⚙️ Work
A hectic week - it’s a challenge, keeping so many plates spinning at the same time. I was involved with some learning space design planning for a new building that will start construction soon. It’s great to see what we’ve learned at the TI being applied to new spaces across campus.
🤔 PhD
Some really good discussions with supervisors and other students about revising the plan, and starting prep for candidacy. I’m excited about jumping back in, and hoping I can contribute.
📚 Reading
- Harris, R. (2008). The Happiness Trap. I’m not a fan of self-help books, but this came highly recommended.
- Marc Parry, in The Chronicle. The New PhD
- Walking Eagle News: ‘Giving up’: Woman who’s probably never met Indigenous person won’t support cause after inconvenience
- Murphy-Hill, E., Zimmermann, T., & Nagappan, N. (2014). Cowboys, ankle sprains, and keepers of quality: How is video game development different from software development?. In Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (pp. 1-11). https://dl-acm-org.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/doi/abs/10.1145/2568225.2568226
🧺 Other
- Playing around with Terragen 4 - like Bryce, without the awesome UI. Doesn’t seem to let you paint texture maps to generate terrain, though…
- I’ve had this laptop for a couple of months now, and it’d be really nice if
photolibrarydwould stop sucking up battery and cpu by running in the background constantly. If I kill the process, it gives up for awhile before coming back. And I hope I’m not corrupting any data by killing it as needed… I don’t care if it runs constantly while I’m plugged in, but it can’t be draining 50% of my battery while I’m unplugged.
🗓️ Focus for next week
- Adjudication for the University of Calgary Teaching Awards
- Kickoff meeting for a new webconferencing platform for campus use
- Kickoff meeting for a task force to develop a new degree program
- D2L Fusion conference steering committee
- Learning Technologies Advisory Committee planning session
- Lots of other meetings
- Prepare PhD candidacy plan for discussion with supervisors