Life After the Last Semester of Coursework in Grad School

WOOOOOOOO-HOOOOOOOOOOO!
*happy dance*

Not so happy dance to the fact that my 1st on my creative work project (Asst. Prof. Paul Catanese) - who I'd be working most closely with - has decided to leave the university. Super bummer for me, but good for him. He's joining the graduate division of Columbia College in Chicago, which sounds like a great fit and I'm sure he'll kick butt there!


On the flip side, my 2nd, Associate Prof. Jane Veeder, who's got tons of experience has agreed to step into the role of 1st. I'm excited and relieved that she's willing to do this, and I know that my CW will be great with her in that role!

So now, I get to go work on my human subjects protocol, approach another professor to see if they'd like to become my new 2nd, and finish planning my wedding!

Yay to summer!!

ITEC830 - San Francisco State University

Tonight was the first meeting of ITEC830 with Dr. Kim Foreman. It sounds like this will be a great class that will better inform my creative work project for the Design and Industry Department.

• ITEC830

I'm also currently enrolled in DAI805 - Graduate Seminar in New Media with Assistant Professor Paul Catanese and even in this first week of classes I can see how it will better inform my learning in the ITEC class.

Curiously, one of the first readings, As We May Think by Vannevar Bush (1945) discusses the creation and indexing of personal data and the need for combining of that data to make a larger accessible knowledge base. This idea is apparently being discussed as a possible theory of learning - connectivism. I will have to go learn more about this proposed theory.