A fabulous 'toon' Wendy!
Hopefully we all feel a lot less like we are swimming upstream than we were at the beginning!
Thanks for summing our course up so neatly. Good luck with the next stage.
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The Digital citizenship: using technology appropriately website has recently published a post on the nine elements of digital citizenship. Each element is described in detail on the site. The elements include:
Digital etiquetteDigital communicationDigital literacyDigital accessDigital commerceDigital lawDigital rights and responsibilitiesDigital health and well-beingDigital security
This game is hugely popular with students coming into the library. I've had some great conversations with students about it. They like that swearing is banned, and that offenders will be banned from the game for a certain amount of time. A bit concerned, though, that someone posing as a younger person could sign in and socialise with young students.
Author Tristan Bancks has developed a free Story Scrapbook app, which helps students plan their writing ideas. It's in beta at the moment but it's worth a play.
We connect people to knowledge. We bring people together with the intellectual content of the past and present so that new knowledge can be created. We provide the ways and means for people to find entertainment and solace and enlightenment and joy and delight in the intellectual, scientific and creative work of other people. This is what we have always been about. [7]
Purpose:
This lecture, reflecting on future roles, posits the potential dawning of a "great age of librarians," if librarians make the conceptual shift of focusing on their own skills and activities rather than on their libraries.