Another pretty exhausting week gone by. At the beginning of the week I was working very hard on the ethnography. Again, my major problems were on the technological stage, I was really dreading this and had all sorts of hickups with converting pictures to slides and compression and all the rest. The thing is that everyone assumes I’m great at technology as I’m doing this course, but in actual fact I still find a lot of things very daunting. So, it’s great feeling now that I managed to get this up and running. I don’t think the lifestream properly portrays the amount of work that was put in this. While the lifestream is a nice tool to get everything together I’m starting to get a bit suspicious about how useful it will be for assessment. It’s very easy to “feed” it with tweets and things from tumblr, but you would have to read it quite carefully to actually find out how meaningful the entries are. A lot of work for the tutors…

Since finishing the ethnography I’m really enjoying reading the work of the others. It’s not only the contents which I find fascinating, but also how people have done this technically – a lot of things to learn from. I really like the peer reviews which is where the people on the course come together more closely and you more of a feeling of a “community” -  (in a nice sense).