Thing 5 asks you to consider the impact of diverse representation via the emojis we all know and love. I wrote a blog about the impact of emoji’s taking over how we write things, certainly in a colloquial manner. I remember when it was in the news not so long ago, regarding the ability to […]
Tag: blogging
Thing 4
Thing 4 requires you to consider the data you share with the apps on your mobile and tablet devices. I was encouraged to download an app and then have a look through the list of permissions each of my apps have. Some want to know your exact GPS location, which is understandable for apps such […]
Thing 3
A couple of the tasks for an online course I’m currently undertaking, involves me searching for my digital footprint. This is basically where things you’ve written or put on the internet, no matter when or where, will leave a footprint of your online, digital life as they are seldom erased. I’ve always tried hard to […]
Digital Knowledge: Thing 2 – Blogging
Onto Thing 2! Oh the joy of MOOCs at the start!
I don’t have access to Lynda.com but this is the second time in a week that I’ve heard about it. I must pass it onto our team for continuing personal and professional development (CPPD).
I hope to brush up on existing skills and learn some new ones which I may use personally or use immediately in a work context or ponder for a while so that I can use it in a year’s time in a work context.
Thing 2: Blogging
I like blogging and have a few different blogs on the go although I’m better at contributing to The River-side, my work blog, than I am to any of the three personal ones I have! Oops!
I’ve blogged about:
What I’ve seen or done is a way of incorporating reflective practice into my professional life https://thoughtswalkerabroad.wordpress.com/
Events in order to help me remember them more clearly in the future
I also blog as a way to test out different apps and I give myself 30 days to try the app! http://cloudwalkerabroad.tumblr.com/
Blogging Platforms
I’ve had this blog on Blogger for quite a while but I use Wordpress at work and the Tumblr guide would have been very handy when I started that blog!
I knew I’d heard of PebblePad before but couldn’t remember when. A search for UCC and PebblePad on what but Google brought me to a news item for its use with the School of Pharmacy. Last year one of my group had described its use on an online forum for the course on teaching & learning in higher education.
Some browsing on the pages for it on the University of Edinburgh website made me wonder how it could be adapted for modules that use Special Collections or for staff as a way to track their own courses. Hmm!
“Use PebblePad in facilitated teaching, learning, and personal development contexts. As the facilitator, you can create custom resources for learners to use and submit for your feedback. You can promote continual engagement from learners by releasing new content at set times – and learners’ additions and changes will filter through to you until the date and time you choose.”
Plenty of things to consider for how it may be used!
One more thing to go back to the CPPD team!
Digital Knowledge: Thing 2 – Blogging
Onto Thing 2! Oh the joy of MOOCs at the start!
I don’t have access to Lynda.com but this is the second time in a week that I’ve heard about it. I must pass it onto our team for continuing personal and professional development (CPPD).
I hope to brush up on existing skills and learn some new ones which I may use personally or use immediately in a work context or ponder for a while so that I can use it in a year’s time in a work context.
Thing 2: Blogging
I like blogging and have a few different blogs on the go although I’m better at contributing to The River-side, my work blog, than I am to any of the three personal ones I have! Oops!
I’ve blogged about:
What I’ve seen or done is a way of incorporating reflective practice into my professional life https://thoughtswalkerabroad.wordpress.com/
Events in order to help me remember them more clearly in the future
I also blog as a way to test out different apps and I give myself 30 days to try the app! http://cloudwalkerabroad.tumblr.com/
Blogging Platforms
I’ve had this blog on Blogger for quite a while but I use Wordpress at work and the Tumblr guide would have been very handy when I started that blog!
I knew I’d heard of PebblePad before but couldn’t remember when. A search for UCC and PebblePad on what but Google brought me to a news item for its use with the School of Pharmacy. Last year one of my group had described its use on an online forum for the course on teaching & learning in higher education.
Some browsing on the pages for it on the University of Edinburgh website made me wonder how it could be adapted for modules that use Special Collections or for staff as a way to track their own courses. Hmm!
