Hello Helen, thanks for this excellent weekly summary: it simultaneously tells me about your thinking and your lifestream activity over the last week. At the same time you’ve neatly brought in some of the ideas from the reading which adds a nice critical edge to your work here. Thanks also for the links to different bits of content which really helps the exposition of your ideas.

Something I hadn’t really thought about until now was whether the lifestream summary should also make space to bring in work by other members of the group. Looking at your links to the range of media being used by other members of the EDC class it seems to make sense that, in a course where there is so much interaction across the group within different digital spaces, that the lifestream summary should reflect this from time-to-time.

‘In terms of my play with algorithms, it has been, firstly, lots of fun and provided a new lens through which I observed my own internet use this week. I appear to be ‘rules-orientated’ and found myself feeling slightly transgressive as I explored some of the words on the Google blacklist. Have I subconsciously absorbed an algorithmic blacklist? Or am I attuned to the fact that my interactions are being tracked by algorithms?’

Out of interest, do you think your behaviour has changed since taking the Learning Analytics course? When I think about how my own approach to accessing online content has been affected by shared use of the computer I’m using now (something I know you can relate to), it almost feels like there is a ‘digital literacy’ issue at stake. In the same way that there is a growing interest in encouraging students to take account of the lasting consequences of their digital content, I wonder if there’s also a need for awareness around how their activity in digital spaces can affect their subsequent scholarly work (and beyond)?

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