Vania Dimitrova and Lydia Llau from Computer Science here at University of Leeds organised a lunchtime meeting on Friday 18th April with Janet Finlay and colleagues from Leeds Met to talk to each other about our respective projects and scope for linkage across them, and they also brought in colleagues from the CETL Active Learning In Computing and from the School of Music who are interested in bidding to a future JISC e-learning programme. It was one of the most stimulating events I have been to in a long time. We had time and space to really get into and under the skin of each other's projects - so exhilirating to be challenged to push the thinking further by people who understand and support what you are trying to do and to have the chance to really get to grips with their work too. Some very useful ideas about how we might work with each other for the future of the projects and some seeding of new project ideas too.
For me, the things I kept thinking about afterwards were a discussion which we had about how reading practices change in the on-line environment, about the renegotiation - and re-perceoptions - of public and private boundaries in writing blogs and the connections between writing as design and the work on patterns.
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Hi Rebecca
Yes it was an excellent and very useful afternoon. Lots of seed patterns dropping out of the conversation and potential future synergies between projects! We must keep in touch now we have made face to face contact!
Janet