No Overall Control

Well… today was last day of term for two @smiths courses: Beyond All Reason and Culture, Globalisation and Power. I’ve just finished uploading all my Beyond All Reason mindmaps… use with caution…. Click on for some links… ...

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@smiths now has wiki space at a cost of around £2000 for the software licenses (1). Wiki’s, along with blogs, are a prominent feature of the contemporary easy to read, easy to edit web. The term wiki is derived from the Hawaiian word for quick. Wiki’s are websites that are quick and easy to contribute to and to edit. The software purchased, Confluence, is merely an implementation of the wiki idea, corporatised, privatised and packaged up as an ‘enterprise level collaboration tool’....

I should be I should be writing about Appadurai’s theory of globalisation, but I wanted to write about the student staff forum meeting I attended today more… The program monitoring program at goldsmiths has recently changed to a new model. This arrangement uses online tools to compliment the traditional Course Rep role to set an agenda for a number of meetings over the course of the college year between the academic staff and the students. As a Program Monitoring Rep I was at the first of the meetings today. There was an agenda. These are my reflections on that meeting. Disclaimer. I would probably say all of the following again. But that doesn’t make it anything more than my opinion. The official minutes may more accurately reflect actual events. Mileage may vary. Terms and Conditions Apply. Offers not available to those outside the EU. ...

Phew! Completed the text, committed to my repository, created a PDF, printed the output. Attached… Dissertation Research Proposal{#p304} (for those with too much time on their hands.) I should get 5 spare minutes now to make public my repository and publish other essays and notes from previous study years.