Digital Literacy Resources for Waikato University Staff

A summary of current work on the new Six Elements of DL Framework by Helen Beetham.

Audrey Watters on blocking trolls.

The iChamp programme at Southampton which engages students in a partnership with staff to develop digital skills. Not a tech angels approach.

See who's tracking you online - well the corporate sector.

"You've all heard there's no such thing as bad publicity. On the internet this is doubly true. When you link to a website - regardless of the reason - this strengthens its position in search engines. This means that a bad review of a website makes it more popular. When you are discussing or alerting others to a website that promotes a fraud, scam, cult or other questionable business and you link to that site, search engines will (after a while) improve the offending site's rank. Therefore, more people will find these shady websites, and will be exposed to their content without getting the proper context. That's where donotlink comes in. With donotlink.com, you can link to sites without giving them "Google juice". Using donotlink.com instead of linking to questionable websites directly will prevent your links from improving these websites' position in search engines."

Some neat tricks - or extended functionality.

Skills & competences for working on the web

An open source tool to make sure you know who you are talking to online. Likely to be seen as too geeky by most.

Alec describes finding that his image is used in multiple online dating scams and suggests digital literacy is a necessary tool to mitigate.

A quick guide with links to JISC work on developing student digital literacies.

UBC page on digital identity and your online self

"The project funds student partnerships in various disciplines to develop online learning resources using specialist software. This complements our partnership with Jisc on their Developing digital literacies project which aims to give students digital skills by encouraging HE curriculums to include digital elements."