As a student, I use OneNote all the time. It is by far the easiest office package to make quick notes on, and I also like being able to keep all of my notes in one place. Furthermore, its automatic saving and it being online is a huge bonus- I don’t need to worry about […]

I searched Edinburgh into Tumblr to see what came up. Though I see Edinburgh everyday, there were so many pictures that I saw which I had never seen the real life version of- for example a photograph by Lives Unique of a very old looking library that claims to be at Edinburgh University- complete with […]

For Thing 12 I had a look at the Edinburgh Open Educational Resources (OERs) and selected one that I thought looked particularly interesting. On the site it said that this OER was a work in progress, however they also listed dozens of stories from different major world religions. I had never heard of OERs today, […]

I followed the ‘Intermediate’ guide because I have a Twitter but rarely use it.  I had no idea Twitter offered the Analytics feature, and I think that it is such a useful tool.  Businesses and the like could really benefit from looking at that data to manage their account and better reach their target audience.  I thought the Events tab in the Analytics was really cool because you can see what the popular events are, where they’re taking place, and how many people are tweeting about it.  I also did not know the list feature existed, but I think it’s a convenient tool to use.  For people who have one account to manage their personal and professional lives, making two separate lists could be really helpful.

I went through the accessibility settings on my phone.  I knew that it was possible to change the size of text because my parents enabled this feature on their phones.  However, there are so many features that I did not know about that are seem so amazing for people with certain disabilities.  I think that it’s so great that Apple is trying to make their devices as accessible to everyone as possible.  Going through the stories of web users with disabilities made me aware of the problems some people can face that I didn’t previously consider.  I have a friend that is colour blind and I know that shopping is particularly difficult for him, so I’m glad that there is an effort to increase awareness about this issue and correct it.

I have always really liked podcasts and so I therefore enjoyed thing 14 a lot, particularly as it provided a list of the ‘best podcasts’. For me, podcasts are a very good way of learning about the world. I often find it hard to concentrate on reading for an extended period of time (I am […]

I chose YouTube as my platform, as I have used all three platforms before and like YouTube the best, and (again) stuck to anthropology as my area of interest. I chose the first result, a video called ‘An introduction to Anthropology’, which went over the basics of ‘what is anthropology and why should we study […]

I searched ‘Anthropology’ in Google Images from Creative Commons and identified two photographs which could be used for a presentation about Social Anthropology. The first one was a photo of ‘Andean Weaving’ from the museum of UBC in Vancouver, Canada. The second photo was of three Cheyenne Native Americans sitting in a tepee- this photograph […]