I started Edinburgh University’s 23 Things for Digital Knowledge around a year ago and I’ve found it really worthwhile. It’s a free course split into nice small chunks – or ‘Things’ – so it’s easy to pick up bit by bit when you have time. Most of the ‘Things’ I was vaguely aware of, so … Continue reading 23 Things reflection →

I think the 23 Things program from Edinburgh University has been helpful. It has introduced some new things (Altmetrics), reminded me of others (Geocaching), and let me delve deeper into things I already knew about but hadn’t tried before (Wikipedia editing). It has been nice to have a training that has been quick and completable … Continue reading 23 Things: Thing 23 – Reflection →

Thing 23 has asked us to reflect on our feeling about the course, and posed a series of questions for us to consider – my responses are below each question: Were there Things that you particularly enjoyed? Yes – I particularly enjoyed Thing 4 Digital Security, Thing 6 Accessibility and Thing 10 Wikimedia.  Was there … Continue reading →

I have had so much fun completing 23things and it has been quite an eye-opener for me. Before starting this journey I was convinced I would have at least heard of many of the tools to be used – surprisingly this was not the case. One of the things I particularly enjoyed was week three, looking … Continue reading Thing 23 – Reflection