For this Thing I looked at the Snapchat app. I have used Snapchat before but only a couple of times. It was one of the apps I uninstalled back at Thing 4 because it uses… More

Hour of Code I went to the Hour of Code website expecting it to be a single tutorial to work through, so I was surprised to find there are nearly 200 different games to choose… More

Gamification My first encounter with Gamification was last August when I was at the CASE Europe conference. I attended a session on “Gamification in Higher Education” presented by Süha Soydan from the Student recruitment team at Özyegin Unievrsity in Turkey. One of the first things he did was make us get our mobile devices out […]

I like LinkedIn, have had an account for several years, and I have a good presence on my profile: (although clearly I need to do something else on my profile in order to fill in that last little white gap at the top there!) I have written recommendations for other people, and have received recommendations […]

Impact is important for researchers, and it’s good to see there are now ways of tracking the impact of academic articles. I installed the bookmarklet but struggled to find an article in my professional field that could deliver statistics via Altmetric. So I looked at the stats for the article about Bringing elephants to Australia. The […]

In an amusing progression from my last post (Geocaching) where my nine year old deemed Geocaching “better than Pokemon”, here I’m going to write about Pokemon! We got Pokemon on our phones the minute it came out. At the time we were on the island of Islay, and we had no idea how it worked, […]

“Better than Pokémon” Says my 9 year old! Wow this was so much fun, how did I never really pay attention to what this is? I’d heard of it but just not really appreciated how good it would be.  So I downloaded the app and watched a couple of videos as I wasn’t sure how […]

I’ve used one note before and know of colleagues who use it. Actually it’s a smart idea at the uni where we can share some things with some people (like those who have access to the same drives as us) but can’t share or edit together with people in other departments. Which means there’s a […]

http://saucony.tumblr.com I was hoping there would be a more exciting way of sharing this to my blog but I can’t figure it out! So I created a Tumblr account. It seems to me a bit like twitter, blogging and Instagram. I prefer Instagram. Anyhow, here is the running gear company Saucony’s feed. I searched for […]