It’s hard to believe this is the final post in this series! For Thing 23, I will reflect on my previous posts and what I have learned. It has been 1244 days since I started this journey–my first post went up on 20 February 2019. Favourite pArts and Surprises I most enjoyed the parts of… Read more Thing 23: Reflection
Category: Life Online
Thing 22: Fun and Play
The penultimate Thing focuses on having fun in digital spaces and suggests playing around with apps like Just a Line, an app which allowed users to create and share video animations of simple drawings; Dubsmash, a lip-synching app, or Snapchat, a messaging app that focuses on sharing pictures or short videos which are promptly deleted… Read more Thing 22: Fun and Play
Thing 21: Online Games and Learning Tools
Gamification is a part of life and learning online. Adding elements of game-playing, such as earning rewards, competing with others, tracking progress, and exploring stories, to non-game situations, can make education more engaging and interactive. Thing 21 asks us to explore the work of online educational games, by choosing two from a list and interacting… Read more Thing 21: Online Games and Learning Tools
Thing 20: Professional Social Networks
It can be easy to forget how new professional social networking is. Consider the students who enter university at eighteen in the autumn of 2022. They were born in the year Facebook was launched! Most young people, in other words, have never experienced a world without the social internet. Most researchers, on other hand, are… Read more Thing 20: Professional Social Networks
Thing 14: Audio
Gentle reader, how are you doing? I hope you and yours are all healthy and safe. When I began this challenge in February 2019 I had no idea how much change lay ahead and how important digital means of learning and interacting would become. While lockdowns are shifting and changing around the world, it looks… Read more Thing 14: Audio
Thing 13: Video
Well, friends, the world sure looks different than it did when I last posted. These next two things (Thing 13 is video and Thing 14 is audio) are now incredibly topical as everyone who works in a university adjusts to teaching and learning online. For thing thirteen, we are asked to choose one of three… Read more Thing 13: Video
Thing 12: Open Educational Resources
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
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 10: Wikimedia
I am writing this post listening to the sound of Wikipedia being edited in real time. The one sound I never hear is silence, a powerful reminder of the site’s pervasiveness. The task of Thing 10 is to spend some time with Wikipedia by playing the Wikipedia Adventure Game, a tutorial designed to teach new… Read more Thing 10: Wikimedia
Thing 9: Google Hangouts / Collaborate Ultra
This post explores the use of two online platforms for meetings, teaching, and collaboration: Google Hangouts and Collaborate Ultra. My university seems to have an increasing focus on digital education as well as a growing provision of distance learning. However, neither of these tools are ones I have worked extensively with before in an educational… Read more Thing 9: Google Hangouts / Collaborate Ultra
Thing 8: Facebook
Intro: no More I last logged into my Facebook profile in December 2015. If not for that, I would probably be writing for the ‘intermediate’ strand of Thing 8. I was a member of Facebook groups, some personal and some professional, and had found the latter a useful way to find out about conferences,… Read more Thing 8: Facebook
Thing 7: Twitter
Chirp chirp, chirp chirp! Oh wait, not that kind of twittering. Other than the six months where I worked for the Leeds Humanities Research Institute as an administrative intern, I have never used twitter, though I occasionally gawk at the feeds of others. I will be following the strand of this post for those who… Read more Thing 7: Twitter