Week 7 - The week off that WASN'T!!

A week off – NOT!

So I have taken a whole week off work as “vacation” time.  But rather than go on vacation I am back at work every day to work on my thesis draft.  I can’t work on it at home – so many distractions with kids and TV and food and all sorts of temptations to do something else.  Here at work I am locked in a room.  I am reading and writing and reading more.  I am getting a lot done!!  I am about 26 pages in now and its really taking shape!!  I am highlighting and documenting a ton. 

I have even started a bit of a “results” graph.  It may make its way into the paper as an appendix.  It’s interesting to read a research paper and document the findings and then document them in a chart. 

I have even made a really COOL venn diagram that represents the findings from a theoretical standpoint – how almost all studies done have used PBL as the foundation for their study/research and also used some other theory to build on it with.  I have attached my Venn in the blog for reference.  It’s likely to change before it gets tossed into the final paper, but it’s cool.  I had never made a Venn diagram before but I figured out how to make one in Excel – hence the grid-like background, LOL.  By the time this paper is over I will be probably way over 8000 words!  Who woulda though that I, James, was capable of this?!? 

I usually take my ball and go home when the going gets tough but I will NOT quit on this one!