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DocTom

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Topic: ¡Podtástic! Website
Posted: 26 Nov 2011 at 6:17pm

Originally posted by tpierce220

I may be spending a week in Columbia next summer doing data collection. I'll have to see if that works out.

There is a nice, sort of off beat campground just outside of Columbia (2 hours from us in KC) in Huntsdale, MO, right on the Missouri river called Katfish Katy's. It isn't fancy, it is quirky, and is right on the KATY trail (rails to trails bike and hiking, 250 mile long, 10 yard wide, state park). Last time we were there we were treated to a few hundred Boy Scouts chunkin flaming pumpkins into the river with a catapault, along with a delta blues concert (free) by the river on a Sunday afternoon.

Let us know when you might be around!

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Posted: 27 Nov 2011 at 9:36am

It's going to come down to U of Missouri approving my IRB form to collect data there. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

It will be great to camp with some podders.

Adventures with ¡Podtástic!--Life in a Forest River RPod 182G with Tim and Louis and our two cats, Desi and Lucy. Check our website at http://podtastic.info for information on our journeys.

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Posted: 18 Dec 2011 at 1:28am

Originally posted by tpierce220

Well, after gorging myself on turkey and wine yesterday, I really ought to have been working on my dissertation proposal that is due next week. However, I ended up throwing out the blog and put up a website instead.

tpierce 220,

Life can be too weird! What a coincidence - I successfully defended my dissertation proposal on December 6. That's why I haven't been posting on the forum for the last month - I was buried in the first 3 chapters of my dissertation and getting ready for the proposal defense. I just go word this week that the IRB has approved my application - just waiting for the IRB chair to sign off on it so I can start collecting my data. I won't be collecting it on a camping trip in the Hodge-POD though

So how's your proposal going now? . . . since the turkey, the wine, and the website?

2011 RP 177, the Hodge-PODge
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Posted: 18 Dec 2011 at 8:39am

Diane,

Congrats on your successful defense! My trip to this point of my educational life has been interesting to say the least.

I actually started this degree in Educational Technology Research and Assessment back in 1997. I passed my comprehensive exams back in 2000 and defended a proposal in 2001. I started seeing my ex in 2002 and by 2004 I had to stop because of demands from the ex.

Over the summer I was at a committee meeting for this common reading experience that my boss put me on to see if it was worth implementing across this general education course that I supervise where I ran into someone that I knew from this doctoral program. We began to talk and found out that she stopped some time ago as well but got herself going again. She told me that I should finish it and told me to contact the chair of the department.

I contacted the chair who I knew and encouraged me to reapply. Louis was very supportive of me starting again as well as the department. The problem was my original proposal. It focused on the obsolescence of books and, well, if you look at all the e-readers that are out there, books are becoming obsolescent.

I was told that I needed to retake the proposal class (for now), which meant that I needed to come up with a brand new proposal by the end of the semester as you receive either an A or an F for the course. I did get the proposal done--at least a draft of it--and sent off to my dissertation chair. She loves it...it's a mixed method dissertation on plagiarism where I will interview students at a couple of universities on what motivates them to plagiarize, which I'll test out empirically to find out which motivations cluster together so that a plagiarism instructional module can be created that can be implemented into general education courses. The problem is that since I had to get it done in a semester, with most of the writing done in the second half of the semester, it still needs editing. I need to get that done over break.

Fun stuff that I never though that I would have done 6 months ago, but what's nice is that I can still go out in ¡Podtástic! with my laptop and work outdoors. How great is that? Cool

Tim

Adventures with ¡Podtástic!--Life in a Forest River RPod 182G with Tim and Louis and our two cats, Desi and Lucy. Check our website at http://podtastic.info for information on our journeys.

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Posted: 19 Dec 2011 at 2:48am

Originally posted by tpierce220

Fun stuff that I never though that I would have done 6 months ago, but what's nice is that I can still go out in ¡Podtástic! with my laptop and work outdoors. How great is that? Cool

Tim

Tim,

Nothing could be better than going out in ¡Podtástic! and working outdoors with your laptop - nothing! Kudos to you for going back to finish your doctorate, especially since it involves a lot of extra work - due to your new topic on plagiarism. I like that you are going to take what you find out and apply it to a course module. Speaking of your old topic - the obsolescence of books - gotta love my Kindle for sure!

How did you manage to get your new proposal drafted so fast? I found the review of the literature to be extremely work intensive - it took me weeks and weeks. I thought I would never exhaust all my sources! My study is quantitative - a causal-comparative, ex post facto study using archival data. I'm looking at reading outcomes for students in an early intervention program two years before the implementation of RTI (Response to Intervention) compared to the reading outcomes two years after the implementation of RTI. I "unofficially" have IRB approval but am still waiting for the IRB chair's signature so I can access the data. I really hope I can get the data processing and analysis done in January so I can get the findings written up ASAP. My goal is a June graduation. But right now I'm going to try to relax and enjoy Christmas with my family.

I'll be interested in your progress - if only to commiserate!

Thanks for replying!

Diane

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Posted: 19 Dec 2011 at 12:32pm

Diane,

I think that it was the fear of failure that got me to buckle down to read and write. I'll never forget that first night of class when the professor, who I do know and had classes with in the past--including this proposal class that I had to retake--basically cut me down in front of the rest of the class. I was devastated to hear the way she told the rest of the class that because I was out of the loop for so long that this was a dangerous path for the rest of them to take and that the percentage that actually complete their dissertations and get their degree was low.

At the end of the class she reinforce it by saying something to the effect of, "If you finish this, you will feel good about getting the degree." She emphasized the if in such a way that reinforced what she had said in class.

We were assigned nights that we had to lead the seminar, and I was given the first assigned night where I and another person had to talk about research questions and literature reviews. I survived that evening and at the end of class the professor told me that she knows now that I'll finish. That felt good.

I did a lot of reading and reformulating questions over the next six weeks as I was teaching a 8 week class two nights per week along with a graduate level seminar for my TAs on how to teach, a junior/senior level class business communication class, and a special admissions version of the general education class that i supervise. I was so overwhelmed during that first half that reading, thinking, and spending weekends with ¡Podtástic! were keeping my sanity in check.

After the 8 week class was finished, I went into writing mode. I can write once I have the argument in my head, but I did a lot of revamping along the way. The literature review is the worst, but once I had my dissertation advisor okayed the rough version of Chapter 1, the literature review began to slowly into place.

Together, we'll get through this. Thumbs Up

A friend of mine found this and shared it on her Facebook page. It's so true. http://ceejandem.blogspot.com/2010/02/graduate-school-barbie-tm.html

Definitely, let's keep in the loop about our progress!

Tim

Adventures with ¡Podtástic!--Life in a Forest River RPod 182G with Tim and Louis and our two cats, Desi and Lucy. Check our website at http://podtastic.info for information on our journeys.