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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.

"The 5 Resources Model provides a framework to articulate the scope and dimensions of digital literacies. It is based on an established model of literacy which is underpinned by critical perspectives (the Four Resources Model of Critical Literacy, after Luke & Freebody). It has been adapted for the digital context."

Talking Ed's is a new electronic resource made by students for students. The resource is a friendly welcoming gateway for new students and their expectations of studying at Edinburgh.  

Digitally Ready is a JISC funded project, funded under the Developing Digital Literacies programme Our project will develop a holistic and inclusive approach drawing on both the strong history of successful JISC and general e-learning project delivery and harnessing our expertise, resources and evidence base to: * Baseline our digital competence, needs and desires using JISC audit tools;* Develop a strategy for the University of Reading to ensure all members of the University have the digital literacies for their current role and have access to resources to ensure they are Digitally Ready for their future and to better support the University's aims and objectives;* Develop change management processes to ensure realisation of the strategy;* Begin implementation of the strategy;* Document our methods so that they can be applied to other institutions and lead to further areas of study.

Digitally Ready is a JISC funded project, funded under the Developing Digital Literacies programme Our project will develop a holistic and inclusive approach drawing on both the strong history of successful JISC and general e-learning project delivery and harnessing our expertise, resources and evidence base to: * Baseline our digital competence, needs and desires using JISC audit tools;* Develop a strategy for the University of Reading to ensure all members of the University have the digital literacies for their current role and have access to resources to ensure they are Digitally Ready for their future and to better support the University's aims and objectives;* Develop change management processes to ensure realisation of the strategy;* Begin implementation of the strategy;* Document our methods so that they can be applied to other institutions and lead to further areas of study.

What Makes YouTube Unique - Basic facts and figures (40 minutes) - Teacher's Guide Lesson 1,Slides Lesson 1 Detecting Lies - (35 minutes) - Teacher's Guide Lesson 2, Slides Lesson 2 Safety Mode - (5 minutes) - Teacher's Guide Lesson 3, Slides Lesson 3 Online Reputation and Cyberbullying - (45 minutes) - Teacher's Guide Lesson 4, Slides Lesson 4 Policy - The Community Guidelines (20 minutes) - Teacher's Guide Lesson 5, Slides Lesson 5 Reporting content - Flagging (20 minutes) - Teacher's Guide Lesson 6, Slides Lesson 6 Privacy part 1 - (40 minutes) - Teacher's Guide Lesson 7, Slides Lesson 7 Privacy part 2 - (50 minutes) - Teacher's Guide Lesson 8, Slides Lesson 8 Copyright - (40 mins) - Teacher's Guide Lesson 9, Slides Lesson 9 Additional resources/Appendix including parent resources - Teacher's Guide Additional Materials, Slides Additional Materials

This resource is designed to support primary and secondary teachers to integrate the development of students' digital literacy into everyday learning. The materials, developed with primary and secondary school teachers as part of Futurelab's digital participation project, can be downloaded from our website.

JISC E- Safety Resources

Rutgers RIOT (Research Information Online Tutorial) Lessons in selecting  a topic, finding resources, selecting keywords, identifying citations and evaluating sources.

A nifty little quiz for developing search skills and you get a certificate. I've tweeted the link from the dig lit feed too :)

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

Librarians are key players and stakeholders in the My Learning Essentials skills support program, the University of Manchester's vehicle for supporting collaborative efforts between library staff, trainers, academics and others across the University. MLE is a blended program that combines an "open" strand of self-directed instruction through online resources and drop-in skills clinics with a "curriculum-linked" strand of class sessions and embedded instruction. Strong ties between those who create, deliver and support the MLE allow for continuous development of the program and support for students. Collaboration at the University of Manchester's Library is well thought-out and extensive, and takes place at every stage, from the design of the calendar of support for the year, to the end-of-term assessment of each strand.

Resources and tips to help teachers incorporate digital literacy skills into content area learning.

Useful resource on copyright, regularly updated

The free Creative Commons licenses can encourage the sharing of teaching and learning resources. 

A nice interactive tool explaining the key copyright issues around using particular resource types.

This calculator is designed to help users and organisations understand the level of copyright risk when publishing Open Educational Resources

The first in a series of little guides from JISC Digital Media. Also includes topics such as screencasting and finding digital resources.

Welcome to the Digital Literacy @ University of Worcester Blog This blog for Digital Literacy, bringing you interesting pieces of information encouraging all to join a community interested in discussing the impact technology is or might have on our lives whether we are students or staff. Exploring Open Education Resources - cost, quality, best practice frameworks.Running an annual survey for Digital Literacy (with a prize) to help us find out what you want, need and aspire to:Exploring social networking virtual worlds for administrative, teaching and communication affordances.Exploring online lunchtime seminars for staff.

The aim of this project is to produce an online module to support the use of OER materials that will focus of on the ways ICTs/digital technologies can support teaching, learning and administration. The OER that are created, collated and re-purposed will be made available through a creative commons licence. The OER (unit resources) can be used individually as well as accredited by universities in order to gain 30 M-level credits and can form an online module 'Digital Literacy and Creativity'.