At ECSCW where @laurenscottdev.bsky.social is talking about the role of accidental spreaders of misinformation in offline conversations

Manifesting a first/business class upgrade @british-airways.bsky.social , since my 4yo drew me laying down on my flight to Japan! 🇯🇵✈️😎

Love the detail of the Japanese flag on the airplane tail!

#chi2025

It’s marking season again 😩 trying to avoid using sugar as a reward/motivation, and instead stole this visual timer from my son. Works a charm with him to move on to help him move on to the next activity (usually bedtime!)… and it turns out it works a charm on me too! I’m on a roll!

Merry Christmas! 🎄

Hope your day is filled with pjs, roasties, cosy films, and Lego! Or you know, whatever tickles your fancy 😉

My 4-year-old built this “alien who works at a university”. I’m hoping it’s here to take over my marking!

Overall, some of these numbers surprised me and made me look at the module in a slightly different light. Was it all positive? No, plenty of people didn't engage, but I wanted it to be a positive reflection for those who had been attending and engaging.

I must have repeated this sentence a million times... "you are not the user". Let's see how many WEIRD personas I get this year...

This year the assessment was all about Future of work. Students had to pick one of 4 challenges to design for and research:

1. worker-centred gig economy
2. inclusive work environments for neurodiversity
3. managing work-life balance for working students
4. designing transparent & ethical bossware

Last year the module feedback said my lectures needed to be more engaging. So every week I've included a Mentimeter quizzing them on previous lectures, debating topics, or getting them to reflect on their assumptions:

Shoutout to Simone Strumpf, & Margaret Burnett's (et al.) GenderMag resources!

This student also gave me some really lovely feedback:

"...Following the slides, the points that are made and the general QoL additions that you have put in (one free paper, then going through each and the heaps of additional tips) are truly helpful and quite a breath of fresh air."

Students thought I would have received more emails from them. I don't have data from previous years to compare, but I do think we received more in the past.... maybe my explanations are better now? 😜

No surprises here for week 1 attendance, but week 3 was all about doing literature reviews. I want to give a shout out to Leysia Palen who shared her approach to annotated literature with me last year and students absolutely loved it! Highest reading rates ever!

That's over 54hrs, if you don't want to do the math 😅 You might think a tab was left open, but there were a handful of students with similar numbers and all seemed to have engaged with the content for large amount of time.

That's 36 hours - 1h lecture and 2h workshops a week, for 12 weeks.

While some of my students' Spotify got their wrapped review wrong this year, I reassured them this was accurate 😂