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9 Apr

Final Review of the Life Stream Blog

Looking back at over 100 posts, in a variety of formats, here are my thoughts about the the life stream blog. Much of the early stages of the blog, and continuing (though less so) throughout the course, I found were...
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21 Mar

#mscedc Storify week 10

Last weeks Storifys were liked only by a single bot.

Since CAPTCHA was put on the blog, I only had 19 spam comments.

My Storify of tweets in week 10:

https://storify.com/katrinafee/mscedc-week-10

20 Mar

Live blogging the readings: Siemens (2013)

George Siemens, ‘Learning Analytics: The Emergence of a Discipline’ in American Behavioral Scientist 57(10) 1380–1400 DOI: 10.1177/0002764213498851 abs.sagepub.com The view that data and analytics offer a new mode of thinking and a new model of discovery is at least...
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18 Mar

Tweet archive and the Tweetorial

One of the things I found fascinating about the tweet archive is how there was no differentiation between ‘tweeting as normal’ and ‘tweeting to the tweetorial’. In my reflection on week 9, I wrote: I managed a couple of tweets in the tweetorial...
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17 Mar

QuillConnect vs. Twitter Discovery: Duelling algorithms

In my post on the Twitter Discovery timeline, I created a list of things that I thought Twitter might be counting as ‘interest’ catagories. When I read my QuillConnect report, I initially felt it was reductive and not particularly helpful. Sian...
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15 Mar

Playing with algorithms 3: But what about Twitter?

I don’t use Twitter’s Discovery timeline, because although it is ‘curated for you’, I don’t find it curates what I’m looking for. However, it IS using my data, and it is different between my desktop version and the mobile app that I...
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14 Mar

Weeks 8-9 on Twitter

https://storify.com/katrinafee/mscedc-week-8-9

12 Mar

Live Blogging Gillespie (nd)

Gillespie (nd) Gillespie explores in more detail the reason that Knox (2014) is a useful insertion into the field. Algorithms are broadly understood as, and presented as, objective and data driven. However, algorithms are actually crafted by software engineers, and...
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10 Mar

Playing with algorithms 2: Not much help here

I have spent the last 8 years fighting the alogorithms and that makes it hard for me to find a place where my longitudinal choices lead to good recommendations. I only read Facebook via Most Recent stories (though that isn’t...
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