Thing 19 ~ Podcasts I hear a lot about podcasts, but I’ve not really found myself drawn to listening to them. Well, that’s not strictly true. For years I’ve been listening to the In Our Time podcasts from BBC Radio 4; I love that for just 45 minutes I can feel as though I understand any subject, …
It’s been quite some time since I engaged with Rudai 23, essentially down to starting a new full time job; but the glorious snowy weather that even stretched as far as the south west means that today I’m catching up. And what a catch up it has been – soooo much information…. So Thing …
This post will cover Things 10, 11 and 12, all focussing on professional online networking. Thing 10 dealt with networking tools, and of those suggested I chose to concentrate on Twitter. I had set up Twitter accounts previously, for my businesses; rather than make another I chose to adapt one to fit. I changed …
This post will be a summary of ideas which relate to the module ‘Visual Communicator’: image banks; communicating visually; video presentations; and infographics. To be quite clear, before starting the Rudai 23 course I hadn’t had any cause to use any of these applications, and was barely aware of some of them. I had accessed …
Video Presentations. Not something I have any familiarity with. Again. But I had a quick play around, and produced one on Powtoons and one on Screencast-o-matic. I will confess, before I go any further, that I am not a fan of instructional videos; really, I can’t bear them. I will do anything to avoid watching one. …
Yet more new things for me to learn! I’ve not had any reason over the last few years to produce posters or images to convey a message – well, I possibly have, but I’d not thought about it, so for this task I fell back to my go-to topic, Cornish Folklore. In case you’re wondering, …
I’ve been a member of Flickr for years, but never really paid it much attention, and I’d never come across Pixabay, so getting started on Rudai 23’s Thing 3 project was a real eye-opener. As Flickr is the platform I’m familiar with, I started there. The idea of Creative Commons is also, I’m sorry to …
Meanwhile, back in the world of libraries and information management… Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, I was a librarian. A university librarian, then a further education college Assistant Learning Resource Centre Manager; they are, essentially, the same thing. I had degree in English Literature from Middlesex Poly (I told you it …