I am in Toronto, Canada, at the ED-MEDIA 2010 world conference on educational multimedia, hypermedia and telecommunications. Sounds great, doesn’t it? Today, I have attended Jan Herrington’s talk on “Completing your thesis on time: motivation and monitoring”. Since I have to submit the full draft of my thesis at the end of July, I thought maybe this would give me some good ideas.

The speaker gave us some strategies to help us keep on track. Really nothing new for me, but there were some small tips for when you are writing up your thesis that amused me. The only thing you don’t want to experience is the writer’s block syndrome. To avoid this, you write all the way through, and if you think that it isn’t worth anything, you can write in white instead of black. This allows you to still produce something, but you cannot judge yourself, since you cannot see what you are writing. Another solution, maybe a bit less extreme, is that you type everything in a 4pts size, that way, you know something is happening, but you still cannot read what you are writing.

I asked for her slides and if you are interested in other things, such as motivation, time management, writing up, and literature review, I would be more than happy to share them with you, if I can have them.