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LINK #1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Clarissa and I worked together in a previous course, so I was immediately drawn to her webspace.\u00a0 I loved that she went a different direction on Task #4, and quickly became engrossed in her reflection upon her journalling.\u00a0 I also have included this beautiful photo that she took of her writing as it grabbed my attention immediately.\u00a0 I have a great visual memory and am terrible with names, so I also find that associating imagery with conversations or data always helps me to better store and retrieve data.<\/p>\n

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This is Clarissa’s photo of her writing and below is an excerpt from her reflection that I focused on:<\/p>\n

“I feel time and stamina is the significant difference. I was very aware how quickly my hand started to feel sore from writing. Although, I also I tend to write swiftly and press hard. I think other forms of manual writing, such as calligraphy, contribute to this idea of time and stamina being a factor. However, even if a mechanized form of writing, such as typing, is meant to speed up the process, I think it depends on the person engaging with it. In comparison to my parents; I prefer typing over writing by hand for some tasks, while my mother would almost always prefer writing by hand, then typing it only out of necessity \u2013 clarity, work, etc.”<\/p>\n

– link to her site-<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is my response (connection) that I responded to her with.<\/p>\n

Clarissa! It is so nice to have another class with you.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Your hand writing is beautiful and I love that you have spoken here about the soreness of your hand and the pressure of writing. I am connecting this with how my students feel about a large ink project like a Zentangle verses a detailed drawing project with a lot of pencil shading. I think that the instrument we use, how we hold it and the gestures that we make repetitively must be much of the issue. In sketching and drawing in graphite, my students never complain about hand cramping or soreness. However, with rollerball ink pens, they always do after about a half hour. We end up giving our hands a break, a stretch and a light massage.<\/strong><\/em>
\nOn this note, I think about mom who worked as a typesetter for a newspaper, and then as a secretary and a library technician. With the advent of the computer, she suffered in later years from tendonitis in her wrists. She wore braces and even bought a special keyboard to help. I notice now that I wake up with stiff fingers after working late at night on papers for UBC, but that staying up all night painting in my studio only affects my shoulder and not my fingers.<\/strong><\/em>
\nI wonder, especially with voice to text softwares increasing in popularity, how the future of \u201cwriting\u201d will change to better accommodate or physical needs and limitations?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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LINK #2<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Above is a screen shot I captured from Richard Wong’s site.<\/p>\n

When I came upon this image on Richard Wong’s site, I paused and reread about his experiences.\u00a0 I found that we were like minded in the data we wanted to see, we struggled to find what we wanted and settled on using the same type of data pull and manual counting to get what we wanted.\u00a0 It was frustrating exercise for me initially and I had chalked it up to my not being familiar with analytics and the program.<\/p>\n

I found it helpful to see some similarities between our work and it provided a much-needed confidence boost for me.\u00a0 Here is what I posted back to Richard:<\/p>\n

Like you, Richard, I spent a lot of time trying to create a table with the concrete data that ranked the songs based on choices. I also had to settle on the chart listing curators after each song and count them myself. I got close with a data sort image where the size of the nodes (songs) varied based on their popularity. I found it useful for identifying the most popular songs, but it really wasn\u2019t specific enough for me. It is similar to the first image you posted, but very different as I am in another section of this course so was analyzing a different data set.<\/strong><\/em>Another aspect that I noted was that my class did not entirely eliminate any one song. I had mentally predicted that there would be more overlap in what we REMOVED from the list, as seventeen of the 27 songs had to be pulled. In fact, no song received less than four votes, so it is clear that we all set very different parameters for our choices. Like you, I also wished for this information and I suspect it is the type of data that might be most valuable from a marketing standpoint.<\/strong><\/em>Thank you for this thoughtful posting. I find myself more interested in the analytics after reading about your experiences with other programs.<\/strong><\/em><\/section>\n
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Link to Richard’s Site<\/a><\/p>\n

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LINK #3<\/strong><\/p>\n

To date, this was the most influential of task posting done by another student that I have encountered.\u00a0 I have not yet seen a mark for my Task #9, and am now worried that I have failed miserably at digging deep into analyzing the importance of the data that was not collectable in any meaningful way.\u00a0 I clearly got caught up in manipulating the data, organizing it be visually appealing and too easily dismissed the blaring absence of anything truly personal or meaningful of what can actually be accurately conveyed by such a program.<\/p>\n