Winter has returned to Montreal, if only for a few days. So back indoors it is. Here’s the news: I’ve transferred into the PhD program in Ed Tech at Concordia University in Montreal, QC. So it looks like Tasha and I are going to be here for a little while longer.
Tasha and I have some wonderful news – we’re expecting in June. Actually, Tasha’s expecting. I’m just doing whatever I can to help out. It always seemed funny to me when husbands say “we’re pregnant”. As I’ve been reminded several times, we men really don’t know the first thing about being pregnant.
Anyway, family plans top our priority lists.
As far a studies go – I’m pursuing research in a number of fields: digital libraries and cultural preservation, narrative case-based reasoning and digital libraries, one-to-one computing and student achievement, distance education methodologies, pedagogy of technology implementations, learning design, learning object repositories and reuse, teacher evaluation.
That’s quite the list when I actually write it all out. My main focus right now is the digital library studies – I will probably build my dissertation around the use of digital libraries in the preservation of culture. I’m working on a presentation on the topic, you can preview it here (it’s an online slide show using s5 technology – navigate by moving your pointer to the bottom right corner, then you’ll see the list of slides and the navigation buttons). Feel free to comment and make suggestions.
Cheers!