“Use PebblePad in facilitated teaching, learning, and personal development contexts. As the facilitator, you can create custom resources for learners to use and submit for your feedback. You can promote continual engagement from learners by releasing new content at set times – and learners’ additions and changes will filter through to you until the date and time you choose.”
Plenty of things to consider for how it may be used!
One more thing to go back to the CPPD team!
Another fine 23 Things to get into
Last week after our DS106 Good Spell broadcast Mariana told me about 23 Things. This looks like an interesting course for Edinburgh University students, staff and anyone with access to the internet. I had a quick look at the list of things covered in the course 23 Things List – 23 Things. These look interesting […]
Thing 1 & 2: 23 Things for Digital Knowledge
My manager came across a course ran by the University of Edinburgh called “23 Things for Digital Knowledge” and felt it was something I could do for personal development (my role, like so many these days, is leaning towards more digital output). It is a step-by-step programme, mainly aimed at their own staff and students (but […]
Thing 1 & 2: Introduction and Blogging
Things 1 & 2 will introduce you to the programme and ask you to set up a blog to share your 23 Things experience.
Rud 2: Actual Blogging
Seven Questions
Chosen celebrity: Neil Armstrong
This challenge would be pretty much impossible as Neil Armstrong was notorious for rarely doing interviews. Still…
- Why did you decide to become an astronaut?
- Is there a particular skill set required? Being a pilot already?
- In Chris Hadfield’s autobiography An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth he talks about thinking like an astronaut. What is thinking like an astronaut?
- If you couldn’t have been an astronaut what would you have done?
- …..
- …..
- …..
This is no good! I can’t think of Q5 – 7. We’ll just pretend that that’s when I was awestruck and said ‘um’ a lot!
How did I start in libraries?
I had to wait until I was seven and my sister could read and then we both joined the library. For years we both went once a week usually after we had done the food shopping with our Dad. After a while I stopped reading children’s fiction, YA wasn’t there then, and I moved to the grown-ups’ section. There I read mostly genre fiction: crime and science fiction.
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| White, James. Star Surgeon. UCC Library. |
Undergrad Done
When I finished my undergrad someone said to me “Would you like to work in a library?” and I said “No, I think those people are boring!” Later I would become a student shelver in the library and I realised that I had miscalculated. I really enjoyed working in the library and I still know the Dewey classification scheme well for the sciences and engineering. Super useful at quizzes!
Onto the Library
I started looking into working in a library, any library really, I did a few interviews and waited for places to get back to me. This was during the Celtic Tiger when panels were formed and it might be a year before they’d get back to you. I started working in UCC Library 19th June 2006 – some days you don’t forget. I remember wearing pink shoes (do I even own pink shoes now??) and they weren’t comfy by day’s end!
Over the last nine years I’ve always worked on front-line services: Customer Services, InterLibrary Loan, Health Sciences Customer Services and Information Desk, and Special Collections. In November 2012 I started working as the Special Collections Librarian in UCC and now I don’t work as much on the front-line. Instead I’m working on exhibitions, collection development and organisation, promotion of collections through blogging, and information literacy classes.
Actual Blogging
Anyone who works in library land may be annoyed, read will be annoyed, at some point that all other people think we do is read all day at work because we like to read. Sure, I like to read and I have read at work but then that’s part of the job too. I’m doing this post at work as it’s part of CPD. I can’t magically move the information into my head without reading it. The ‘fun’ reading of genre fiction however, well that has to stay outside of work. There are limits!
References
White, James. Star Surgeon. London: Corgi, 1967.
Return to the musings …
This blog has been badly neglected. Partly due to the fact that I had to run a Tumblr blog as part of a module I participated in, called ‘Web Media’.Studying on this module was a mixed experience. The good aspect (apart from being allowed to be a…
Return to the musings …
This blog has been badly neglected. Partly due to the fact that I had to run a Tumblr blog as part of a module I participated in, called ‘Web Media’.Studying on this module was a mixed experience. The good aspect (apart from being allowed to be a…