“That’s the problem with the digital age – everyone expects you to be on demand all the time.”
I didn’t say that, but I nodded in agreement as the passenger on the train sat next to me did. Continue reading
Sometimes my job genuinely makes me want to cry.
I’ve been working in Birmingham all week with students going through a design sprint to launch potential new tech products. It’s been both tiring and rewarding as we’ve covered so much over such a short time. What has really been inspiring has been to see their ideas evolve and take shape. Continue reading
Last week Apple proposed a suite of new “accessibility emojis” to the Unicode Consortium, which sparked a water cooler chat in our team. Continue reading
One of my pet hates are automated tweets.
They dehumanise Twitter. When I interact with someone on Twitter I want to know there’s an authentic human voice at the other end of the conversation. Not a bot that is responding with pre-programmed tweets that have about as much interest for me as whether or not the UK will win the next Eurovision Song contest (spoiler alert – we won’t…). Continue reading
As free screencasting tools go, Screencast-O-Matic is my favourite. It features as number 27 in the Top 100 Tools for Learning poll of 2015 and is an easy way to create fairly short screencasts (15 minutes or less) to help reinforce key topics with learners. If you haven’t done one before a screencast is typically a video recording of all, or part, of your screen that’s accompanied by an audio or video narration. It’s ideal for demonstrating what you are doing on your computer, such as a software demo or web search, a presentation run-through or is even being used by some organisations as a means of providing formative and summative feedback to learners. Continue reading
How can social media be put to good effect to amplify events?
This year Jisc held its annual Digifest in Birmingham (#Digifest17) and the Subject Specialist team were working hard behind the scenes to ensure the event trended on social media and reached out to those ‘attending’ the event virtually, as well as complementing the activities for those physically present over the two days. Continue reading
Finding quality images that are also free-to-use for that all important presentation can be a time consuming process, so here are my top seven sites for saving time on finding that perfect image. Continue reading
My mother bought an iPad recently.
I know – there’s nothing ground breaking about that. According to recent estimates Apple have sold over 360 million since 2010.
Did I say my mother is also in her seventies and that she has never really experienced the internet first-hand before? Continue reading
What’s in a name? As the Bard once said.
Well, quite a lot really, and the way we name and describe ourselves online can be a soul searching exercise. What to say? What not to say? How to condense it into 160 characters and so on. Continue reading
Scott's Unfinished Pictures 