What goes into a vita (CV)?

CV needs cover letter, so no “objective” needed.

Name
Contact Info

Employment history

Education
academic credentials, i.e. degrees
dissertation title

Writings/Publications
unpublished if proud of

Presentations
(ed tech are generally not “peer reviewed”)
invited

Grants

Honors and awards

Memberships

Skills (keep it legit, maybe with experience)

Service

Teaching

Leadership Roles

Write first draft of proposal

hook
problem
elaborate and connect

Question for self: Do I write a feasible grant proposal for an available grant? Do I write the ideal proposal for a grant that I’m not ready to ask for? Do I write a proposal for a research study or dissertation (being so new to the program)?

Keep it in your context. Be context-specific–this helps you keep it small.

Q: How personable? How formal does the language have to be? How many quotes?
A: A dissertation proposal, if high-level then a formal voice. If individualistic, then more informal. Justify the voice.

Nari’s methodology section — formal, gets down to the rigor, method laid out. here we are establishing credibility

Interesting question is one thing, but the study has to be feasible.
OER is not free
rove this
:How do institutions reduce the the costs
:

You won’t use every article in lit review
You’ll filter
Floral arrangements

Literature review before a study
Literature review as part of dissertation
To support argument with past research, precendents
Reveal gaps in research that your study will fill
:Show problems in existing research — be critical and show holes
Establish context
osition your work in theoretical universe
Establish your background knowlege, credibility

Exhaust literature yourself, but that’s not what you report (save that for an book-length annotated bibliography)

First question: So what?

Cadence: a direction toward a final chord or goal, inevitibability

Make your lit review coincide with the introduction so that the problem of the intro is the problem (or gap) of the lit review

Instructional Design 101: Scope and Sequence

Monty Python’s Argument sketch

REview of N’s intro document http://njc682.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/new-intro-yet-again/

Brainstorming on development project. Reference to yesterday’s dSchool seminar, where we looked at the need, came up with crazy ideas, regardless of possibility.

Stick to the format. Limitations are good.

Do blogs condition us to say anything, anytime. “Precision is an increasingly lost art. The onus is on you (the author) to do the work, not the reader.”

Best advice on PhD
Control the scope: go away, narrow the scope until its so small until you don’t believe anyone will believe it is significant to the field, then we will cut it in half.

Designing a free, certificate program for Japanese youth.

Listening to Moses and others talk about their projects that are primarily for welfare of others tilts me like a windmill.

“Yeah, right.” One dissertation is going to solve this problem?

Proposals for project

Write an introduction

Assignment: do the most productive thing for you (maybe a 1p funnel, maybe not)

large ship must point small helm into wind to
look smaller than you are
cynical
tactic – one must take the path of least resistance to survive the storm?
eye of the tiger

small helm is the question, succinct and digestable; large ship is the big ideas, the arguments and premises that follow

listening to songs, predicting next note

anxious to go skating despite strained ankle

The research question of your study is the “last note” of your introduction.
Should build, move toward a question inevitably

Little Shop of Horrors works for me because it devours itself, it’s an anti-musical

believable
relevant, important, pertinent
timing, pacing
bait the hook
tension
urgency
dire implication
passion

funnel: start broad, get narrow
(like Dante’s Inferno, it opens to another world on the other side, inverse cone)

Peter and the Wolf
retelling with a heart

what happens during pre-service

teacher quality –> student achievement

Special Ed instruction is poor ?

identifying factors that influence quality in pre-service teacher reading

knowledge skills and dispositions

without research we don’t know what they believe

if we don’t know what they think we don’t know how that affects practice

what are the beliefs?

WHy is it so important that we understand this?

hooks are the fun part, drilling down to the question is cool

we move too easily from liberty to servitude

what strings are attached?!? what consequences of accepting funding/partnership?
hiring requirements, time reporting requirements, etc.

There are different levels of partner

Difference between federal and private funding

Looked at nsf.gov, examined some of the “Education” programs and funded projects.

Facilties and Administration (F&A) and Overhead

“If you get a $100k grant from NSF, about 45% comes off the top and goes to the institution.”

The university will say the federal rate is the default rate.

Hewlett will require only about 10% for F&A

It’s always in the institution’s interest, student hires, advance research.

Question re. copyright
Part of it is institutionally controlled (e.g. significant use of inst. resources)
Can negotiate with sponsor, e.g. to open license products
Technology Commercialization Office?

At BYU:
Write the proposal
Send it to office of research and creative arts (or at UVU grants administrator? who is this?)
ORCA submits it

See <a href="http://opencontent.org/wiki/index.php?title=Grant_Writing_and_Project_Management_2009"class wiki for IP&T-related funding agencies (add some, please). Also grants.gov

weakness
know-it-alls
practice affect

recognizing one’s weakness allows one to improve
humility makes one teachable

it doesn’t matter how many times you’re knocked down, it only matters how many times you get up
get up until it becomes automatic

how do virtual world environments impact learning?

compared to a traditional physical classroom?

speculate:
engaging (this question may not be of interest [it may also be too subjective])
convenient
satisfying

identify legitimate teaching/learning applications for virtual worlds

What is a virtual world
immerssive, 3d, avatar, not bound by physics

f2f,

conventional
classical

good luck defining a typical physical classroom

focus on comparing specific teaching/learning activities

what person to person scenarios ( many to one, many to many, one to one, one to many)?

