March | 2015 | Katherine's EDC blog

22 Mar

On living on the other side of the world: Final reflection

It’s autumn here. Warm during the day, cooler in the evenings. We are just beginning our academic year. We have not yet ‘fallen back’ out of daylight savings time. Scotland is a long way away. To be ‘with’ the...
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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

Week 9 reflection

On Friday, I sent out the first published version of the tutorial timetable, the task that marks the end of the worst part of my job. Every semester, there are three weeks that are absolute hell: O-week to the end...
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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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