Excited to say I am past the halfway point for completing my 23 Things for Digital Knowledge posts! It has been an educational journey and this week I am exploring the world of open educational resources, or OERs. “45th Parallel” by Shutterbug Fotos is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0 In this post I will discuss… Read more Thing 12: Open Educational Resources
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Thing 3 & 4 – Digital Footprint and Digital Security
My Digital Footprint I think that the information on digital footprints is helpful in order to maintain a good impression on future employers in regards to one’s online presence by making a distinction between a personal and profession social media account. When researching my own digital footprint, the top result on Google was this ePortfolio … Continue reading Thing 3 & 4 – Digital Footprint and Digital Security
Thing 11: Copyright
A few weeks ago, an academic colleague asked me to digitise a play and add it to a reading list so all of their students could access it: It should be out of copyright (1949) by now, right? Librarian colleagues, depending on what else has happened in their day, might be laughing, groaning, snorting or… Read more Thing 11: Copyright
Thing 1 & 2 – Intro to Blogging
Learning from 23 Things… Through blogging for 23ThingsEdUni, I hope to learn more about what benefits may be associated with blogging. I believe that it is important to be able to properly make use of the digital tools that we have access to online, and I am looking forward to completing the 23 Things List. … Continue reading Thing 1 & 2 – Intro to Blogging
Abdicating responsibility
This man does it all for me…. This is Andrew, my IT Manager at work – he looks after my smartphone. Having read up on mobile security I’m feeling a bit guilty that I just assume everything is fine and I can blame Andrew if anything goes wrong. So now I’m shamefacedly going through the … Continue reading Abdicating responsibility →
Accessibility toggles in WordPress
Reading Time: 5 minutes Thing 6 – my continuing adventure with 23things Today’s thoughts have been a long time coming, mostly because it has taken me a long time to test and evaluate my experience of accessibility as a WordPress user. I am…
Thing 5 – Diversity
Today the topic of focus was diverse representation online through the use of emojis. Until reading the articles I was unaware that there were issues surrounding the new emojis released. However, I completely understand both sides of the argument. In m…
One note
I feel like Microsoft Onenote is the app none of us will be able to do without in a year’s time. It’s a great way of organising information in a clear, colourful, hierarchical structure: including pictures, calendar entries and even handwritten scribbles. It works well for gathering and compiling important business information, for example that … Continue reading One note →
Happy New Year
Today I have been looking at inspiring acting quotes on Tumblr: “Why sit around and say, ‘I’d like to do something?’ You’ve just gotta do it. You might fail at first, but your failures are what are going to allow you to move onto success.” Joel Edgerton https://actingref-for-actorsandanimators.tumblr.com/ Speaking of failure, this background artist’s handiwork … Continue reading Happy New Year →
Thing 10 – Wikimedia
While Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons (a free to use library of images, music, videos and photographs), and online dictionary Wiktionary are arguably quite well known, other Wikimedia projects such as Wikibooks (free to use textbooks, guides and manuals), Wikiquote (notable quotations, proverbs and slogans), and Wikispecies (a species database) are less familiar to me. I set out to learn more! Thing 10 calls for an exploration of …
Danny Ricciardo
Having never owned an iphone, I’ve always felt a wee bit left behind in the world of podcasts. When you Google anything, you have the option of searching All, Images, Videos, News and even Books, but not Podcasts (surely this feature would be great and is coming soon though, right?!) But it’s good that more … Continue reading Danny Ricciardo →
How to be
Having used You Tube on a daily basis, I thought it would be interesting to explore and contrast fellow video sharing platform Vimeo. People had sent me links to Vimeo before, but I’d always found the site intimidating to navigate and understand, so it was finally time to put on my big girl pants and … Continue reading How to be →