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

The Digitally Ready team recently invited staff and students to a workshop to explore and reflect on their own digital literacies. We asked people to feedback from their groups and their own personal reflections about access to facilities, their digital skills or lack of them, what they do and don't do in practice. Emerging trends suggest that although basic needs are robustly fulfilled - hardware, software and a good network - the overriding message is that most people feel they do not have adequate time to develop and discover how new technologies can be useful and relevant to them. Some people seem unaware of what is currently available and where they can go for help. It was suggested that colleagues who share best practice provide a powerful trigger for others to invest time in personal development. We finally asked people to complete 'To become more digitally ready, I will…….'

The campaign aims to raise awareness about managing an online presence (digital footprint). There will be various activities, workshops, resources and advice throughout 2014-2015, which will focus on how to create and manage a positive digital footprint, which could assist with: professional networking finding the right job collaborating with others keeping safe online managing your privacy and the privacy of others During ILW (16-20 Feb), there will be a question each day on the topic of social media/digital footprint.