This was an interesting topic for me to dive into because accessibility is something I didn’t realize I think about constantly. While there is nothing keeping me from accessing most websites and interfaces, some are definitely much more user friendly than others. As an iPhone user, I have the hardest time using my husband’s Android … Continue reading Thing 6 – Accessibility →
Category: 23 Things Syndicated
Thing 5 – Diversity
Does the introduction of more diverse emojis really matter? My answer: kind of. While I think that it’s important that companies are moving in the general direction of equality, I think that there is more that needs to be done. Is that the responsibility of a social media mogul? Maybe. The more importance we place … Continue reading Thing 5 – Diversity →
Visiting BETT 2019
On 23 January 2019 I afforded myself another visit to the BETT Show, which claims to be the World’s biggest education technology event https://www.bettshow.com/Even though it’s mainly addressing Schools, it can make sense to have good look around …
The Flipped Text: A Writing Workshop
As part of the first University of Edinburgh November WriteFest, Daphne Loads and I offered a workshop called ‘The Flipped Text’. Daphne and I both have intense relationships with the written word. She has used it in innumerable creative ways in her teaching and research practice (https://www.ed.ac.uk/institute-academic-development/about-us/staff/profiles/daphne-loads) and has written a wonderful book about creative … Continue reading The Flipped Text: A Writing Workshop
Thing 18 Augmented /Virtual Reality
I started experimenting with augmented reality by first downloading content that you printed out and could then use your phone to make “come alive”; I remember an Alien, a monster, a car and a hightop trainer. You could ‘colour’ them in using your phone. Then I found one that allowed you to draw weird … Continue reading Thing 18 Augmented /Virtual Reality →
Thing 17 Geolocation tools
I can remember a friend doing this with her husband and family a couple of years ago but didn’t really get it or see the draw. That’s not to say I don’t enjoy a treasure hunt as I have created many for my daughter when she was small and also in my work for my … Continue reading Thing 17 Geolocation tools →
Thing 7 – Twitter
This week there were three options for this Thing: beginners activities, intermediate activities, and choose not to sign up. I think this kind of self-selection of activities is something we should see more in courses like this, although I would like to see an “advanced” activity list as well OR have a portion that relates…
Thing 6 – Accessibility
This week’s think is accessibility, particularly when it comes to creating web content. The 23 things site provides a list: When creating online content always keep the following in mind: Don’t only convey information through colour or an image. Ensure there are text alternatives to enable people with sight impairments to access the information. Ensure that text…
Thing 5 – Diversity
This week’s first thing is about diversity, in particular, representative avatars through unicode (emojis) and images (bitmoji). I have to admit I was probably late to the game in finding out the new emojis had come out from Apple as the functionality was added through “press and hold”, and the time it took me to…
Bonus Thing A
The bonus thing was to consider creating a definitive “About Me Page”. When I was in grad school I actually used about.me to create this page, and linked to other online profiles I had from there. About.me started out as a one page bio, and over time I saw it start to encroach on LinkedIn’s…
Thing 4 – Digital Security
I have to say that when I dove into my iPhone privacy settings I was worried that something would surprise me. In actuality, I am pretty responsible when it comes to the number of applications I download and the data that I allow each application to use. With that said, I am also very aware … Continue reading Thing 4 – Digital Security →
Thing 16- One note
I have tried this before and really not found it as intuitive or shareable as google system or Evernote. Anyway, as it is part of the set of tasks, I used the opportunity to explore again and was pleasantly surprised that they had added some fluidity to some of the features. The adding audio/video had … Continue reading Thing 16- One note →