9
Apr
Final Review of the Life Stream Blog
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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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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?
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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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1
Mar
MOOC MOOC: Grass-Fed, Free-Range, Wild?: A giraffe and a zebra discuss
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1
Mar
Reflecting on week 7
I seem to have lost a week. I know exactly where it fell apart, and why. Orientation Week in a residential college is brutal. My arguments about time off in lieu, or varied working hours, or flex-time were not successful....
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16
Feb
Reflection of Week 5
What didn’t happen Usually I spend Thursday and Sunday focusing on my studies, but this week work ramped up, so I feel really behind. This post is late, I couldn’t make either of the Hangouts, and the Twitter roundup didn’t happen this week....
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