As a student, I use OneNote all the time. It is by far the easiest office package to make quick notes on, and I also like being able to keep all of my notes in one place. Furthermore, its automatic saving and it being online is a huge bonus- I don’t need to worry about […]

I searched Edinburgh into Tumblr to see what came up. Though I see Edinburgh everyday, there were so many pictures that I saw which I had never seen the real life version of- for example a photograph by Lives Unique of a very old looking library that claims to be at Edinburgh University- complete with […]

For Thing 12 I had a look at the Edinburgh Open Educational Resources (OERs) and selected one that I thought looked particularly interesting. On the site it said that this OER was a work in progress, however they also listed dozens of stories from different major world religions. I had never heard of OERs today, […]

I have always really liked podcasts and so I therefore enjoyed thing 14 a lot, particularly as it provided a list of the ‘best podcasts’. For me, podcasts are a very good way of learning about the world. I often find it hard to concentrate on reading for an extended period of time (I am […]

I chose YouTube as my platform, as I have used all three platforms before and like YouTube the best, and (again) stuck to anthropology as my area of interest. I chose the first result, a video called ‘An introduction to Anthropology’, which went over the basics of ‘what is anthropology and why should we study […]

I searched ‘Anthropology’ in Google Images from Creative Commons and identified two photographs which could be used for a presentation about Social Anthropology. The first one was a photo of ‘Andean Weaving’ from the museum of UBC in Vancouver, Canada. The second photo was of three Cheyenne Native Americans sitting in a tepee- this photograph […]

I decided not to create a Wikipedia/ Wikimedia account as an editor and instead opted to look at Wikimedia’s range of open knowledge projects. The things that surprised me were 1) the fact that Wikipedia is part of a wider network ‘Wikimedia’ (I had always thought that Wikipedia stood alone as a website), and 2) […]

I had never heard of Google Hangouts before today. It was interesting to use it, although it sort of felt like it was Google using the ideas of Facebook messenger or WhatsApp for their own site. I certainly don’t think I will become a regular user of hangouts- I am glad I know that it […]

I have been using Facebook for years now and am both a member of, and also admin of multiple groups. Therefore, although I read both the article and some of the FAQs about Facebook groups, I don’t think I learned anything particularly new. I use Facebook groups to share ideas about coursework, for societies and […]

Although I do technically have a twitter account, I have never actually used it and also cant remember my login details, nor do I particularly want to, so instead I opted for option 3 of thing 7- looking at how Twitter can be used without having a Twitter account. The first thing that I noticed […]

For thing 6: Accessibility, I went through my phone’s accessibility features, after having read the articles. I had no idea that there was such a wide range of features to help people who would have trouble using their phones in the normal settings. Before I had a look at the accessibility features, and after having […]

When Apple first introduced the multiracial emojis I thought that it was a very good step in the right direction towards a more inclusive world. Though I still think this is the case, I can see how it is problematic that, other than skin colour, they still all look exactly the same. I think its […]