new year

Today marks the beginning of the academic working year at CQU for 2010. Mind you, since much of the documentation for our first term courses are due this week, I suspect that many folk have been working away on them over the holiday break.

February this year marks forty years since I started teachers college (on my 18th birthday). I left home on that day as I needed to live on the campus of Wagga Teachers College. It's a long time ago but my memories of it, and my first night in Kabi (the residential college) are still very vivid.

I like the way that a new year brings feelings of a fresh start and I certainly have some things that I want to do. First there is the last of the recordings from my seed grant to organise. I hope to do some of that in January. I have sent off an abstract to the ukla conference based on that data so I have my fingers crossed that I will get accepted. That would help to get me focused. I have had a good run out of the recordings and certainly feel that I have used the grant to move my publications and profile forward. One of the interesting tangents has been thinking about how to make use of ethno/ca in order to examine digital online doings. That is still a challenge for me and one which I am addressing in the publications that I produce. For example, in my most recent draft journal article I tried to draw out the situatedness of the children's activity because CA is useful for doing that.

There is certainly plenty to keep me busy in 2010.