“Everyone presents himself to the others and to himself, and sees himself in the mirrors of their judgements. The masks he then and thereafter presents to the world and its citizens are fashioned upon his anticipations of their judgements.”
Anselm Strauss, “Mirrors and Masks: the search for identity.” (1969) Continue reading
Don’t get me wrong, Facebook has its uses, but if someone were to say it provides an excellent platform for serious debate I would disagree and, perhaps, snigger, knowing full well how the vast majority of my friends use it – and probably yours too. Continue reading
Displaying live tweets at events is becoming more and more commonplace, so I thought I’d take this opportunity to review some of the websites available that allow you to do this. Continue reading
Libraries – this one’s for you. Continue reading
Like many who dabble with social media, when people ask me why I use a particular site I usually find myself encouraging them to start exploring the site for themselves. Continue reading
About a year ago, when I first began exploring how geocaching could be used in libraries, I started thinking of ways it could also be used to bring a fresh approach to learning, especially to the more marginal subjects being taught today. Continue reading
We’ve all been there – a ‘friend’ publishes an embarrassing photo of you on Facebook and it runs rampant through your networks like a virus, a tongue-in-cheek tweet intended as a direct message is accidentally sent as a public tweet on Twitter, much to your eternal shame (naming no politicians in particular…), or a Foursquare check-in during work hours is taken completely out of context and your career is in ruins. Continue reading
I appreciate the term ‘digital natives’ is not new – in fact, it was coined about ten years ago now by Marc Prensky who wrote about the idea in Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants, but a recent study carried out by the Open University has shed new light on the debate challenging the perceptions/misperceptions about the idea of digital natives. Continue reading
