Very excited about this one! Have just had an intimate Collaborate session with myself and can think of lots of great uses for this. Uploading files, chatting and polling were simplicity itself, although choosing the right settings when setting up the session would be key as I found that only one of me had any… Continue reading Thing 9, Collaborate
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Altmetrics
I searched our library catalogue to find an article in my field that had altmetrics. This was a lot harder than I expected because either the articles I found didn’t have a DOI on the page (which is what altermetrics search for) or it did have a DOI on the page and the software just … Continue reading Altmetrics →
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”
Evil Auto Complete?
There are also evil women. I didn’t go looking for them either. This is what I type: “a-r-e w-o-m-e-n”. And Google offers me just two choices, the first of which is: “Are women evil?” I press return. Yes, they are. Every one of the 10 results “confirms” that they are, including the top one, from […]
Understanding accessibility
Thing 6. Using the internet is so easy when you don’t have any accessibility needs. Stories of web users made me much more aware of the variety of issues people can come across and how small changes or accessibility settings can make such a huge difference to someone’s user experience. I played about with my […]
Week 12 of 23 Things – Thing 23: Reflection
This last task, we have been asked to reflect on the course as a whiole. As I come to the end of this 23Things course, which I have done mainly on Saturdays and Sundays when I’ve been at home, I’ve really enjoyed thinking about and exploring various new tools and things I wanted to try for […]
Week 12 of 23 Things – Thing 22: Fun and Play
So it’s the last week of 23Things and this week we are asked to try out fun and playful apps. So I decided to signup for Snap chat, I hear it’s what all the young people are into nowadays. I have to say, maybe because I’m not quite the demographic of this app, but I […]
Thing 3: Digital Footprint
I’m wondering why I am so nervous about digital footprints when I don’t have anything to hide. I guess it is to do with enjoying privacy and lack of understanding on how things can be shared and control lost as content escalates away from you. Having watched the video and reviewed some of the resources… Continue reading Thing 3: Digital Footprint
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Thing 21: Online Games and Learning
National Museum of Scotland – Morse Code This is a simple cute game that illustrates how text is translated into Morse code. It’s basic but I think gives enough information to get the point across. I did wonder how useful it would be for a younger child who had no idea how Morse code worked … Continue reading Thing 21: Online Games and Learning →
Thing 20: Professional Social Networks – LinkedIn
I have used LinkedIn for a number of years. I like that it gives me a public profile that I control, and in fact I don’t actually keep a paper CV any more, but I do update LinkedIn when something changes in my job of I gain a qualification. This ‘thing’ has inspired me to … Continue reading Thing 20: Professional Social Networks – LinkedIn →
Thing 19: Altmetrics
I installed the Altmetric Bookmarklet (which is really simple to install and use). Then I explored a few publications in my area of learning technology. It was sad to see some very low altmetric scores – it made me think how comparatively easy it would be to increase these with a few well placed tweets. After … Continue reading Thing 19: Altmetrics →