Digital Literacy

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'.

Project Digidol aims to embed processes and practices that enable the development of Digital Literacy in all staff and students across all areas and levels of the (Cardiff) University. It is understood that this will be as much about changing attitudes and beliefs, as it will be about realising practical knowledge and skills. Organisational change and effective change management will be key aspects of the project.

ISC has recently funded a £1,5 million Developing Digital Literacies programme which runs from July 2011 to July 2013, with benefits realisation activities continuing until the end of December 2013. The aim of the programme is to promote the development of coherent, inclusive and holistic institutional strategies and organisational approaches for developing digital literacies for all staff and students in UK further and higher education. To inform the development of this programme, JISC commissioned Helen Beetham to conduct a Review and scoping study. The review describes work that has already been funded by JISC and its partner agencies in the area of digital literacy, and the context in which this work is taking place.

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.

From the outset, the PriDE project will be interested in exploring what it means to be 'digitally literate' within the subject disciplines. The Faculty Learning Communities will this discuss this idea in their creative think tank sessions with the aim of articulating a digital literacy statement. These statements will then be shared with the wider community on this blog as one of the project outputs. In time, these statements will be joined by a list of Faculty digital literacy attributes and, potentially, some more specific lists of attributes for particular stakeholder groups - learners, academics, support staff.

Literacy today depends on understanding the multiple media that make up our high-tech reality and developing the skills to use them effectively. A 2006 article from Educause Quarterly Magazine

EG case study on the effective use of mobile technologies in an ACL context.

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

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 SAILS test offers universities and colleges a method for testing the information literacy skills of its students.

UBLIN, Ohio, USA, 12 June 2012-JISC, the UK's expert on information and digital technologies for education and research, has agreed to continue funding a third phase of "Visitors and Residents: What Motivates Engagement with the Digital Information Environment?" a UK-US partnership between the University of Oxford and OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., in collaboration with the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. The project is led by David S. White (U. Oxford-TALL), and Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph.D. (OCLC Research).