Time away

I'm not sure why I haven't blogged for so long but I had to really think to put in the correct details to get into the blog just now. and I won't try and catch up here on three months of work but just pick up where I left off.

Last Friday was an exciting day because AERA acceptances came out. This year I put in three proposals. In part, that was to ensure that I got to Denver in 2010, but also I figure that if I"m going to an overseas conference I might as well making the going worthwhile. So, I have had to co-authored papers accepted for the conference. Both of them are on transcription:

Brandenburg, R., & Davidson, C. (accepted). Transcribing the unsaid: Finding silence in a self-study. Proposal for Self-Study SIG. Annual Conference of American Educational REsearch Association, 30 April-4 May 2010, Denver,Colorado.

Davidson, C., & Moore, T. (accepted). How transcription is taken for granted: An analysis of transcription in doctoral theses in education. Qualitative Methods SIG. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, 30 April – 4 May, 2010, Denver, Colarado.

Each of the proposals was around 2,000 words so it is good to get a positive outcome. And two out of three ain't bad.

I've also got two abstracts under consideration for July next year. One is for the CA conference in Mannheim, and the other is for the UKLA one in Winchester. The latter was yesterday's effort. I've proposed a workshop which would make use of some of my digital kidz data. The blurb for the conference said that it shouldn't be too theoretical so I have proposed a workshop that would be driven by two CA-like questions but I did not shape the proposal overall as a CA one. I also plan to write a second abstract for a paper (in keeping with my idea of two for one) but that will be a task for next week.