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The Boston Marathon bombings showcased Twitter as a source for real-time citizen engagement between authorities and the public. When the Boston police Twitter handle, @Boston_Police, announced, "CAPTURED!!! The Hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And Justice has won. Suspect in custody," the city of Boston and the watching world took a deep sigh of relief after following the 48-hour search for bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev online in real time.

A checklist for cleaning up your digital footprint (via @stephenbalkam) 

interesting, people do take the footprint stuff seriously now.

The Skills Hub is an open access resource containing videos, guides, interactive tutorials and blog posts covering core academic skills areas at an array of levels. It is for use by students, schools, researchers and the community. The creator of the resource just won a national award for the project.

The Skills Hub is an open access resource containing videos, guides, interactive tutorials and blog posts covering core academic skills areas at an array of levels. It is for use by students, schools, researchers and the community. The creator of the resource just won a national award for the project.

Interesting post Deborah, I will "Scoop.it. Good to see the comparisons with "everyday life"

Portal to collection of OERs to support research students, teachers and others to develop Digital Literacies, online academic identity etc. The material that you can access through this website is intended to help you prepare yourself for study on a research degree at a UK university.

Thanks Rosemary - this is a really useful site and covers many of the areas we've been looking at :)

A film outlining the use of film technology in university teaching by Dr Jon Anderson, Cardiff University in the School of City and Regional Planning

Really useful guide for staff and learners to check their various digital identities in order to encourage a 'spring clean' in light of the increasing trend of employer's carrying out social media background checks on employees and potential employees. The guide would be a useful activity for internal staff development and awareness raising.

The SLIDA report has recommendations for further and higher education on how to develop effective institution-wide strategies and practices which better support effective learners in a digital age. A number of case studies are included from both FE and HE institutions.

is a 3 hour self paced class combined with a performance assessment of your information fluency skills

"Despite the growing interest in digital literacy within educational policy, guidance for secondary educators in terms of how digital literacy translates into the classroom is lacking. As a result, many teachers feel ill-prepared to support their learners in using technology effectively. The DigiLit Leicester project created an infrastructure for holistic, integrated change, by supporting staff development in the area of digital literacy for secondary school teachers and teaching support staff. "

 Information and digital literacy skills support at LSE:reviewing provision for undergraduates using ANCIL Jane Secker & Maria Bell...

A Lancaster University student looks at the pros and cons of Wikipedia in the Guardian. Includes extracts from interviews with two Lancaster academics.

"digital literacy is not simply about learning from content online this represents a deficit model of education (frequently practiced) rather than skills development. "

Plagiarism is using others' ideas and words without clearly acknowledging the source of that information. The World Wide Web has become a more popular source of information for student papers, and many questions have arisen about how to avoid plagiarizing these sources.

e-Crime Wales is a partnership of organisations and agencies committed to equipping Welsh businesses with the knowledge and tools to be aware, vigilant, informed and ultimately safe from the destructive effects of e-Crime in all its forms. 

We have created a Digital Literacies Toolkit aimed at helping students explore the educational uses of Web 2.0 tools and develop good practice in the use of social software and the internet. It's open to all to use

This is very useful for reviewing your online practises and the privacy settings on a range of sites.

High school and college students may be "digital natives," but they're wretched at searching. In a recent experiment at Northwestern, when 102 undergraduates were asked to do some research online, none went to the trouble of checking the authors' credentials. In 1955, we wondered why Johnny can't read. Today the question is, why can't Johnny search?

Worcester College of Technology is coming to the end of a two year project where we have been researching digital literacy skills in our students and teachers and develop resources to improve digital literacy. One of the main outputs of this project are 2 OCN level 2 Qualifications. These are *Blended Online Learning Delivery (BOLD) is aimed at teachers, and consists of three individual level 2 units building to 3 credits for the qualification. *Online Skills for Learners (OSL) is aimed at students, and also consists of three individual level 2 units building to 3 credits for the qualification. We have built Moodle courses for each of these units which we are sharing freely under creative commons licence. If you are interested in finding out more about this please visit our Digital Literacy Moodle at http://diglit.wortech.ac.uk and set up your own account to gain access. At this site you will be able to view, and if you wish download the courses to install on your own Moodles, as well as find out more about how we have developed digital literacy and blended learning at Worcester College of Technology

A series of 2-10 minute activities including Xerte objects, videos and podcasts covering Creating, Finding & Using information and Workplace skills