The year is 2016, groups of youths gather menacingly in public places. What are they up to? Dealing? Scheming? Plotting to overthrow Boomers once and for all? Actually, they are catching cartoon ‘animals’ on their smartphones. Yes Pokemon Go famously got youths out into the great outdoors… to stare at their screens and ignore the … Continue reading Augmented ‘reality’? →
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Thing 1: An Introduction
An introduction to me? An introduction to the 23 Things List? Well since this is my blog I guess I can choose and so let’s look at both. Me – Becky Eley Born in England, I studied law at Wolverhampton and then becoming a bookseller for Waterstones (one of my favourite jobs). From there IContinue reading “Thing 1: An Introduction”
A new, old thing
Instructed by 23 Things EdUni to set up a Facebook Group, I was quite excited to try this new aspect of my old Facebook account. I was, however, a tad disappointed when I clicked on the ‘group’ area only to discover I’m already a memberof several groups, and hadn’t looked at any of them for … Continue reading A new, old thing →
Short and not too sweet
So that’s me signed up to twitter – minimum fuss and very easy to get started. For something that is sold on the attractiveness of brevity, after choosing to follow a very small number of tweeters my inbox is deluged with all manner of stuff. Took me half an hour to skim through it all. … Continue reading Short and not too sweet →
Hunting for Treasures
Geocaching is a great fun free family activity and an excellent way of turning a ‘boring’ walk into a treasure hunt adventure. All you need is a smartphone and the Geocaching.com website, downloading the app might make things easier, but the website works just fine. Geo – meaning Earth, and Cache – a French word … Continue reading Hunting for Treasures →
B’Jesus this is complicated
Plugging our web address into the WAVE web accessibility evaluation tool results in this bewildering array of error messages. A nice visual representation of how complex this issue is, if such a high number of issues pop up on what is a well designed website belonging to a right-on organisation. I wonder how anyone other … Continue reading B’Jesus this is complicated →
Diverse Emojis
🖕 These things are annoying enough wihtout now having to waste time chosing a skin tone. What’s wrong with yellow? No-one’s yellow, so its all cartoony and unrealistic anyway.
Thing 7 & 8 – Twitter and Facebook
Twitter as a resource? I browsed the #ODU content on Twitter without creating an account and I was information regarding the new opening “Monarch Court” space in the Webb Center. I also saw posts from students who were promoting their hair services, basketball game results, and other ODU related information. I believe that Twitter can … Continue reading Thing 7 & 8 – Twitter and Facebook
Thing 12 – Open Educational Resources
Open Education Resources or OER’s are educational resources (for example podcasts, video recordings, lecture slides) that have been licenced to allow them to be shared and reused. A quick internet search reveals resources covering such diverse areas as a Survey of Scottish Witchcraft Visualisations and a Math in Society course available from the Open Course …
Thing 11- Copyright
Thing 11 from the University of Edinburgh’s 23 Things course explores the area of Intellectual Property Rights referred to as ‘copyright’ – the rights given to the author of a creative work. Creative works can take many forms, and the automatic rights of authors will differ dependant upon what type of creative work they produce, …
Thing 5 & 6 – Diversity and Accessibility
Diverse Emojis? I don’t have an issue with diversity options online. I don’t think most people put too much thought into their usage of emojis and what skin colors they should use. If users want to use the diverse emojis they have that option, or they can just use the original default yellow emojis. Accessibility … Continue reading Thing 5 & 6 – Diversity and Accessibility
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What you hope to gain out of the 23 Things programme? No idea.. is blogging still a thing? 😀 I’m looking forward to expand my knowledge and hopefulyl learn something new that I can use at work/home