Rachael Kinkead (18202251)

Coldwell-Neilson succinctly defines digital literacy as ‘the ability to identify and use technology confidently, creatively and critically to meet the demands and challenges of living, learning and working in a digital society’ (‘What does it mean to be digitally literate?’, 2020). I cannot say that I was particularly confident, creative or critical in my online […]

Admittedly, I had never previously read a privacy policy in full detail, so the task of reinventing such a document was initially quite daunting. However, once I had established my key questions, organising the relevant information became relatively straightforward. As has happened to some of my peers, this process genuinely altered my perception of social […]

Admittedly, I had no prior experience in screencasting before undertaking this assignment, so using Screencastomatic opened up my eyes to a whole new realm of possibilities. I was pleasantly surprised, like my peers, at how straightforward this process, including the uploading and editing in Youtube, was. I was impressed by how simply adding narration and […]

As the online world has become more saturated with information over time, I have found that my original system of bookmarking websites is no longer the optimum way of managing my information, and have availed of platforms such as Padlet or Symbaloo. Using Pocket, however, was a new experience for me. The concept of ‘captur[ing] […]

In light of some of my main points of learning since beginning this module, namely, the concept of the value-creation process, the power of micro-influencers, and the practices of community sourcing and multiple authorship in the communication of constantly-changing information, this first assignment- focused on blog publishing- has certainly broadened my experience and whetted my […]

Some of the major learning points for me in this module over the last three weeks have been the concept of the value-creation process, the power of micro-influencers, and the idea that information is constantly changing and requires an element of community sourcing and multiple authorship through the likes of Wikipedia. Words like sub-community, interconnection […]

As a primary school teacher, education blogs dedicated to the sharing of resources and expertise have enriched my teaching, not only by means of their wealth of innovative, concrete ideas for the classroom but, by simply opening my mind to new opinions and approaches. Admittedly, apart from a tentative weebly creation (http://exploreidentity.weebly.com/), I have hitherto […]