So, this is the final entry or wrap up, and focus on the lifestream as an experiential learning activity, it has been an informative, shocking and enlightening around the traces we leave and the notion of being open and having discourse in an open space, where self-censoring felt required around specific themes when on twitter. So, while working in twitter, Openness in this instance did not feel ‘neutral’ and ‘natural’ for me, quite the opposite (Bayne et al., 2019). Nevertheless, we are it feels in the infancy of open education, but the idea that only through certain closings will openings appear is compelling and inspiring.
There can be many applications for this in work practice, towards the latter part of lifestream I had started using Reddit to bring stuff to me, so anything published relating algorithms and education would go in as a draft post when I can then read and publish if appropriate. Which is in contrast to going out and finding stuff, which I was doing initially, this is good practice too, to have a record that can be shared with others as opposed to my current method is, bookmarks that very rarely get viewed again or a note in Evernote that gets lost in the mix of poorly tagged, poorly organised structure.
As each summary has focussed on lifestream entry, I want to highlight one last mashup I created, and I couldn’t find an IFTTT recipe that would do what I needed for this, so I had to use a mix of other tools. I created a mscedc Feedly stream from my peers’ blogs, so I didn’t have to go into each to catch up on what people are writing. I tutor on an online course which has an assessed blog as its primary mode of assessment, so I think I will re-use and suggest the rest of the team try it. I probably could have created something in IFTTT, but it looked like I would have to create 22 individual recipes for each student RSS feed which I didn’t want to do, it possibly could have been done, I could not work it out without a ton of repetition.
So, here’s my recipe.
- Get the RSS feed for individual blogs. All blogs have them – I believe
- Create a combined RSS from all of them; I used RSS Mix
- Take output consolidated RSS and plug into you RSS feeder of choice – mine was Feedly
This collective output could be fed into other tools, excel spreadsheet, ping to your email, although I suspect that could drive you slightly mad if the volume were high, which I suspect on course like this it would.
My final takeaway, “We are the Campus” I guess this stuck with me so much that it is my pinned tweet until something else eclipses it – which may be some time.
References
Bayne, S., Evans, P., Ewins, R., Knox, J., Lamb, J., Macleod, H., Shea, O., Ross, J., Sheail, P., & Sinclair, C. (2019). The Manifesto for Teaching Online Authors (Issue December).