YouTube is the elephant in the room when it comes to video hosting sites on the internet – it’s the one everybody has heard of. I’ve used YouTube for a while though just as a viewer, not as a content creator. I’ve also heard of Vimeo and again been a user but Media Hopper is … Continue reading →

Bonus Thing C asks “Have you or would you now consider creating and sharing any of your own materials as OER?” The answer to this is NO, up to this point I haven’t shared any materials as OER. I also think I’m unlikely to in the future given that I don’t work in a teaching … Continue reading →

I have to admit that Open Educational Resources were a new concept to me – I hadn’t heard of them until I came to Thing 12. This is probably due to the fact that I’m not directly involved in teaching or the production of resources for teaching. Open.Ed was an interesting site to browse – I … Continue reading →

I had intended writing a brief second post about my reflections on copyright and licensing, but as I sat down to write I realised that my thoughts on the subject are all over the place and can’t be concisely put down in a brief post – slightly worrying given that much of my day to day work involves … Continue reading →

Thing 11 instructed us to find two media files that have a Creative Commons licence to use “in a presentation in your field”. Though I’m never called on to give presentations as a general rule, my field is electronic resources – databases, journals and the like – so here are the two media files that … Continue reading →

  On starting out on Thing 10, I had every intention of playing The Wikipedia Adventure and even got as far as creating an account, but I soon realised that to do it justice I would need to spend more time on it than I currently have, and as I’m still running behind schedule with 23 … Continue reading →

I wasn’t aware of Google Hangouts until I came across it through reading about it for Thing 9 of 23 Things. My initial reaction on using it was…..WHY?? On the messaging side of things it reminds me of nothing so much as Facebook Messenger; the functionality and look being very similar. I tried setting up a group … Continue reading →

I’ve been on Facebook for a while though just for personal use, not work. I was aware of Facebook Groups – I have created a closed Group for the members of a Pipe Band I’m involved in running so that we can share information about the band and other things of interest. I’m also a member … Continue reading →

I’m not a prolific user of Twitter though I have 2 accounts, one for work and one personal. I felt that I was being dragged away from work by the constant flow of Tweets coming in on my screen, not all of which were relevant or useful to the work I was doing but which … Continue reading →

Reading through the selected scenarios for thing 6 was a bit of an eye opener – the range of potential problems facing website users is quite diverse, as is the range of potential solutions, some of which are in the control of the user, some in the control of the website provider and some to … Continue reading →

I went to Settings on my phone to have a look at what information some of my installed apps were using – I was pretty shocked with what I found. Some of the permissions that apps have been given To give an example, here is a list of some of the thing that one of … Continue reading 23 Things – Thing 4 Digital Security