How today has gone…
Friday, January 3rd, 2014January is always the busiest month, I think it’s Christmas holidays creeping up – although the switch to 30 credits has already helped a lot with the festive marking bottle neck (that and being able to mark TurnItIn from the iPad)
So, I have actually been research / not teaching related academically productive thanks to my app related regime in the past few months (along side increasingly screwball teaching) I’ve actually done the following:
- Submitted things for FDG2014 (that’s the one on a cruise ship)
- Learnt a lot about the new Horizon 2020 funding (Acronym Central)
- Made some Pacman Christmas tree decorations for the faculty Christmas tree (I think this is my proudest achievement – that and the Ninja Turtle baubles I made for the office)
- Mastered Mail Merge to make badges for Global Game Jam (not yet mastered printing onto badges)
- Thought a little bit too much about Hogwarts House points and Gamification
Today alone I have done the following:
- Set up a Game Jam research group on Mendeley
- Discovered Japan’s Digra chapter have their own publication (but it’s in Japanese, and almost impossible to get hold of)
- Submitted things for CHI2014 (that’s the one in Toronto)
- Had a discussion on twitter about the products of Phd Procrastination, and if anyone had ever done a Phd on Phd Procastination – or would such a meta phd cause the universe to implode
- Written 4 blog posts about things I meant to write blog posts about last semester but was too busy to do so (this has been aided by free Wi-fi in the Hollybush in Seighford while my husband plays the guitar)
And so, with irons in the fire, many of last years modules put to bed and a renewed sense of awesomeness I’ve got some very exciting ideas for 2014. That’s If I survive January with the junior / senior alpha showdowns, The Wild Rumpus, The 4th largest Global Game Jam site in the world, and a swanky Bafta launch party to keep me occupied…