Locate a Tumblr blog in your field or hobby of interest and share this on your blog. http://culturalanthropo.tumblr.com/ I located a Tumblr blog on a subject that I have keen interests in, and that is anthropology. I studied the subject at university some years ago and have kept coming back to the subject from time … Continue reading “Thing 15 – Tumblr”

I want to Soundcloud and found an interesting podcast on anthropology. Anthropology is an area of interests that I have. This was a talk by an anthropologist named Gillian Tett who used her anthropology training while working in the financial services industry to highlight the cultural problems, especially in the way language was used, that … Continue reading “Thing 14 – Podcasts and Soundcloud”

I have discovered that YouTube is an excellent platform for accessing a range of videos online. Whatever one’s interest, there probably is a video covering it- from tutorials of various educational and general interests, to music videos, movies, animation, you name it, there probably is a video. Also, the quality of videos are a mixture … Continue reading “Thin 13 – Video”

I want to Soundcloud and found an interesting podcast on anthropology. Anthropology is an area of interests that I have. This was a talk by an anthropologist named Gillian Tett who used her anthropology training while working in the financial services industry to highlight the cultural problems, especially in the way language was used, that … Continue reading “Thing 14 – Podcasts”

I found this topic very interesting. Today with the explosion of information, many organisation, especially formal educational institutions like universities, are providing open access educationally resources. I think this can be a good thing for people to participate in continuous education and retraining. It provides with the information that they require in the topics they … Continue reading “Thing 12 – Open Education Resources”

The two media files that I checked for this topic on copyright were a sound file of a piece of music that can be use as background music for films and computer games, and a landscape painting from Finland. Both have licence conditions applied to them in regards to their use. For the sound file, … Continue reading “Thing 11 – Copyright”

I do think it is important to have diverse representation in the online world. After all, many societies where people live and places they work are diverse and this should be reflected online as well. Also, having diversity online allows people to express themselves through their identity, and I think it is appropriate that people … Continue reading “Diverse representation online”

To begin with, my smartphone uses Android version 2.3.5. I have had the smartphone for about three years. In the technology world this is ancient. When I went to the My permission.org website I put in my number to get the app sent to my phone, which it subsequently did; however, when I went to download the … Continue reading “Digital Security”

Today, with people participating more and more online in various activities, either work or social, people are leaving traces of these activities. This is what I think a digital footprint is – a trace of what one has been reading, viewing, listening, and engaging with in the online sphere. This is why I think people … Continue reading “Digital Footprint”

What I am hoping to get out of the 23 Things program is to update my knowledge and skills in the area of social media, especially for employment reasons. I did something similar to this program about ten years ago when I worked in a public library, which was done through the State Library of … Continue reading “23 Things – First Post”