I’ve now returned from residential school at Bath (via a long detour to pick Emily up from Exeter) and have just had a look at the timetable for the rest of the course. Two TMAs left to do – one of which is the project report and then the exam. Assuming I get reasonable marks on TMA04 and TMA05 (the project report) I’m going to spend rather more time planning for the exam than I spend on TMA06. This means reading and taking notes on the three chapters in section 5 of the textbook that could be examined (15,16 and . . . → Read More: DD303 – into the final stretch
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Good morning from Bath University - or do I mean Kirke University? There’s been a film crew around all week working on a new Channel 4 comedy that uses the university as a set. Currently outside the library are five enormous letters that look as if they’re stone but are (of course) painted polystyrene. Tomorrow, they’re filming real actors in the Claverton Rooms, which is where we’ve been having breakfast and dinner. Not sure who’s in it, but we’ll get to see whether it’s any good or not early next year apparently. Meanwhile, OU residential school ticks on, with today being number crunching . . . → Read More: DD303 residential school – number crunching day I’m back home, feeling particularly jet-lagged after my trip to Reston VA this week. I put the finishing touches to my TMA04 essay on the plane and I’m just about to submit it, after I’ve read it through one last time. I’m still not totally happy with it, but it’s got to the point where playing with it further will either necessitate a complete rewrite which I don’t have time for or it will simply be a case of trimming or adding the odd word here or there. At 1,495 words (from around 100 or so more than that before . . . → Read More: DD303 residential school here I come! I’m very relieved as I now have a first complete draft of TMA04. Even though the submission date isn’t until 20th July, I have a couple of very busy weeks ahead of me which means that I could do with having it finished properly by the end of tomorrow. Next week I’m off to our US offices in Reston, Virginia; I arrive back on Friday morning at Heathrow (and knowing me, very, very jet lagged); and then have to drive back up to Derby and re-pack for residential school in Bath the following day. So I figure I need to . . . → Read More: DD303 Week 21 – TMA04 I’ve been up since 7.30am with the intention of writing my TMA03 project proposal. First the good news – I’d already decided on the project I wanted to do at residential school (T4 – on the representation of numerical information), done the background reading plus some more besides and had found something interesting to tweak in one of the numerous experiments that have been done in this area over the last 20 years. Now the bad news. My original design was way to complicated to analyse. So I’ve been back to the project booklet to see what hints it gives . . . → Read More: DD303 – Breaking the back of TMA03 As predicted, I’m now struggling to keep up with the course timetable in that this study week really is week 13. I’m about a quarter of the way through chapter 9 on working memory and although it seems to be a little less difficult to understand than chapter 8, it’s still pretty heavy going. The experience of studying these two chapters on memory coupled with the information given to us East Midlanders on Saturday at our day school has also helped me (almost) to make my mind up about my residential school project. It will be one of the ‘thinking’ . . . → Read More: DD303 week 13 – working memory (part 1)  |
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