A few weeks ago, an academic colleague asked me to digitise a play and add it to a reading list so all of their students could access it: It should be out of copyright (1949) by now, right? Librarian colleagues, depending on what else has happened in their day, might be laughing, groaning, snorting or… Read more Thing 11: Copyright
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Thing 1 & 2 – Intro to Blogging
Learning from 23 Things… Through blogging for 23ThingsEdUni, I hope to learn more about what benefits may be associated with blogging. I believe that it is important to be able to properly make use of the digital tools that we have access to online, and I am looking forward to completing the 23 Things List. … Continue reading Thing 1 & 2 – Intro to Blogging
Things 1 & 2: Introduction and Blogging
What do I hope to gain from the 23 Things program? I don’t know much of anything about computers, or blogging or having my own website. I was given a task in the fall 2019 semester to make my own ePortfolio, given that I got a new job in the ePortfolio studio. But I had […]
11/16/2019
This week in our LEAP class, we talked about professionalism. Professionalism the type of behavior you would expect from a professional person or like how you would act in a professional situation. This includes showing up on time for work and treating other people with respect. Learning about professionalism will help me in my job […]
Abdicating responsibility
This man does it all for me…. This is Andrew, my IT Manager at work – he looks after my smartphone. Having read up on mobile security I’m feeling a bit guilty that I just assume everything is fine and I can blame Andrew if anything goes wrong. So now I’m shamefacedly going through the … Continue reading Abdicating responsibility →
Dreadful Penny
This Saturday – 25 January 2020 my new all female rock band Dreadful Penny will be making their debut. There are many gruesome stats about the lack of gender balance in the music industry, so come and support women on a (rock and) roll to change that. Girls Rock School supports the best established and … Continue reading Dreadful Penny
Accessibility toggles in WordPress
Reading Time: 5 minutes Thing 6 – my continuing adventure with 23things Today’s thoughts have been a long time coming, mostly because it has taken me a long time to test and evaluate my experience of accessibility as a WordPress user. I am…
Thing 5 – Diversity
Today the topic of focus was diverse representation online through the use of emojis. Until reading the articles I was unaware that there were issues surrounding the new emojis released. However, I completely understand both sides of the argument. In m…
One note
I feel like Microsoft Onenote is the app none of us will be able to do without in a year’s time. It’s a great way of organising information in a clear, colourful, hierarchical structure: including pictures, calendar entries and even handwritten scribbles. It works well for gathering and compiling important business information, for example that … Continue reading One note →
Happy New Year
Today I have been looking at inspiring acting quotes on Tumblr: “Why sit around and say, ‘I’d like to do something?’ You’ve just gotta do it. You might fail at first, but your failures are what are going to allow you to move onto success.” Joel Edgerton https://actingref-for-actorsandanimators.tumblr.com/ Speaking of failure, this background artist’s handiwork … Continue reading Happy New Year →
Thing 10 – Wikimedia
While Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons (a free to use library of images, music, videos and photographs), and online dictionary Wiktionary are arguably quite well known, other Wikimedia projects such as Wikibooks (free to use textbooks, guides and manuals), Wikiquote (notable quotations, proverbs and slogans), and Wikispecies (a species database) are less familiar to me. I set out to learn more! Thing 10 calls for an exploration of …
Looking back … and looking forward
24 December 2019 – nearly the end of the year … This morning, I heard on the radio that the Queen will look back to 2019 as a ‘bumpy year’. Who wouldn’t agree? Seems like we’re moving into bumpier times on an almost daily basis, looking at our future…