Thanks to 23Things, now I know that Wikimedia has many projects. Among all projects, I was interested in Wikimedia Commons. I think this resource will be handy if I want to find free images or any media files for blogging, making slides for presentations, etc. I tried to search “nurses” and look what I found,… Continue Reading →
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23 Things – Thing 15 – Digital Curation: Tumblr
Today for 23 Things I dove into the world of Tumblr, a world I had never previously visited. I decided to look for pages (channels? I’m not sure what to call them) relating to Digital Skills, this being the area I work in. Surprisingly there were very few results & it did not suggest other, … Continue reading 23 Things – Thing 15 – Digital Curation: Tumblr →
Thing 9: Collaborate Ultra
I’ve been both a participant and a moderator in Collaborate Ultra sessions. My experience being a participant is when I attended the online IAD workshop about ‘Engaging students in an online environment’ delivered via Collaborate Ultra. My first thought was that Collaborate Ultra was similar to Youtube that we could watch live video and had… Continue Reading →
23 Things – Thing 14 – Audio – Podcasts
As an Android user I’m a big fan of the Podcast Addict app. I use podcasts mainly as a way of learning about subjects I’m interested in and for entertainment purposes. They’re a great way to pass the time while commuting and I’ve been accompanied on many a road trip by my favourite podcasts. They’re … Continue reading 23 Things – Thing 14 – Audio – Podcasts →
23 Things – Thing 13 – Video – Vimeo
It’s amazing that you can use a software quite regularly but not really know how to use it or the capabilities that it has? This is where I’m at with the video sharing site, Vimeo. I have created 7 videos and uploaded to Vimeo in the past but until I watched the Lynda.com Vimeo tutorial … Continue reading 23 Things – Thing 13 – Video – Vimeo →
Thing 8: Facebook
I decided to stop using Facebook months before its scandal involving user data. So I won’t discuss the scandal here, but I rather explain why I don’t use facebook anymore. The main reason is that I spent too much time Facebooking! Before quitting, I was convincing myself that Facebook was necessary to keep in touch… Continue Reading →
23 Things – Thing 12 – Open Educational Resources
Thing 12 – Open Educational Resources (OERs), appears to be a topic I need to build my knowledge on. I have used the Open.Ed Media Hopper Channel and Open.Ed website briefly in the past but OERs are definitely not my specialist subject. I found many interesting videos and content while scrolling through the subjects in … Continue reading 23 Things – Thing 12 – Open Educational Resources →
Thing 7: Twitter
I have been a Twitter user for a long time but I never use any management tools for my account. I took the opportunity of Thing 7 to explore Analytics and TweetDeck. It’s very impressive to see that almost a thousand of people have read my last tweet but the engagement rate was only 1%! I’m also… Continue Reading →
Thing 6: Accessibility
After reading the stories of web users and the article by Sabrina Fonesca for Thing 6, I came to realise that I used to take for granted the visual appearance of a website. I thought it would be fine as long as the colours used were not green or red. But accessibility encompasses more dimensions other… Continue Reading →
Thing 5: Diversity
Thing 5 reminds me of The Emoji Movie where there’s a princess emoji wanting to be herself and used a baseball cap instead of a crown. I never really thought that emojis could be related to diversity issue. This perhaps related to my preference to use the yellow round faces and things instead of gender-specific faces, etc…. Continue Reading →
Thing 4: Digital Security
Digital security and privacy of my mobile phone have been brought to my attention even before learning Thing 4. My reason is that I feel weird if any application can access my location even though I’m not using it. So in my mobile phone setting, I always select ‘while using’ option. After I downloaded the app MyPermissions Privacy Cleaner… Continue Reading →
23 Things – Thing 11 – Copyright
This week’s thing – Thing 11 – was very interesting. I was aware of copyright to the extent that I know to make sure images/videos I use have the correct licence so that I’m not breaching any licences. However, I didn’t know that copyright applied automatically and that it had the same protection whether or … Continue reading 23 Things – Thing 11 – Copyright →