What can’t you do online?
February 21, 2013 3 Comments
This is “me”
This Prezi is from Royal Holloway, University of London. A great resource for research students and undergrads alike. I’m sure you will like it and the funny video near the end 
I’m guess by now that everyone knows what Creative Commons Licenses are. The CC organisation gets involved in all sorts of things like the Open Data Hackathon earlier in February and the EasyBib Webinar on Thursday 21st. On the site the time says 4pm ET, for us that means 21:00 hrs (9pm). Even if you don’t join in do go and listen to everyone talking about the Open movement.
And now for something completely different If any of you are interested in Web Analytics, for example finding out more about your own footprint in Twitter or you want to do some research about networking/social media, you might like to have a look at some of these programmes. Some of them are aimed at commercial sites but that is no reason why they cannot prove useful to people in HE. Some are free – check them out:
- Open Courses on Web Analytics from University College Falmouth
- TwitSprout will collect information and create diagrams from Twitter and Facebook
- Netlytic will find and automatically analysis and discovery social networks from electronic communication such as emails, forums, blogs and chats.
- followerwonk will find out all about your own Twitter account
There are lots more but I think the above will give you some insight into the sort of thing that can be done
Finally something which I think is charming. It shows just how comfortable we are all becoming with technology, the children in this post are not just Digitally Literate they are Digitally Fluent
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Hi Tim. Many thanks, some good tips as always. Wondered if others had seen this discussion on students and interdisciplinary digital literacy (now that’s a mouthful!) – http://blog.cengage.com/?top_blog=addressing-interdisciplinary-digital-literacy
Thanks for the link to the video Paul – good to see others discussing the interdisciplinary aspects. The context is often forgotten about amidst all the chat on the content of Digital Literacy. People with an interest in this might want to look at a recorded webinar from Jisc Design Studio (http://jiscdesignstudio.pbworks.com/w/page/63597899/Current%20issues%20and%20approaches%20in%20developing%20digital%20literacy%20webinar ) on feedback from their Developing Digital Literacy programme. It’s an hour long but very good if you are interested in the *context* of Developing Digital Literacy.
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