If you’ve watched all of my Youtube videos and STILL have nothing better to do, go to Google Hangouts, start a chat with anyone and type in /ponystream If it doesn’t make your mouth curl up at the sides just a tiny wee bit you are probably dead inside. I spotted a flaming pony, a … Continue reading Pony spotting →
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Thing 17 – Geo-location Tools
Go to Geocaching.com to learn more and try the app. See if you can locate a geocache in your area and share your adventure on your blog. OR Explore one of the other apps created at The University of Edinburgh and write about this on your blog. OR Share on your blog another geolocation app that…
Face away
Ah Facebook – I use you every day and yet I hate you. You play on my fear of missing out, yet cause me to miss out on the beauty of the real world. You have messed so badly with our News Feeds you expect us to make Groups to find out about the people … Continue reading Face away →
Raining cats and dogs
As a self confessed crazy cat lady, I was shocked to find the number one interest of my Twitter followers is… dogs. How can this be?! Isn’t sharing cat pictures the main point of Twitter? Does this mean we need to set up a new social media site? Having never knowingly posted anything about dogs … Continue reading Raining cats and dogs →
Gen Z
“80% of 13–20-year-olds, or “Gen Z”, believe that gender did not define a person as much as it used to… and only 44% always bought clothes designed for their own gender” https://uxdesign.cc/designing-forms-for-gender-diversity-and-inclusion-d8194cf1f51 I wish I could remember what I was buying online, something innocuous like a toaster, and when I went to fill in the … Continue reading Gen Z →
What’s in the name?
Thanks for checking out my new ‘blog, which I intend to use as a personal catalogue of my investigation of information management. It’s a surprisingly broad area, which was a bit of a surprise to me when I first started looking at it last year. People …
Thing 4: Digital Security
The fourth thing focuses on digital security through the lens of smartphones. This week , we are asked to read about smartphone security, explore what data the apps on our phones are sharing, and reflect on the result. What I found When I started looking at my phone, I expected to see relatively little data… Read more Thing 4: Digital Security
Avatars
I must admit I never really understood why we moved away from yellow faced emojis – isn’t it much better we escape judgments about skin colour for a while?! However, I did a squeal of joy when I heard there were emojis coming with ginger hair, and actually, I think I shed a tear of … Continue reading Avatars →
Online Diversity
I’m really struggling to write this section, not because I don’t understand the content or that I have nothing to say, it’s the absolute opposite. Diversity is something I am so incredibly passionate about that I could go on and on and on but this is about online diversity and emojis. I believe the more emojis … Continue reading Online Diversity →
Digital Security – How Secure?
My 4 year old decided to use my laptop as a trampoline when she was about 2, I’ve never had it fixed so all my online stuff is done via my phone or, occasionally, my Kindle. I’m fairly wary of sharing info accidentally, not quite tinfoil hat wary, but wary nonetheless. I regularly go and check … Continue reading Digital Security – How Secure? →
App-alling
During an exercise that seemed like a serious bit of work but felt a lot like procrastination I checked the app permissions on my phone. Like all of life’s great mysteries the more I probed the more I developed questions rather than answers: Why are 21 out of 45 apps using my camera? Why do … Continue reading App-alling →
Digital Footprint
So I seem to have been able to create a blog – who would’ve thunk it?! Next step, learn about my own personal digital footprint, I already knew what one of these was but hadn’t ever really bothered to have a look at my own, usually if I’m googling a ‘normal person’ it’s to check … Continue reading Digital Footprint →