Creating a curated collection is one of my favourite passtimes. Selecting items from a larger collection and curating a subset for an exhibition or theme can amuse me for hours. Digital curation is Thing15 of our 23 Things. I do think this is one way in which discerning people can add value to the internet. …
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Week 11 of 23 Things – Thing 21: Online Games and Learning
Games in education is nothing new, teachers have been using paper, card, glue etc and creating many games, but what I liked about both Kahoot and National Museum of Scotland Games (Wind Farm) I played today was how many quick and easy platforms are half-ready for teachers to pick, adapt and use in the classroom with […]
hearing things
Many years ago in a galaxy far, far away Oxford University launched on ItunesU. Here’s the screenshot from BBC ceefax that night. Podcasts are Thing 14 of our 23Things and I am getting nostalgic again. Here’s a case study by Terese Bird of how we approached podcasting at Oxford. And here’s the Oxford podcasts site …
Thing 8, Facebook.
Facebook is a sort-of irresistible and multi-faceted siren demon in my life. Incredibly useful and efficient, devastatingly needy and time-munching, precariously dangerous (particularly late at night), unbearably annoying yet entirely indispensable. To maintain sanity during the working day I save Facebook exclusively for personal use. However, I did lead a study into student use of Facebook groups which is currently… Continue reading Thing 8, Facebook.
things we can name
My choice of platform for Thing13 of our 23things is Media Hopper. You may wonder why Media Hopper is called Media Hopper. You will know the following definitions of hopper: hopper ( agric) : a container for a loose bulk material. hopper ( minecraft ): a block that can be used to catch item entities, …
Thing 7, Twitter.
Twitter was the 23 things holy grail for me. The thing I most wanted to get out of the 23 things project was thing 7: to learn to use twitter to keep up with my field. So here I am twittering but not tweeting. Finding people to follow was easy and rewarding. I have already… Continue reading Thing 7, Twitter.
Thing 16 – OneNote
I’m pretty new to notes software. I used Evernote on my iPad with the Apple pencil a few weeks ago for the first time and the novelty factor was great. This “thing” has provided me with a good opportunity to explore the concept and experiment a bit. It’s not something I would include in the…
Augmented and Virtual Reality
Virtual Reality Virtual Reality is something I have some experience in and find extremely fun. My workplace has VR equipment so I was able to try the InCell game and many other games and experiences. It is an amazing to be physically somewhere but be virtually somewhere else. I have also found that throwing objects … Continue reading Augmented and Virtual Reality →
Thing 12 – OERs
“Knowledge Sharing” by Ewa Rozkosz is licensed under Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 2.0. The SSSC Learning Technology team strongly believe in the principles of OER, and as such, has made much of its work available in formats which allow others to use the information to develop their own resources. It’s been licensed under a Creative Commons…
Geolocation Tools
I created an account at Geocaching to try it out and see if I could use my phone as a GPS device and find something exciting. I now understand how it works but ran out of time to actually go and physically find a location. I also had a look at Lit Long: Edinburgh. I … Continue reading Geolocation Tools →
23 Things: Thing 13 Video
So here’s a thing…. (thing…get it?) …. although I consume as much online video as the next person I don’t actually produce a great deal, though there are plenty of embarrassing videos of me on YouTube from various conferences and events. Recently however I did have to produce a couple of videos. The first was […]
Thing 11 – Copyright
Thing 11 – Copyright As a trainer and educator, I’ve had to give *a lot* of presentations over the years, and often find myself looking for images to make the PowerPoint/Prezi/Keynote a bit more interesting. These have all taken place during my employment with various NGOs, charities and Universities, so I rather lazily assumed that…
