Location: Room 205, 5 University Gardens
Attending: Elina, Stuart, Mo, Pernille, Victoria, Steve, Emma, Rohan, Swagatam
Apologies: Maribel, Martin
- Mo ran a workshop on using Python to crawl and parse the internet for content.
- The workshop covered the basics of Python, and how to troubleshoot common problems
- Instructions for how to install Python prior to the workshop were posted on the site
- The code used in the workshop is available on the XPMGla Github page, in the ‘crawl-parse’ repo: https://github.com/xpmgla/crawl-parse
- The team is encouraged to fork the code and make their own changes
- Elina will upload version of the script that can be used on a Mac
- At the next meeting, Victoria will present the paper she is giving at the 9th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference in Glasgow on using social media (Twitter, specifically) in education: http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/learningteaching/events/annuallearningandteachingconference/ Abstract: http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_442521_en.pdf