Author: Elaine Harrington

Thing 2: Hello Blogging, Old Friend

I love Thing 1 & 2! Hello Blogging, old friend – it’s nice to see you again!

The first thing I do when I start a 23 Things programme is to check all my settings on Blogger and see what needs updating. Once I’ve that done, that’s when I register my blog.

I also find it handy to check the settings on the work blog I contribute to: The River-side, to see what’s missing or what can be adjusted.

So a bit more about why I’ve been busy over the last few weeks and not blogging as I ought to have been. Firstly it’s a new semester at work (I work as Special Collections Librarian in UCC Library) and we’ve been doing introductory workshops, launching a new website, transferring content from the previous website for Special Collections and Special Collections’ Subject Support (check out the Wayback Machine to see what we looked like this time last year!), creating a new Special Collections’ guide for Outreach & Engagement, groups coming to Special Collections to see what sources we have that are useful for their modules, presenting at TEL week in UCC, presenting at the Digital Humanities Colloquium and preparing presentations for HEAnet 2017 and CONUL Teaching & Learning in November. The upshot of this is at the end of the day the last thing I really want to do is stare at a computer and do more work even though I really enjoy doing CPD activities.

Now that we’re heading into Halloween a reasonable number of the classes that come to Special Collections have come & gone, I’m halfway through the number of formal presentations I willingly signed up to do (!) and I can re-advertise the Harry Potter guide I created last year. Already the word is out – Martin’s fabulous Harry Potter signs in the library always help.

Credit: Soto, Domingo de. Commentariorum fratris Dominici Soto Segoviensis, theologi, Ordinis Praedicatorum, Caesareae Maiestati à sacris confessionibus, publici apud Salmanticenses professoris, in Quartum Sententiarum. Salmanticae [Salamanca]: Apud Ioannem Mariam à Terranoua, expensis Benedicti Boyerii bibliopolae, 1566-1569.

 So like the phoenix rising from the ashes it’s back to blogging!

Thing 2: Hello Blogging, Old Friend

Thing 4: Digital Security

Facebook Recently we had two visiting librarians from Malta at work. When it came time for them to leave one suggested adding me as a friend on Facebook. The other said she didn’t really use Facebook but she checked in every now and again. However when…

Thing 4: Digital Security

Thing 4: Digital Security

Facebook Recently we had two visiting librarians from Malta at work. When it came time for them to leave one suggested adding me as a friend on Facebook. The other said she didn’t really use Facebook but she checked in every now and again. However when…

Thing 4: Digital Security

Digital Knowledge: Thing 2 – Blogging

Onto Thing 2! Oh the joy of MOOCs at the start!

I don’t have access to Lynda.com but this is the second time in a week that I’ve heard about it. I must pass it onto our team for continuing personal and professional development (CPPD).

I hope to brush up on existing skills and learn some new ones which I may use personally or use immediately in a work context or ponder for a while so that I can use it in a year’s time in a work context.

Thing 2: Blogging 
I like blogging and have a few different blogs on the go although I’m better at contributing to The River-side, my work blog, than I am to any of the three personal ones I have! Oops!

I’ve blogged about:
What I’ve seen or done is a way of incorporating reflective practice into my professional life https://thoughtswalkerabroad.wordpress.com/ 

Events in order to help me remember them more clearly in the future

I also blog as a way to test out different apps and I give myself 30 days to try the app! http://cloudwalkerabroad.tumblr.com/

Blogging Platforms 
I’ve had this blog on Blogger for quite a while but I use Wordpress at work and the Tumblr guide would have been very handy when I started that blog!

I knew I’d heard of PebblePad before but couldn’t remember when. A search for UCC and PebblePad on what but Google brought me to a news item for its use with the School of Pharmacy. Last year one of my group had described its use on an online forum for the course on teaching & learning in higher education.

Some browsing on the pages for it on the University of Edinburgh website made me wonder how it could be adapted for modules that use Special Collections or for staff as a way to track their own courses. Hmm!
“Use PebblePad in facilitated teaching, learning, and personal development contexts. As the facilitator, you can create custom resources for learners to use and submit for your feedback. You can promote continual engagement from learners by releasing new content at set times – and learners’ additions and changes will filter through to you until the date and time you choose.”

Plenty of things to consider for how it may be used!

One more thing to go back to the CPPD team!

Digital Knowledge: Thing 2 – Blogging

Digital Knowledge: Thing 2 – Blogging

Onto Thing 2! Oh the joy of MOOCs at the start!

I don’t have access to Lynda.com but this is the second time in a week that I’ve heard about it. I must pass it onto our team for continuing personal and professional development (CPPD).

I hope to brush up on existing skills and learn some new ones which I may use personally or use immediately in a work context or ponder for a while so that I can use it in a year’s time in a work context.

Thing 2: Blogging 
I like blogging and have a few different blogs on the go although I’m better at contributing to The River-side, my work blog, than I am to any of the three personal ones I have! Oops!

I’ve blogged about:
What I’ve seen or done is a way of incorporating reflective practice into my professional life https://thoughtswalkerabroad.wordpress.com/ 

Events in order to help me remember them more clearly in the future

I also blog as a way to test out different apps and I give myself 30 days to try the app! http://cloudwalkerabroad.tumblr.com/

Blogging Platforms 
I’ve had this blog on Blogger for quite a while but I use Wordpress at work and the Tumblr guide would have been very handy when I started that blog!

I knew I’d heard of PebblePad before but couldn’t remember when. A search for UCC and PebblePad on what but Google brought me to a news item for its use with the School of Pharmacy. Last year one of my group had described its use on an online forum for the course on teaching & learning in higher education.

Some browsing on the pages for it on the University of Edinburgh website made me wonder how it could be adapted for modules that use Special Collections or for staff as a way to track their own courses. Hmm!
“Use PebblePad in facilitated teaching, learning, and personal development contexts. As the facilitator, you can create custom resources for learners to use and submit for your feedback. You can promote continual engagement from learners by releasing new content at set times – and learners’ additions and changes will filter through to you until the date and time you choose.”

Plenty of things to consider for how it may be used!

One more thing to go back to the CPPD team!

Digital Knowledge: Thing 2 – Blogging

Digital Knowledge: Thing 1

Hmm! I’ve just read Charlie Farley’s blog and it says “I’m a joiner, a participant, a signer-up of ‘things’, and particularly online learning.” It’s good to know I’m not alone! Last year I did an online cert for teaching & learning in higher educat…

Digital Knowledge: Thing 1

Digital Knowledge: Thing 1

Hmm! I’ve just read Charlie Farley’s blog and it says “I’m a joiner, a participant, a signer-up of ‘things’, and particularly online learning.” It’s good to know I’m not alone! Last year I did an online cert for teaching & learning in higher educat…

Digital Knowledge: Thing 1

Rudai 23: Thanks

Whew! Just finished in the nick of time. I had so much fun doing all the posts, probably would have had better fun if I’d done them as I was supposed – a week at a time!I’ve so much to go back and re-check: LinkedIn, Screencast-O-Matic, Jing, Audacity,…

Rudai 23: Thanks

Rudai 23: Thanks

Whew! Just finished in the nick of time. I had so much fun doing all the posts, probably would have had better fun if I’d done them as I was supposed – a week at a time!I’ve so much to go back and re-check: LinkedIn, Screencast-O-Matic, Jing, Audacity,…

Rudai 23: Thanks