Thursday, August 24, 2006
No time to breathe...
Lots of things happen... lots of things to work on... I don't do anything else than work, work, work... but vacation is 'round the corner... I can smell it!
A short update:
What else? Well, in-between there's a week of vacation by the sea, back in Romania.
I can't believe it's still summer there - here we had to give up the sandals and the short sleeves ... and the day is getting shorter every day! Not that I'd complain about - I just read in the local paper that Limerick could become a very popular tourist destination in the context of global warming: we would invite people here to cool down, when Spain and Italy and Greece become too hot!!!
A short update:
- after almost 5 months of field studies at IBM, we're organising an internal workshop this month; actually two, for different target audiences; lots of work involved, but we hope for relevant feedback; in a way, I'm still a novice in doing this kind of field work, but I enjoy it a lot and I become more and more confident every day; today I fell on a paper by Dave Millen on "Rapid Ethnography" - exactly what I needed to read right now!
- this week at UL, we're hosting a PyPy sprint - an excellent occasion to meet interesting people and to observe software development in a less common setting;
- I'm looking forward to the Social Software workshop proposed by the ECKM this year; we were planning it for quite a while, but I wasn't sure it will happen in the end. David Gurteen and myself will be guiding the KM people in the Social Software wonderland - focusing on how KM researchers could benefit of using it. I started a wiki page for the conference participants at wikispaces, let's see what will be the adoption rate;-)
- I still hope I will be able to send my entry for the new book proposed by Knowledgeboard after the Contactivity event in Londonon on time; I have my unconference model in mind, all I have to do is to write it down...
- and let's not speak of deadlines... there are too many coming!
What else? Well, in-between there's a week of vacation by the sea, back in Romania.
I can't believe it's still summer there - here we had to give up the sandals and the short sleeves ... and the day is getting shorter every day! Not that I'd complain about - I just read in the local paper that Limerick could become a very popular tourist destination in the context of global warming: we would invite people here to cool down, when Spain and Italy and Greece become too hot!!!
|| Gabriela 12:54:00 AM
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Friday, August 18, 2006
Interesting job announcement
The Open University is advertising an interesting position:
Research Fellow, Role of Blogs in Learning and Teaching
Two years ago, this would have been my dream job. But not now... Anyone interested?!
Research Fellow, Role of Blogs in Learning and Teaching
The Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Research Group is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to work on an e-learning project in the area of blogs. The project is jointly funded by the Faculty of Maths and Computing and the Virtual Learning Environment programme of the Open University. The research work will be carried out in close collaboration with industrial and academic collaborators.Far from being just a fad, as some people predicted, blogs had become a common presence in our day-to-day lives. Their use in education gains ground, as we see.
Two years ago, this would have been my dream job. But not now... Anyone interested?!
|| Gabriela 6:26:00 PM
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