I haven’t written in a while and so I feel the need to write something. I’ve spent a fair amount of time over the course of the past couple of weeks working on family items. I’ve migrated from using LightRoom to Aperture now that I have a new computer that is able to provide the processing power that Aperture requires. Classes start again rather soon, in a week or two.

I’m a little unsettled now as to what direction I’ll head in terms of my dissertation. Some other students, Dr. Ingram, and myself had a real nice and interesting conversation related to the potential use of a “studio model” in an online classroom setting. I dedicated a significant amount of time prior to that meeting looking at how researchers go about organizing their data, and subsequently sifting through that information as they progress through their own idiosyncratic writing process. And long ago (it seems) I began by focusing on cognitive load, motivation, and ways of manufacturing time for teachers and students to meet one-on-one for brief periods of time.

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