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 …
Category: Digital Knowledge
Thing 8 – Facebook
Around the world more than 1.62 billion people log onto the social media platform Facebook on a daily basis (I have to admit to being one of those Facebook fans), and 5 new Facebook profiles are created every second (Zephoria Digital Marketing, October 2019). Thing 8 explores some aspects of this highly popular social media …
Thing 7 – Twitter
With so many social media platforms to choose from it is hard to find enough hours in the day to be ‘social’. I tend to stick with one or two platforms, and while I do have a Twitter account, I use it more as a quick source of information (current events, news updates) rather than …
Thing 6 -Accessibility
Do you have trouble accessing information on the web? Thing 6 discusses how the internet can make information inclusive and accessible, and conversely, the factors and barriers which decrease accessibility. There is some amazing technology available to assist users to access internet content (text to speech translators is one example), but these can only assist …
Thing 4 – Digital Security
I don’t know about you, but I’m fairly reliant upon my smartphone. Communication device, calendar, GPS, camera…the only thing it can’t do (yet) is make me a coffee.(Although it can order and pay for one from my favourite café before I even enter the shop!) Technology is great, but just how much of our personal …
Thing 1 & Thing 2
Thing 1 and Thing 2 from the
23 Things for Digital Knowledge Course.