapter 2 continues on with 1050 sparkling new words. I didn't get quite as far as I did yesterday because I spent a bit of time digging around in Scholar. I wanted to find out if anyone had already built what I call a "socio-technical training system," and wouldn't you know there's a whole lit review just waiting to be written. Now, David Gerritsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465774631656713427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-490661567455867835.post-55981938447667477482018-05-24T12:35:00.002-06:002018-05-24T12:35:11.941-06:00Day 4: It's getting theory in hereAfter 3 hours and 1440 words, I have finished drafting part of the related work section. The first part. Out of six distinct sections.
Fortunately, I don't think the rest will be as hard. This section had to introduce professional development for teachers, active learning, feedback, reflection, and self-efficacy.
Crap. I forgot about discursive teaching. It needs that, too. Okay, so I haven't David Gerritsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465774631656713427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-490661567455867835.post-39797093652257189602018-05-23T08:13:00.002-06:002018-05-23T08:14:24.654-06:00Day 3: Chapter 5 gets outlinedThe goal today was to take this model of how teachers learn to teach:
Clark and Hollingsworth's (2002) Interconnected Model of Professional Growth (IMPG)
And manhandle it until it conformed to this model of how I build technology-enhanced training systems:
Gerritsen, Zimmerman, & Ogan (in press) Planning/Action/Reflection model
It's not impossible, but it's not easy. The point I want toDavid Gerritsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465774631656713427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-490661567455867835.post-31567683379505198372018-05-22T09:19:00.000-06:002018-05-22T09:19:06.908-06:00Day 2 of dissertation writingSince the post yesterday, I had a change in schedule come up and had to change a few things. My plan was to spend 6 hours writing today, but I had to move half of it to Thursday. (I am joining Marsha Lovett on a talk about this work coming up on Wednesday, and got a chance to collaborate with her this afternoon.)
The draft of Ch1 is done. Rough Introduction in the can. It took 834 words, so my David Gerritsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465774631656713427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-490661567455867835.post-83660396240789235642018-05-21T09:24:00.001-06:002018-05-21T09:24:21.519-06:00Dissertation writing officially under wayAs of today, five weeks later than I had planned, I have begun writing my PhD thesis. On the upside, I at least prepared over the past few months by outlining most of the chapters and building a daily writing plan. Now it begins.
My goal today was to write for 3 hours. I produced 1291 words drafting the first chapter. I probably have about 900 more to go before my first draft of Ch1 is done. I David Gerritsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465774631656713427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-490661567455867835.post-9050492967307319082015-08-11T08:56:00.002-06:002015-08-11T09:00:47.228-06:00The Reader of Games Books
Now reading Iain Banks' The Player of Games. It's from the Culture series, but fitting after finishing Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Here's why.
At only 50 pages, the setting for Banks' book includes a massive space habitat (e.g.) in a highly advanced society where people are so wealthy that no one ever has to labor, there is no crime, and society completely surrounds itself in games. David Gerritsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465774631656713427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-490661567455867835.post-69947066757610040522012-06-09T00:57:00.003-06:002012-06-09T11:25:57.362-06:00The Book of Pittsburgh 1:1-6
Wyoming? Wynot?
Whereas cuticles are criminally abused, the car is furious packed and repacked, and coffee mugs are topped, we hereby move to Pittsburgh.
Tonight we are stopped in Cheyenne, because
we see absolutely no sense in speeding across the country. That means that a short 7 hours got us from
our doorstep in Utah to the I-80 Holiday Inn* in lower David Gerritsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465774631656713427noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-490661567455867835.post-52042578877074634522011-09-30T19:35:00.000-06:002011-09-30T19:35:11.733-06:00Intuition is fed by data.This post is for my friend Rees, who's FB wall was beginning to burst with our comments. I've moved the conversation here to save his friends from the excessive verbiage.
In order to save the poor people who originally made comments on that post, I'll respond here.
I think there are two side to the question of how intuition is fed by data. The side which you're focusing on deals with David Gerritsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465774631656713427noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-490661567455867835.post-42097829102718680292011-03-02T03:38:00.000-07:002011-03-02T03:38:22.255-07:00Spatial-only map to the U
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This is a no-word map from the... well, I've said too much already. To advance the presentation, push the big arrow button on the bottom.David Gerritsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465774631656713427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-490661567455867835.post-22299253954571297462010-07-31T15:32:00.002-06:002010-07-31T15:38:30.838-06:00Arts and Crafts, and a French Guy
Art is the ingenuity of the message, and craft is the clarity of its expression. I've always tried to be more of an artist than a craftsman. The reason is simple. I'm lazy. Rather than admit that, though, what I'm more likely to preach at you is that art, or rather, Art, "should not be corrupted by technical details. Purity and honesty of vision is above parameters." Honestly, though, I'm full David Gerritsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465774631656713427noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-490661567455867835.post-74203470088290417812010-07-14T16:21:00.002-06:002010-07-14T16:23:06.945-06:00Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood
I have a queer fascination with Ridley Scott, and I was quietly pleased to find out I would be required to see this movie. I can never entirely dismiss the man who made Blade Runner, not that he's ever done anything nearly as fascinating since then. Most of the credit for that one probably went to the screenwriters and Rutger Hauer. But even still, Scott is the one who brought it together, and David Gerritsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465774631656713427noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-490661567455867835.post-45141274539575043322010-07-07T13:34:00.000-06:002010-07-07T13:34:33.714-06:00Jesus Camp
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Flipping through Newseum.com, I see that Canadian headlines are screaming, “Thugs!” and, “Anarchy!” Understandably, one cop car appears to have burned. It’s ghastly, indeed. No one likes seeing that. Or at least, no one admits it. But if a car burns and no one is hurt by it, is it really such a story? Why do no headlines pronounce, “Police Brutality!”?
Peaceful protesters at the G-20 in TorontoDavid Gerritsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465774631656713427noreply@blogger.com0