Comments on: Week 8 Summary http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/gracee/2011/11/12/week-8-summary/ part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:20:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Jeremy Keith Knox http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/gracee/2011/11/12/week-8-summary/#comment-59 Jeremy Keith Knox Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:59:42 +0000 http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/gracee/?p=1820#comment-59 Excellent news on the lifestream Grace! Its looking great, and the tweaking has certainly paid off. I think you would be right to match the content of the lifestream with the weekly topics. So, for example, this week you might want to include your explorations and research into posthumanism. The You Tube and Tumblr additions from last week are fantastic in this respect. As for providing an explanation for including a particular lifestream addition, this would ideally be done in your Weekly Lifestream summary. Remember that 'rather than reflecting directly on the course content, the purpose of these weekly postings is to synthesise and review the content of your lifestream. It is expected that each will contain references to the links, tweets, blog posts and any other content from that week' (from the course handbook). As for more lifestream feeds, as long as you are happy and comfortable with the ones you have, then you should definitely experiment with some others. It sounds like you have just got a few working recently, so make sure they are working as you'd like them to. Vimeo is indeed a good feed for videos, and you might want to also try 'Library Thing' for books. 'And if I had to do a Lifestream again, how differently would I do it?'. Superb question! I would definitely ponder that one, and remember it when your final lifestream summary comes around at the end of week 12... Excellent news on the lifestream Grace! Its looking great, and the tweaking has certainly paid off.

I think you would be right to match the content of the lifestream with the weekly topics. So, for example, this week you might want to include your explorations and research into posthumanism. The You Tube and Tumblr additions from last week are fantastic in this respect. As for providing an explanation for including a particular lifestream addition, this would ideally be done in your Weekly Lifestream summary. Remember that ‘rather than reflecting directly on the course content, the purpose of these weekly postings is to synthesise and review the content of your lifestream. It is expected that each will contain references to the links, tweets, blog posts and any other content from that week’ (from the course handbook).

As for more lifestream feeds, as long as you are happy and comfortable with the ones you have, then you should definitely experiment with some others. It sounds like you have just got a few working recently, so make sure they are working as you’d like them to. Vimeo is indeed a good feed for videos, and you might want to also try ‘Library Thing’ for books.

‘And if I had to do a Lifestream again, how differently would I do it?’. Superb question! I would definitely ponder that one, and remember it when your final lifestream summary comes around at the end of week 12…

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