Reflection: Education for the crisis? Notes from #e4c, 29th March
This blog post has been burning in my head since last week, feeling (rightly so) equally troubled, inspired and generally itchy about the whole subject area so excuse me if I get all ramble-y in places, I’m still working this out in my own head. Last week I was invited along (with around 40 others) to be part of a discussion group that was looking at education for the crisis. There were some people there who are good friends, people who I had never met but been following for twitter (in some cases, for years), some who I had came …
Week 9: I’m not going to class tomorrow, and I’m the teacher…
I’m in Scotland at the moment for other-work-related things. Which means I can’t be in class for teaching commitments tomorrow. But taking a page out of the Jon Hickman school of teaching, I am not going to be around either. Which should be bad, I should arrange something for the 2nd years in the same way I am for the 1st years, who are getting one of those online classroom discussions via our VLE, moodle. All the technological sophistication of a chatroom in the early 1990s. But that’s e-learning for you. But it’s 10.50pm on a Monday night (at the …
Countering the Olympics: Reflections from Saturday’s meeting.
Tweets and media from counter the olympics meet 28th Jan 2011
Twitter Archiving Revisited: Preparing for the demise of Twapperkeeper
Twapperkeeper: Goodbye Tweet Archives? On the week of a supervision meeting that discussed my methods chapter write up and that returns me to my PhD thesis after 6 weeks away from it working on other things, it was drawn to my attention by several people that those twapperkeeper archives (that we couldn’t export and download anymore but could still access) were to be wiped ahead of its Hootsuite integration in Jan 2012. All those tweets, all that research that never was, compulsively collecting every mention of the #worldcup like I was actually going to bother sifting through them all at a …
Occupying the Olympics: What can be done? (From @tentcityuni) #occupy2012
It was timely to hold a session at the Tent City University within the Occupy London camp on the notion of occupying the Olympics a day prior to the Independent reporting that the government are looking to ban demonstrations during the games next year. It emphasised completely what is going to happen, and what will happen, as the government cannot afford to allow for the games to fail (both financially, politically and internationally) – they will move the (*cringe for sports-related metaphor*) goalposts, whatever they are currently, to ensure that when the eye of the (carefully briefed and paying-customers) world’s media is upon …
Media Publication: In support for #nov9 #solidarity (for Guardian Higher Education Network)
Last week Eliza Anyangwe from the Guardian Higher Education network got in touch, asking if I would provide a vox-pop for an article “Professional perspectives on the student protests” (I’m a professional, lol!) – which I am always happy to oblige, especially in support for the recent protest on the 9th and the forthcoming strike action on the 30th of November. For me, as a final year PhD student, and part of the early career researcher community, we need to show a united front and work together to raise awareness in the discrepancies in not only the provision of cheap post-graduate labour, but …
All Videos from Discourses of Dissent (February 16th, 2011)
Discourses of dissent was a afternoon symposium organised by some of the people behind the Campaign for the Public University, and was seen as a response to some of the protests, occupations and debates around the future of the university in its current state. Mark Carrigan (one of the organisers and a PhD student at Warwick) asked if I would help out with capturing of the content from the day and I happily obliged. It also gave me the chance to get some more practice capturing/editing down video from events (which I’ve not really done on an ad - basis, damn formal …