My first example is a YouTube video that popped up when I opened the website. I thought I would pick the first one that came up and see what licence it had. The video is of a car reviewer talking about a new car he has bought. In the description of the video it states… Continue Reading →
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Thing 5
The Bitmoji craze was something that I didn’t really understand, but with younger brothers, I was well aware of how widespread the fad was at a time. The interesting thought I had was that it was great that people were now able to express themselves using an image that looked like themselves. This comes in … Continue reading Thing 5
Thing 6 – Accessibility
Hello! I am very luck and have no disabilities, I have therefore not considered many of the problems that could be encountered by disabled people online. Is was eye-opening to read stories told by people like Kaseem who is deaf and blind needing an electronic braille note taker or Lee who struggles with colour blindness…. Continue Reading →
Thing 4
This exercise was interesting because it was something that I had thought about before and I regularly check my privacy settings on my phone. The interesting thing this time was that I also checked which apps were allowed to access my location and under what circumstances. Apps such as games automatically had access to my location … Continue reading Thing 4
Thing 5 – Diversity
Hello! This is my bitmoji! While this is was an entertaining process to make one and style it to look like me, the process does raise a few questions. On one hand the ability for most people to be represented through these bitmojis and emojis is great. This means that people of colour that… Continue Reading →
Thing 3
I Googled myself and my hometown and found no information on myself. Next, I googled my name and a number of other keywords such as the name of my school, the name of the Universities I have attended, and a number of competitions I have been involved in. From this, there were a number of … Continue reading Thing 3
Thing 2
What do I hope to gain from The Edinburgh Award and 23 Things? I hope to explore and learn a number of key transferable skills in digital content creation. I have always found the concept of a digital footprint an interesting thought, its something that we learn about in a negative way with warnings about … Continue reading Thing 2
Thing 4 – Digital Security
Hello! The Smartphone Security Information written by the Information Commissioner’s Office is a very valuable read. I wasn’t aware of these specific guidelines but they will definitely change the way I act with my phone. I have always been slightly conscious of granting apps the ability to access all things but reading this made me acutely aware…. Continue Reading →
The Journey Begins
Thanks for joining me on my first blog! This blog will document the work I am doing towards achieving my Edinburgh Award in Digital Content Creation.
Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton
Thing 3 – Digital Footprint
Hello! What is a digital footprint? Well after watching this video I learned that it is not just my actions on the inter net but also “What others have said about you” and “images you’re tagged in”. As someone who is fairly conscious of there digital footprint this really stood out to me, you have… Continue Reading →
First Post – Thing 1 and 2
Hello! This blog will follow me through my submissions for the Edinburgh Award in digital content creation. My submissions will be based on the outlines from the “23 Things”. I will be learning about topics ranging from writing blogs to geolocation tools. If you a reading them hopefully you will learn something too. This program has… Continue Reading →
Thing 10
Just completed Thing 10 and the Wiki adventure. It was a very interesting journey through seven missions of creating and editing a Wikipedia page. Definitely worth doing.