The end of 23 Things and I have enjoyed investigating the digital Things on offer: it was fun to take part in a Wikipedia Adventure, and to spend time exploring resources such as Lit Long:Edinburgh, Tumblr and SoundCloud. I particularly found Thing 5: Diversity to be very interesting and thought-provoking. As a very private person … Continue reading Thing 23: Reflection

I downloaded Snapchat just for this course and we had a good time playing with it at home but I won’t be indulging regularly! I’m not the most open of online sharers and and my face after two days of intense 23Thing-ing staring at the screen isn’t at its best even with crazy filters (though … Continue reading Thing 22: Fun and Play

I played around with Hour of Code last night and was transported back to the days of making cyan circles on the ZX Spectrum and typing in lines of code from magazines to unlock levels or cheats on games (perhaps on the Spectrum + by then).  Those of us of a certain vintage learned basic … Continue reading Thing 21: Online Games and Learning Tools

This takes me in a neat circle back to the beginning, or at least to Thing 3, and my digital footprint.  I have profiles on all three of the above sites, all to allow me to look at information on others but none of which I use to interact with others.  I’m not sure of the … Continue reading Thing 20: LinkedIn, Academia.edu, ResearchGate

I am familiar with Altmetrics having attended two seminars in the past (one from the Athena Swan perspective presented by a rep from Altmetrics.com and the other an internal presentation from an impact perspective).  I do use Altmetrics.com to chart impact of papers from our Centre but many non-D.O.I mentions (on Twitter for example) are … Continue reading Thing 19: Altmetrics

I’m glad I’m at home trying to catch up on 23Things as I have now lost an hour to Lit Long:Edinburgh!  Fascinating to read passages from literature through the ages referencing where I am sitting right now.  I will return to this as Scottish literature is a passion of mine.  Equally interesting from a local … Continue reading Thing 17: Geolocation Tools

I have recently started using OneNote at work as I find it really suits my way of organising notes.  The sections/pages layout allows me to break down topics/tasks well and I can access my notes anywhere.  I particularly like the screen clipping function as this allows me to pop in bits of presentations, for example, … Continue reading Thing 16: OneNote

I’m going to return to Storify at a later date – I like the idea of rationalising my output this way but as I don’t have time right now, I thought I’d take a look at Tumblr instead – big mistake; here is a link to a Tumblr blog about overcoming procrastination!  I’ve spent far … Continue reading Thing 15: Tumblr/Storify

I love podcasts! I love radio and the realisation several years back that you could listen to featured programmes or topics at a time of your choosing (post tape-recorder and very early-mp3 player) was fantastic.  I still subscribe to podcasts now even though I could find most of the content through other platforms – I … Continue reading Thing 14 – podcasts

I watched the Lynda.com course on YouTube and enjoyed finding out more about the monetisation of videos – I can’t imagine racking up in excess of 100 hours of interest in anything I may upload but who knows?   I tend to search for videos as and when I need them therefore have never set up … Continue reading Thing 13 – YouTube