Find a podcast or a SoundCloud track (which could be music, a podcast, an interview, a reading, etc.) and share this on your blog with a short post about how podcasts or SoundCloud could be useful to you. I could spend a bit speculating about how podcasts COULD be useful to me, but instead I’ll…
Category: 23ThingsEdUni
Thing 13 – Video
Thing 13 takes a quick look at YouTube, Vimeo, and Media Hopper. I first started my YouTube account in my very first grad class, Video Design for Learning. It was a convenient way for me to share my work. I continued to use it through grad school. (I think the first assignment was to make…
Bonus Thing C
Have you or would you now consider creating and sharing any of your own materials as OER? Write an additional post sharing your own OER or reflecting on what OER you may/may not want to openly licence. This week’s things seem to be in my wheelhouse. As I mentioned previously, I first started learning about…
Thing 12 – OER
In hindsight I could have maybe written more in Thing 11, as I didn’t read ahead and made some assumptions about what would appear in Thing 12. I think the Bonus Thing C is more what I was expecting for Thing 12. Anyway, for this Thing, we’ve been asked to: Step 1 Explore Open.Ed and the Edinburgh…
Thing 11 – Copyright
I first encountered the idea of Creative Commons at the end of my B.Ed program, and deeper dive into it in one or two of my M.Ed program courses. I have attended workshops, courses, conferences, etc. and even delivered training and written online course notes about Creative Commons licensing. I also managed all of the…
Thing 9 – Web Conferencing
Thing 9 in 23ThingsEdUni is actually titled Google Hangouts / Collaborate Ultra. Video/web conferencing software has been a bit of a crap shoot in my experience. I have experience with Blackboard’s Elluminate (back in the day as a student), Collaborate (as a participant as far back as ETMOOC), Adobe Connect (branded as eClass Live!), and…
Thing 10 – Wikimedia
All through high school and college, Wikipedia was my most-used resource to gather general information on any topic I planned on researching. I did not want to set-up a Wikipedia account, but upon further reading I learned that Wikipedia offered a number of other open knowledge projects: I was amazed by all of the information … Continue reading Thing 10 – Wikimedia →
Thing 9 – Collaborate Ultra
Through my studies at the University of Edinburgh I have been given the chance to work with, and within, Collaborate. As an online student, being able to connect with my classmates and professors is an invaluable resource. Working through a master’s program with little to no contact with the university is a lonely, and often … Continue reading Thing 9 – Collaborate Ultra →
Thing 8 – Facebook
Like many people my age, I’ve had a Facebook profile for many years. Over that time I became more aware of the array of features that Facebook offers its users. One of these features is Facebook Groups. Since graduation, I have used Facebook Groups for a number of reasons, both professional and personal. One of … Continue reading Thing 8 – Facebook →
Thing 7 – Twitter
As I do not have a Twitter account, I opted to see what I could find without opening an account. I was surprised to see that I was able to access a great deal of this social media platform without a username. I’m not sure if this is something they have changed recently, but the … Continue reading Thing 7 – Twitter →
Thing 8 – Facebook
Had I taken up this 23 Things challenge a year ago, I could have done the Intermediate stream for thing 8. Last spring I deactivated my Facebook account, keeping FB messenger available. A lot of people didn’t know you could do that. There were a lot of reasons I wanted to leave Facebook, from getting…
Thing 6 – Accessibility
This was an interesting topic for me to dive into because accessibility is something I didn’t realize I think about constantly. While there is nothing keeping me from accessing most websites and interfaces, some are definitely much more user friendly than others. As an iPhone user, I have the hardest time using my husband’s Android … Continue reading Thing 6 – Accessibility →