Digital Literacy Resources for Waikato University Staff

RT @KevinLuong: Nearly 11% of 4-digit PINs are 1234, closely followed by 1111 (6%) and 0000 (1.9%). People are idiots. http://t.co/fCi ...

Digital literacy resource. Add to the Pacific North-West Tree Octopus resource.

"We overestimate technology in the short term and underestimate it in the long term-even when we know that we tend to do so. This long-cited axiom is playing out again in the case of social media."

useful info re strength of passwords

Article on sock-puppetry by an author. Relates to questions of digital identity and trust online.

"This page collates resources for conducting a baseline review of digital literacy at an institutional level, as carried out by the 12 institutional projects and 10 professional associations of the JISC Developing Digital Literacies (DDL) programme. These materials are freely available to other institutions and professional bodies for repurposing and reuse.   This page also collates findings from that baseline process. Although a wide range of institutions and professional bodies were involved, these findings are not necessarily generalisable to other institutions of further and higher education. There is no substitute for carrying out a local audit and building consensus for local recommendations."

SO you're not in suspense, they are Digital literacy, understanding affordances, and getting support - actually getting yourself involved so the support and learning comes easily.

Final reports from LLiDA

Dave White describes how genres are helping them understand digital literacies in the Visitors & Residents continuum.

Doug Belshaw explores the duality (or multiplicity) of digital literacy, of definitions.

Social Media for Academics - Collection of social media resources I've produced for Sociological Imagination, the LSE impact blog, the Warwick Research Exchange and the Digital Change GPP