@nigelchpainting @c4miller So what fun can we have with it? #mscedc
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) April 7, 2017
Tweet! Just a share
Algorithms everywhere just now #mscedc https://t.co/Hzci9YV6CB
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) April 6, 2017
Just sharing interesting articles for my classmates.
Tweet! Even my filming gigs are about algorithms
can't believe the lecture I'm recording right now is about the use of algorithms in digital media #mscedc
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) April 6, 2017
I was filming a lecture today for the Digital Playgrounds course at ECA and would you believe it but the relevance fairies have been at it again, the lecture was about some visual works that were created using algorithms to show climate change in various outputs.
Was a great lecture, really enjoyable and again, great to see algorithms in a different light, something a mile away from learning analytics.
Tweet! Meeting in person
@philip_downey #mscedc always good to catch up with classmates and get that peer support in.
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) April 6, 2017
Although we chat on the blog and twitter, this was the first time we got the chance to chat in person (virtually anyway).
Tweet! It’s happening
skype chSKYPE CHAT ON ASSIGNMENTS about to start. If you are participating, send me your details #mscedc
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) April 5, 2017
Social situations or the support of peers has always been an important part of the learning process for me, it worked so well with IDEL that I wanted to give people to chance to participate in something similar. I’m not sure if everyone will find it useful, but I certainly have.
Tweet! Let the games begin – and may the odds always be in your favour.
If you fancy a skype chat about assignments 7pm UK time tomorrow – email (s1646875) me your skype ID if you fancy it.#mscedc
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) April 4, 2017
Tweet! Twitter bomb, light the tape and run
#mscedc
"lectures are like relying on medieval medicine while boxes of antibiotics abound. The pedagogical equivalent of bloodletting,” https://t.co/tQGSsbzRZI— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 31, 2017
Twitter had been a bit quiet this week, so knowing some of my classmates, I threw a tweet bomb and ran 🙂
It didn’t wake twitter up quite as much as I had thought it would, but then I forget that we all work in different areas and so this maybe wasn’t as relevant to everyone as I had originally thought.
Always a fun topic though and one I enjoy the debate on. Do UG students get the best out of lectures? Or is it time for a change in our educational practises?
Tweet! Social spaces for learning
Anyone fancy resurrecting our skype chats and having a chat about final assignments?#mscedc
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 31, 2017
Tweet! Feminist perspective on sci-fi fiction
#mscedc https://t.co/szVHGWayDm
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 30, 2017
Interesting article about the feminist perspective of sci-fi fiction shared by a colleague from New College which reminded me of Harraway’s (2007) approach to highlighting the need for a feminist perspective to a field which is dominated by research and writing by men.
Harraway (2007) took a really interesting approach to using the cyborg as a metaphor for bridging gaps and ignoring boundaries, not male or female but evolved and with reduced biology allowing the possibility of eliminating male versus female. This is quite different from other feminist perspectives which accentuate the need for a balance of male and female views in research and academic writing as either will see things differently and be influenced by society differently. The perspective of a woman on sci-fi versus a man’s view on sci-fi was the main idea behind this article.
References
Hawaray, D. (2007) ‘A cyborg manifesto: Science, technology and social feminist in the late twentieth century’, BELL, D; KENNEDY, B (eds). The Cybercultures reader. London: Routledge, pp. 34-65.
Tweet! Cyberpunks are cool
Oh no, why did start reading block 1 readings again, so many cool ideas I'd forgotten about.#mscedc
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) March 29, 2017
The problem with changing topics over the course of the, well, course, is that you forget things. I went back to look over my blog and some of the readings and now I’m remembering some of the really interesting stuff I’d forgotten, like cyberpunks.Oh no, now I’m rethinking assignment topics, I don’t have time…..