Therefore, there are no structured tasks for the next two weeks – rather, this is time to get ideas in place for your final assignment and to get feedback and input from the group in doing so, if it’s useful to you. Blogging about your ideas for the digital essay is a great way to prompt feedback from your peers. Your tutors have been in touch individually about assignment plans, so please continue to use us as sounding boards too, if helpful.

As well as continuing to think about the assignment (due Sunday 8^th January), you’ll need to take a bit of time next week to review and edit your lifestream before 11^th December. The detail of what to do for this is up on the ‘lifestream submission’ page. Please seek clarification on any of this information with your tutor if needs be.

There are still a few ‘posthuman pedagogy’ tasks to come in, so please comment on the ‘all ideas in one place page‘ and we will add them to the list.

It has been a thoroughly enjoyable semester, but it is certainly not over yet! Getting the assignments underway is an exciting time, and I look forward to some stimulating conversations around assessment ideas. So please do share your thoughts with the group!

photo credit: Phil Roeder

This week might be a good opportunity for thinking ahead to your final assignment. As you know, this has to be in digital form, and the topic and some of the assessment criteria are entirely up to you to define. The deadline isn’t until midnight on Sunday the 8th January, but now is a good time to start getting input from Sian, Jen and I, and from the group if that would help you with your emergent ideas.  Post to your blog, or email Sian, Jen or I if you’d rather have a one to one.

Looking forward to more blogging, tweeting and discussion on cyborgs and posthumans! Let boundaries be thoroughly disrupted!

photo credit: Debs (ò‿ó)♪

You should all have had your mid-point formative lifestream feedback by email last week – if you haven’t received yours, or have any questions, let your tutor know.

This is the week to begin work on your micro-ethnography. You should now have decided what to focus on – if you are still in any doubt, please email your tutor. The discussions in the Holyrood Park Hub and Twitter have been fascinating, and it seems that most people are firming up some really interesting ideas. You can continue to use the Holyrood Park Hub discussion board space, Twitter, and your blogs to discuss your plans and emerging issues with each other.

Remember as you proceed that this is a small and low-stakes project – it needs to appear in your lifestream, but it is primarily intended as an opportunity to be creative and to understand in practice some of what is discussed in this block’s readings. It’s also a way for you to provoke more engaging conversations amongst the group, so do feel free to be experimental and questioning in your process and presentation.

Looking forward to all the ethnographies! Have a super week!

photo credit: Henry Swanson 420

This week we turn to two more film festival themes. From today until Wednesday we are looking at films and clips on the theme of ‘other worlds’.  From Thursday til Sunday, the theme is ‘being human’.  Join us on Thursday night at 8pm UK time for a short Synchtube tutorial if you are free – we will watch and discuss ‘World Builder‘ and ‘The Poetic Holodeck‘ together.

As for your lifestreams, once you’re confident that your initial feeds (posts, comments and twitter) are working as they should, try adding a new feed or two this week – Jen’s fantastic screencast will give some guidance, and you might also visit the pages of other course participants to get some ideas. Also, a reminder that you need to write a short lifestream summary in your blog each week – see page 10 of the course handbook for all the details.

Have a great week, everyone.

photo credit: Undertow851
photo credit: Undertow851