Having never owned an iphone, I’ve always felt a wee bit left behind in the world of podcasts. When you Google anything, you have the option of searching All, Images, Videos, News and even Books, but not Podcasts (surely this feature would be great and is coming soon though, right?!) But it’s good that more … Continue reading Danny Ricciardo →
Category: 23 Things Syndicated
How to be
Having used You Tube on a daily basis, I thought it would be interesting to explore and contrast fellow video sharing platform Vimeo. People had sent me links to Vimeo before, but I’d always found the site intimidating to navigate and understand, so it was finally time to put on my big girl pants and … Continue reading How to be →
Reflection
As I come to the end of the University of Edinburgh’s 23 things, I’ve been reflecting on the course and my experiences. Overall it was an enjoyable and useful course to go through, I enjoyed the learning games in Thing 21, found Altmetrics interesting in Thing 19, and was pleasantly surprised by how useful Just … Continue reading Reflection
Fun, Play, and Create
I played around with a couple of the apps, Snapchat – which I already have used, which my friends use alot to microblog about their day with images and video – they love a filter. I also took a look at Just a line, which I hadn’t used before and this was interesting by drawing … Continue reading Fun, Play, and Create
Online Games and Learning
I played MicroParasites2D on the National Museum of Scotland website, the games takes the player through the evolution and spread of the malaria parasite within the body. You play as the drug which is set to come to the rescue! Playing the game was interesting as you tackle bigger and more experiences foes – as … Continue reading Online Games and Learning
LinkedIn is a fine place to host your online CV and previous work experience. However, the platform could do better to implement features which legitimize the claims made by the individuals. This could be in the form of organisations signing up and providing an approved “tick” which confirms the individual has worked within the organisation … Continue reading LinkedIn
23 Things
Hi, My name is Gary and I work for an environmental charity called Changeworks. I am the Information Communication Technology (ICT) Technician, in other words IT support. 2. I’m not too sure what I will gain from doing the 23 things as I work in IT. I am more interested in what my work colleagues … Continue reading 23 Things →
Altmetrics
Altmetrics tracks where published research is mentioned online, and provides tools and services to institutions, publishers, researchers, funders and other organisations to monitor this activity. I added Altmetrics to Firefox and browsed a few journals and the metrics gathered were quite interesting, it doesn’t judge the quality of the journal but does give an indication … Continue reading Altmetrics
Dance Monkey
So this afternoon I have mostly been exploring Merlot – “on a Monday daytime?!” I hear you gasp! No, not the wine (for once) it’s an Open Educational Resource online search tool – try saying that after a few glasses! So what should you learn first when you have the entire world’s knowledge at your … Continue reading Dance Monkey →
Virtual Reality
I have played around a couple virtual reality headsets: Sony’s Playstation VR headset – requires connection to a Playstation 4, the resolution of the image is quite low and it becomes hard to read text. After a awhile, depending on the experience / game it can bring on motion sickness after 20 – 30 minutes … Continue reading Virtual Reality
Geolocation
A fun Geolocation app / game is Pokemon Go! It is the most widely used location based, combined with location tracking it uses augmented reality to overlay creatures in the game in the real world. It’s also free with in app purchases and comes o…
OneNote
OneNote is an extremely useful application, I use it for taking notes at meetings as well as storing information for quick referencing and also collaboration with others on Projects using Shared OneNotes.Using Office 365 services, my OneNote books can…