This is a cross-post between WordPress and Medium. What have I done? During 23 Things, I have: Started (another) WordPress blog Set my aims for my own 23 Things Googled myself Reviewed my iPhone’s security settings Made my own Bitmoji character W…
Author: Dom Pates
Thing 22: Fun and Play
This is a cross-post between WordPress and Medium. Late at night, disheveled and rather unshaven, I had a go at a few Dubsmashes. A fun bookend to a quality and serious course – kind of like post-karaoke fun for the selfie generation. Enjoy🙂
Thing 21: Online Games and Learning
This is a cross-post between WordPress and Medium. Kahoot I’d heard of Kahoot before, but had no idea what it was. It turns out to be some sort of learning response system. At City, we use Poll Everywhere as our main audience response system, which I’m rather a fan of. This is quite different from … Continue reading “Thing 21: Online Games and Learning”
Thing 20: Professional Social Networks
This is a cross-post between WordPress and Medium. These last few posts for 23 Things will have to be fairly brief if I am to make it to the finish line in time. Been going in to rather greater detail than I was intending to and have time for – often the way! I joined … Continue reading “Thing 20: Professional Social Networks”
Thing 19: Altmetrics
This is a cross-post between WordPress and Medium. I’ve been writing for more years than I can remember – spanning all sorts of things, from song lyrics and travel writing to technical instructions and book forewords. I’ve yet to complete a full length book, but I did manage to hit a different achievement this year, … Continue reading “Thing 19: Altmetrics”
Thing 18: Augmented and Virtual Reality
Between 1990 and 1992, I took a Media Studies A Level course at a Cardiff tertiary college. I learned about media ownership and news values, the history of radio, how television signals are produced, and got to try my hand at some practical media production too. My final extended essay was on the rise of … Continue reading “Thing 18: Augmented and Virtual Reality”
Thing 17: Geolocation
This is a cross-post between WordPress and Medium. There’s sort of these two polarising perspectives, right? Everything is great. The Internet has created all this freedom and liberty, and everything’s going to be fantastic. Or, everything’s terrible. The Internet has created all these tools for cracking down, and spying, and controlling what we say. The thing is, … Continue reading “Thing 17: Geolocation”
Thing 16: Notes
This is a cross-post between WordPress and Medium. Having come of age with computing at a time when Microsoft were seen as the big monopoly power (eg during the ‘first browser war‘), I have a muscle memory that makes me instinctively retice…
Thing 15: Curation
This is a cross-post between WordPress and Medium. For those that remember it, the social bookmarking site Delicious was a great idea. Take a bunch of URLs like you’d save in your browser, save them online instead, and then share them with others – a means of collectively exploring certain themes across the web. I … Continue reading “Thing 15: Curation”
Thing 14: Audio
This is a cross-post between WordPress and Medium. As a kid, I consistently struggled to commit myself to the rigors of learning a musical instrument. I took piano lessons for a while, and gave them up not long after realising that I couldn’t play like Little Richard straight away. I bought a bass guitar from … Continue reading “Thing 14: Audio”
Thing 13: Video
This is a cross-post between WordPress and Medium. I’m making crawlingly slow progress through 23 Things as I have a) been a bit blindsided by the US election results as well as b) trying to make sure I make the most of this course as an opportunity to properly reflect on the topics raised here. … Continue reading “Thing 13: Video”
Thing 12: Open Educational Resources
This is a cross-post between WordPress and Medium. Open Educational Resources (OERs) are online or digital resources that are available for others to use to support learning. So says the definition on 23 Things. That makes OER interpretable in many different ways, as ‘resources’ are essentially any form of distributed digital media, which become OER as a result of … Continue reading “Thing 12: Open Educational Resources”