One of my favourite things about holidays is the opportunity to focus on wellbeing. A couple of weeks away gives you plenty of time to stop and take stock.
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Category Archives: Social Media
What happens when you deactivate your social media?
We’ve all either done it or considered doing it at some point.
Like real life relationships, our relationship with social media changes over time. People in our networks come and go; the platforms themselves evolve, along with our reasons for engaging with them.
But what happens when you deactivate your social media?
Continue readingApproaching digital wellbeing through the lens of social pedagogy
Wellbeing is on everyone’s radar at the moment.
The coronavirus has brought wellbeing under the spotlight, but why does it take a pandemic for us to start taking note of our wellbeing? Continue reading
Dealing with Trolls – anonymous or otherwise
I stumbled on an old article Dealing with Trolls in The Guardian whilst browsing my Twitter feed recently. It’s a good read and provides sound advice on dealing with internet Trolls, but that’s not why it sparked my interest.
The article dates back to 2012.
Yes – 2012, and is still no less relevant in 2020. Continue reading
How much is too much?
I’m not talking about hot n’ spicy pizza (I have no limits on that score) – I’m talking about screen time. Continue reading
How do you achieve the right balance of digital downtime?
“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
Automated tweets that “Prepare you for OBLIVION!”
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
Amplifying events through social media
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
What’s in a name?
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
Activities to promote e-safety
Promoting e-safety in the Further Education and Skills sector can be a bit of a tightrope walk – you’re caught between ensuring the wellbeing of your learners and allowing them the freedom of expression and experimentation in online spaces that allow them to learn and develop as individuals. Continue reading
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