Posts made in September, 2013

Squared Online – My Digital World As part of the course we were set the task of creating a PowerPoint slide to depict a day in our Digital Life. My submission for the Digital Slice is below, enjoy      ...

Squared Online – Get Social The focus of the lesson tonight was to get everyone thinking about how they interact with social media. To reflect on social and how we connect or engage with others in the new digital age. It’s all about the engagement! What platforms we use and what we use them for. Some of the questions raised were, what are the brands using the social platforms for? What do they want? We had TONS of...

Squared Online – Neil Perkins Presentation The video presentation from Neil Perkins was great! Neil started with an interactive short history of how long some of the tech we use every day and take for granted. I had pen and pad at the ready on noted some of the historic moments in our tech history. 1971 – 1st email was sent using ARPANET, the predecessor of what we know today as the Internet. 1978 – 1st email spam...

Grand Theft Auto V PC version one person can make a difference and everyone should try   An avid PC gamer since the dawn of the PC gaming I am very disappointed to hear that fellow PC gamers would not be seeing the latest 18 rated title from Rockstar, Grand Theft Auto V. It never even occurred to me that it wouldn’t be available for PC. My sons had been going on about it on XBox (yuck) the past few weeks, we assumed...

Squared Online – My Digital Life Somewhat relieved that we don’t need our web cam for the Squared Online lessons I waited in anticipation for our 2nd more in-depth lesson. The lesson involved looking at how we used technology in our daily lives. The intention was to get everyone thinking on how we use tech today and how we might use it tomorrow. The lesson outcome was to get everyone thinking about how consumers use tech...