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if you can travel… is this an argument about efficiency?

improve low-achieving students

art classroom
constraint: blended

campbell and stanley threats to validity
contamination

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media comparison study? how do you prevent this from becoming a media comaprison study?

(is orality vs literacy a media comparsion study?)
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research on design of learning environments
liberty

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affordances of environments

if you itemize and categorize affordances of SL you might speculate new learning activities

how can we leverage and maximize new or different affordances of the virtual world?

beloit college

what assumptions about “millennial learners”

we need to consider the assumptions we make in order to achieve X

sing!?!

“What are you passionate about?”

How to phrase the question

apply passion in the service of others

What is right livelihood?

Not all of us can be so picky about our careers. Those who can, however, should be constantly evaluating the positive impact our efforts may have on others. Those who can’t must focus on the positive impacts their work may have, mindfully support those positive aspects, and create positive impacts in perhaps different ways–whether that’s in making a co-worker smile, making peace where strife exists, or even providing . Work provides at least one chance for positive impacts on people lives: sustaining our families and creating an environment free of need that supports their physical, intellectual, and even spiritual growth.

We should not dismiss the significance of work as a means of supporting our families. If all you do in your life is raise a family well, that is enough.

This line of thinking contributed to my dropping out of grad studies in English Lit. I have sufficient intellect, good health, and enough power over my life’s path that I found cause to worry about the significance of contributions I might be making to the world. There is distinct relative value to becoming a professor of literature, a path through which I may indoctrinate students toward my chosen career and sustain other practitioners in my field. At best, a professor of literature may make some small impact outside of academia, by providing access to the enlightening power of literature to the public. I think Harold Bloom does this well, but few others.

What are you passionate about?

This is a question both facile and incomprehensible. Facile because I could list off any of a number of projects that I’ve been revved up by in the present or recent past. Incomprehnsible because it implies passion for something. In context of the grant writing activities that this course is mapped against, it implies passion for a certain objective that is addressable through a project. Though I am responsible for several right now, I don’t know how much I believe in projects.

I’ve worked just long enough in this field to finally realize, after not getting the hint for many years, that projects come and go and outcomes are unpredictible. Some passions turn out to be mere trends, others turn out to be a lot of trouble for ought or little impact. The most dependable of projects are those that are not projects–at least, not in the sense of termination or deliverables. These are found in the day-to-day, incremental teaching and learning that happens as I help faculty reach more students through distance education.

what great liberty in lonlieness?
amplifying individuals –> tools and communities

Why (research)?
To improve practice
To solve specific problems
Instinct, curiosity – relationship with higher power – awe and wonder connected correlates with humility
To improve theory

Prof in English lit department tried to convince me to stay in English grad studies, justified literary study as godlike-creation of new knowledge, extension of existing knowledge. I didn’t buy it.

“horse race research” — Yanchar says this all the time; a pejorative for comparative or treatment group research. Some valid complaints, but to invalidate a serious practice that arguably can have positive impacts? I need to read up on the debate (if there is one) more…

“designers by assignment” David Merrill (that’s me)

quality of life, security of welfare has increased, our access to leisure is increased. whether or not this is beneficial to spirituality or not.

Dissertation that makes an impact

Project becomes a pilot, small-scale for dissertation
Start small, something to subsist on until the big one comes

ramen profitible – one should not give up the big dreams or be distracted by success “danger of being successful at the wrong thing is you might be locked in for life?”
Degas, “some kinds of success are indistinguishable from panic”

Wiley says “cut the cord”. Reminds me of NYT article, The Advantages of Closing a Few Doors http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/science/26tier.html

Mazlo’s hierarchy

design: purposive choice under constraint

Grant writing and project management

Introductions. Mundane thing about you. Much breakfast talk.
Me: I keep many things in my pockets.
(“What has it got in its pocketssss, precious?” “pen, pencil, phone, mp3 player, keys, coins, note cards, wallet, pencil sharpener, lip balm. Sorry!”)

Grants, research, dissertation. A lot of these guys are ready for dissertation!
Criteria for a successful dissertation
original
contribute knew knowledge to the body, extend conversation
significant (not meaningless)
manageable (scope)

Don’t let service opportunities pass you by.

No one wins a nobel prize for dissertation work.

But how can your dissertation be useful (to others)? How can it be a service to the field?

Small things
We must serve others, no matter how small we are. Some small things confound great things. (examples? Luther? Declaration of Independence?) Jesus worked through small things, i.e. intimate conversations and informal sermons.

develop digital identity
self-form communities
manage information flow

LOok at one of the proposals.