It’s hard to believe this is the final post in this series! For Thing 23, I will reflect on my previous posts and what I have learned. It has been 1244 days since I started this journey–my first post went up on 20 February 2019. Favourite pArts and Surprises I most enjoyed the parts of… Read more Thing 23: Reflection
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Thing 22: Fun and Play
The penultimate Thing focuses on having fun in digital spaces and suggests playing around with apps like Just a Line, an app which allowed users to create and share video animations of simple drawings; Dubsmash, a lip-synching app, or Snapchat, a messaging app that focuses on sharing pictures or short videos which are promptly deleted… Read more Thing 22: Fun and Play
Thing 21: Online Games and Learning Tools
Gamification is a part of life and learning online. Adding elements of game-playing, such as earning rewards, competing with others, tracking progress, and exploring stories, to non-game situations, can make education more engaging and interactive. Thing 21 asks us to explore the work of online educational games, by choosing two from a list and interacting… Read more Thing 21: Online Games and Learning Tools
Thing 20: Professional Social Networks
It can be easy to forget how new professional social networking is. Consider the students who enter university at eighteen in the autumn of 2022. They were born in the year Facebook was launched! Most young people, in other words, have never experienced a world without the social internet. Most researchers, on other hand, are… Read more Thing 20: Professional Social Networks
Thing 8 – Facebook
It’s been a while since I have posted and thought I had better get the 23Things blog finished!I have had Facebook for many years now and am aware of the privacy settings. I used it a lot however over the years I have stopped posting and using it as muc…
Thing 19: Altmetrics
Citations, as I tell students in academic skills workshops, are a way to acknowledge where their information comes from. Any direct quotes; paraphrases or summaries, theories or arguments (or even viewpoints); or statistics, case studies, diagrams, etc; that they did not make themselves must be followed with a reference to the source of that work.… Read more Thing 19: Altmetrics
Thing 23: Reflection & Farewell
I have come to the end of my 23 Things for Digital Knowledge journey, and what an enlightening and enjoyable journey it has been! When I embarked upon the program last year I could not possibly have contemplated that the world was about to be forever changed by the spectre of COVID-19. In my own …
Thing 22: Fun, Play, Create
This is the second last ‘Thing’, meaning my 23Things journey is almost over! This week I had fun creating digital objects with cool tools including Dubsmash and Snapchat, both of which I downloaded and used on an Android device. Dubsmash was particularly enjoyable as it allows you to create videos of yourself lip-syncing to audio. …
Altmetrics – Thing 19
Altmetrics is useful as it helps government policy makers, researchers and news media services understand how information is shared by the public and their perception / popularity towards it. It captures a range of online sources of how a document is used and shared. Altmetrics can display the geographical area (by countries) of shared informationContinue reading “Altmetrics – Thing 19”
Reflection – Thing 23
In reflection of completing 23 Things, I am really excited that I have learnt how to create my own website via WordPress and how to blog. I have not had any experience with either of these before. At times, I felt like I would not have enough time to complete 23 Things due to theContinue reading “Reflection – Thing 23”
Fun, Play and Create – Thing 22
Snap chat is an app which I have not personally used on my phone, however I have seen my kids and husband play around with it and it looks like a heap of fun. Messages and photos are sent to family and friends, and these disappear after a very short period of time. Basically aContinue reading “Fun, Play and Create – Thing 22”
Online Games and Learning – Thing 21
I haven’t used any of these online games before, however I tried Kahoot and Sumdog which were a lot of fun. Interactive games which increase difficulty according to your skill level is a great way for students to learn at their own pace, whilst …