Last night my 10-year-old brother Xavier was deleted from the Instagram world, by my mum. She’s really into abiding by the age requirements on social media and was less than pleased to find out Xavier had been posting selfies for… Continue Reading
Yesterday I finally decided it was about time I took all my photos from Italy and uploaded them onto my computer. As I mentioned briefly in a previous post, I spent the last uni break in Europe, mostly in Italy.… Continue Reading
Network Literacy: The New Path To Knowledge – Adrian Miles I remember seeing a tweet a while ago saying “It’s 2014 and I still don’t know what the hell RSS is”. It really spoke to me because its true, I… Continue Reading
So it’s time for another vlog (or video diary, whichever you prefer). This week wasn’t tooooo exciting if I’m honest, but I think I pulled together some clips which make my life seem a lot more adventurous than it actually… Continue Reading
I have always been pretty reluctant to accept the fact that one day I will be out of a school / learning environment, and instead be working and acting like an adult. Even in year 12 I handed my course… Continue Reading
So the readings for this week were based around the concept of copyright and ‘Creative Commons’ licensing, which to be honest, gave me horrible flashbacks to the written component of my year 12 studio arts exam. After scrolling through the… Continue Reading
In week 1’s lecture we were introduced to Blogging. Adrian spoke about how Networked media promotes tacit knowledge and leaning through participation. He discussed how blogging enables us to do exactly that through writing in such a personal way. The… Continue Reading
So the reading for week one was Adrian Miles’ Blogs in Media Education: A Beginning. As I have mentioned previously, I have always enjoyed blogging and this is due to a number of reasons that were also touched on in… Continue Reading
At work last night I was sitting down behind the computer. To customers looking to be served, I appeared to be answering emails or something equally as reasonable. However, like most shifts, I was actually perusing the internet. In… Continue Reading
We were asked in our first Tute to go home & answer the question ‘What does being speculative mean?’. My automatic reaction was to first approach the smartest thing /person I know, Google. According to the oxford dictionary being speculative… Continue Reading