January recap

With the end of the month upon me, feeling like I got NOTHING done I thought it would be an interesting exercise to start tallying up some of the things that have kept me busy. I recently got an email saying that my first year progress report is due at the end of February, so I need to be in the habit of making lists to show what I've been up to. Off the top of my head, in the month of January I accomplished the following tasks:

• Marked 25 exams and 25 essays, and a backlog of weekly reading responses.
• Calculated my students grades to date and gave them detailed feedback with suggestions on how to improve their grades.
• Applied to a summer doctoral program.
• Coordinated a four author paper and submitted it in time for SIGGRAPH.
• Submitted three abstracts to various conferences.
• Revised a paper for publication (still needs revisions before it will get out the door though).
• Revised my CV (again).
• Wrote a paper for my doc seminar.

And for coursework I've read:

• Plato. (2006). The republic. (R.E Allen, Trans.). New Haven: Yale University.
• Locke, J. (1996). Some thoughts concerning education: and, Of the conduct of the understanding. Indianapolis: Hacket Publishers. (Original work published in 1693).
• Arendt, Hannah. (2006). Between Past and Future. New York: Penguin.
• Coetzee, J. M. (2001). The Lives of Animals. Princeton University Press.

• Britzman, D. and Pitt, A. (2004). “Pedagogy and clinical knowledge: Some psychoanalytic observations on losing and refinding significance.” JAC, 24:2, 353-372.
• Gilbert, J. (2006). “‘Let us say yes to who or what turns up’: Education as Hospitality.” Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies. 4:1, 25-34.
• Pitt, A. (2010). “On having one’s chance: autonomy as education’s limit.” Educational Theory 60:1 (1-18).
• Zembylas, M.(2009). “Making sense of traumatic events: toward a politics of aporetic mourning in educational theory and pedagogy.” Educational Theory 59, 1 (85-104).
• Felman, S. (1992). “ Education and Crisis, or the vicissitudes of teaching” In S. Felman and Dori Laub. Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis and History. Pp. 1-56. New York: Routledge.

This doesn't include the papers I've been reading as part of my RA work/paper writing.

When I write it all down, it sure doesn't seem like much. Looking at this list, I know I can't afford to take time off to go visit my brother's new baby over reading break. Of course I have the excuse that I sprained my wrist and it has slowed down my typing dramatically. I'm up to typing for about half an hour before it really starts to ache, and I've been giving my phone quite the workout (swype ftw), let's hope that February is an injury free month.