This last task, we have been asked to reflect on the course as a whiole. As I come to the end of this 23Things course, which I have done mainly on Saturdays and Sundays when I've been at home, I've really enjoyed thinking about and exploring various new tools and things I wanted to try for [...]
So it's the last week of 23Things and this week we are asked to try out fun and playful apps. So I decided to signup for Snap chat, I hear it's what all the young people are into nowadays. I have to say, maybe because I'm not quite the demographic of this app, but I [...]
Games in education is nothing new, teachers have been using paper, card, glue etc and creating many games, but what I liked about both Kahoot and National Museum of Scotland Games (Wind Farm) I played today was how many quick and easy platforms are half-ready for teachers to pick, adapt and use in the classroom with [...]
Thing 20 is asking me to look at LinkedIn, Academia.edu and ResearchGate. As an active user of LinkedIn and with accounts of the other two, I've already explored this area in great depth. I included these three sites in a Social Media at Work e-Learning package I produced when I worked at Imperial College London. [...]
This week we are being asked to look at Altmetrics. I have heard about this in recent weeks, so it was a good exercise to install the app in the browser and test it out. I found an article from Nature: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v482/n7383/full/482027a.html and clicked on the Altmetric it bookmarklet, which resulted in this page: https://www.altmetric.com/details/585373?src=bookmarklet. I like [...]
So the next of Week 9's tasks are Augmented and Virtual Reality. I know how expensive and complex Virtual Reality can be, so it's nice to explore apps with a strong educational purpose and that are free. I played with Anatomy 4D a little. I like the augmented reality aspect of it and the layers you can [...]
I have to say I had not really explored the possibilities of Geolocation tools. Essentially we all have a GPS enabled device in our pocket (or and it's a Computer more powerful than what they used to send man on the moon!), your mobile phone! This GPS location, accurate information can be used to play [...]
I used to be a very big user of Evernote, but recently due to Evernote changes, I migrated my notes to OneNote. For a 'free' tool, it's very good, I use it every day in meetings and at my desk at work, on my PC at home, on my phone and tablet as an App. [...]
This week is a case of 'money for old rope' as the saying goes. I first used Storify in June, when I created my first one for the 8th Learning at City Conference (City University's Annual Learning and Teaching Conference). I found it very easy to use, it's a quick way to tell the story [...]
We have had sound since Radio back in the 1920s, the podcast is the modern equivalent of this, with the ability to listen in your own time to topics of interest to you. Something I have been listening to on and off is the EdTech Podcast by Sophie Bailey, this is one of the podcasts (on the [...]
