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 →

Thing 22 is entitled fun and play – not so much fun if you’re coming up against a deadline…..!!!! I was in a real quandary on what to pick for this given that I don’t see the point of learning anything about Vine given that it’s about to be closed by it’s owner Twitter, and … Continue reading →

For Thing 21 I tried both Kahoot and Hour of Code. Kahoot initially appealed to me because I’m a big fan of quizzes of all kinds, on and offline. I have to say it took a bit of getting used to, what with the two website set-up – trying to operate it in the same … Continue reading →

I wasn’t entirely sure where to begin with Thing 20 which asked us to: Choose one of either LinkedIn, Academia.edu, or ResearchGate and have a look at their websites as a potential user.Reflect in your blog on the merit, or not, of professional social networking platforms for you at this stage in your education/career. Have … Continue reading →

I’ve been looking forward to this particular Thing for a while given that it is of relatively direct relevance to my area of work – measuring the impact of research output like journal articles and books. My work is involved with making resources like this available to the University of Edinburgh community. This look at … Continue reading →

Thing 18 asked us to “try playing around with one or more of the Augmented and Virtual Reality tools and share your experience on your blog”. I decided to with the Anatomy 4D which promises to “use a combination of posters that can be freely printed and the app to provide students with a 4D … Continue reading →

Thing 17 required us to explore geolocation tools. From a work point of view such tools are unnecessary as I have no need to locate anything anywhere. However, as this work week has been particularly stressful, I decided to combine a lunch hour away from my desk with an exploration of Geocaching in the locality … Continue reading →

I’ve had a little experience with note taking tools, most notably (sorry!!) EverNote, but like a lot of these tools the fad passed and it fell into disuse. Just as a reminder, and before I tried OneNote, I logged into my EverNote account and messed around to remind myself of what a note taking tool could … Continue reading →

Thing 15 asked us to “locate a Tumblr blog in your field or hobby of interest and share this on your blog” – here are some of the Tumblr blogs I found: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) – http://oupacademic.tumblr.com/ – a very active blog! Northwestern University Press – http://northwesternup.tumblr.com/ Duke University Press – http://dukeupress.tumblr.com/ – appears … Continue reading →

The task for Thing 14 was to: 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. Combining the two aspects of the task, I decided to go looking … Continue reading →

Whilst I’ve already posted for Thing 13, on YouTube, I spent some time reflecting on several differences in Vimeo as compared to YouTube that I thought were worth another post. A sample Vimeo video is above, this time on a work related topic – who knew that such things were available!! Vimeo appears equally easy to use as … Continue reading →

Whilst I’ve already posted for Thing 13, on YouTube, I spent some time reflecting on several differences in Vimeo as compared to YouTube that I thought were worth another post. A sample Vimeo video is above, this time on a work related topic – who knew that such things were available!! Vimeo appears equally easy to use as … Continue reading →