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Saffer, 2006

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Orion, 2002

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Azmitia & Crowley, 2001

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Finley & Smith, 1980

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Dodson, Levin, Reynolds, & Souviney, 1999

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Chinn & Malhotra, 2002

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Norris & Phillips, 2003

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Norris, 1985

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Finley, 1982

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Ault, 1998

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Finley & Smith, 1980

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Dissertation writing

Today feels like the first day of writing the dissertation proposal.
Started by rewriting the the research questions. Still not sure whether
the sub questions accurately fall under the main one. Started to build a
lit review, feels contrived but I should be able to cobble something
together, but maybe that's too contrived and not right. Finally built a
data sources table. It was very helpful exercise. I have lots of little
data, and many big questions. I hope I can get this stuff published,
that's the next step in my writing growth.

.net training videos

Watched lessons 4 to 7 yesterday. The stylesheet and masterpage lesson
was boring, I knew that. I loved the data binding, so easy. Its exactly
what I need. Learned a ton about maintaining state across all types of
scenarios, especially handy might be the new profile, postbackurl
features.

AAAS, 1993

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). (1993). Benchmarks for science literacy. New York: Oxford University Press.

Dissertation writing

I feel like I got to within 95% of the final product for the Narst
proposal. I got off the a slow start replying to emails most of the
morning. Mainly drafting a syllabus for fall. I could only get through
rewriting half the paper before I had to eat. Getting started after
lunch again took some time. Tomorrow I'd like to do a final revision
before sending it off to the rest of the team.

.net training videos

I've managed to watch 3 or 4 lessons so far. They are quite good. It's a
lot of review, but that's good because I want to learn the c# syntax. A
few gaps it filled were the logic of the global.asax page. Very easy to
count user sessions. Also validation is super easy. I'm really starting
to enjoy vwd.

Dissertation Meeting

Margret and I discussed my narst proposal, which addresses the first
question of the dissertation proposal. I think I'm starting to fall
behind to meet a September deadline. Key points, I need to limit my
statements that leave me open to argument and interpretation. Or at
least edit those kinds of comments out before review. Limit my methods
to what I will do to support my study, adds to justification. It took
half as long, less formative.

Eisner, 1994

Eisner, E. W. (1994). Cognition and curriculum reconsidered (2nd ed.). New York: Teachers College Press.

Bannan-Ritland, Martinez, Peters, Baek, Qutub, & Xia, 2006

Bannan-Ritland, B., Martinez, P., Peters, E., Baek, J. Y., Qutub, J., & Xia Q. (2006, April). Teachers as collaborators in design-based research: Designing a technology system integrating inquiry-based science and reading comprehension strategies. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.

Alexander, Ishikawa, & Silverstein, 1977

Alexander, C., Ishikawa, S., & Silverstein, M. (with Jacobson, M., Fiksdahl-King, I. & Angel, S.). (1977). A pattern language: Towns, buildings, construction. New York: Oxford University Press.

Server Support Meeting

We discussed Mike's requirements, which are redundancy and failover for
mission critical application. I wonder if he has data on his server
loads? The Thompson server room needs adequate power and ac. They need
to order a firewall. As I intuited Mike is all for sharing resources.
Redundancy is going to be an expensive endeavor.