From completing 23 things my aim is to expand my data and digital skills set. This is the beginning of my journey digital literacy.
Category: 23 Things Syndicated
A new post
I m slowly learning and navigating my way around the new features of this blog. More new and exciting content to come soon.
Welcome to my blog.
I am a library officer at the library of the University of Technology in Sydney Australia. This blog will be a collection of my random thoughts and observations on many topics
A Researcher’s Guide to Social Media
How can I use twitter to develop my career? How much should I share with people? What other sites are researchers using? How do I develop a social media strategy for my group? Social media has become part of (most of) our lives, but if our use has developed principally for personal and social use … Continue reading A Researcher’s Guide to Social Media
winning things
Well done to the 23 Things Team. Winners of the Credo Digital Literacy Award at Lilac Conference 2017!
LILAC Credo Digital Literacy Award
Last night 23 Things for Digital Knowledge was awarded the Credo Digital Literacy Award for LILAC 17. Not going to lie, I’m feeling pretty cool right now. I’m seriously excited to have won this award as it will really help with future projects. ALSO, I get to select a charity to receive £500. I’ve chosen … Continue reading LILAC Credo Digital Literacy Award
Open Research: reading notes
I recently finished reading one of the OER Hub‘s publications: the Open Research textbook. The book is based on content and activity from a P2PU course called Open Research that ran in 2014 and 2015. It’s organized into five chapters that consist of content, a few activities to get you thinking about how to apply […]
Thing 7 – Twitter
Twitter is one of those things that I’ve had for a while but I could never really get into. On my original profile I followed a couple of my friends (not many were using it) and loads of celebrities. I got… Continue Reading →
Thing 3 & 4
Google didn’t seem to know me (unless I added University of Edinburgh and then I was second), although I did come up in 192 results from old electoral roll information. That was slightly worrying as it appears it would be really easy to find someone’s address there. Otherwise, I was quite please that I don’t feature. I…
Chartership – PKSB
As I mentioned on the last post that I made to this website, I was spending the next week or so completing the PKSB (Personal Knowledge and Skills Base) as … Continue reading
Thing 6 – Accessibility
For Thing 6 (Accessibility) we’re asked to read through a collection of scenarios of people with disabilities using the web. As I read through them I realise that there’s a lot about ‘surfing the web’ that I take for granted. I generally… Continue Reading →
What I hope to gain
So, I’m hoping to develop my digital skills generally. I also hope this will help me improve my blogging ability. (I already have a personal blogspace which I’d like to use more effectively.) With the digital transformation agenda at the University, I’m hoping this will help me understand what can be achieved using the tools…