Digital Literacy Team Discussion

[Arthur Oglesby]

Digital Literacy OLDSMOOC Cloudscape

This is my first experience at using many of these tools, so I appreciate help and suggestions.

For twitter hash tags I looked at #diglit and #digilit. Any others?

For permissions I think I might need e-mail addresses (which I don't have). Help?

I started a Digital Literacy Mindmeister map, which I guess I will make open to anyone. I'm afraid of it disappearing (backups?)

Digital Literacy is MASSIVE so teams that want to claim a smaller niche within might develop that area (Digital Identity, Video Production, Understand Computers Hardware).

[Arthur Oglesby]

Here is another link to the Digital Literacy Mindmeister.

I often can't figure out how to get to it, cannot get past the password prompt.

I resort to going to http://www.mindmeister.com, sign  in, then choose the Digital Literacy map.

[Clem]

Hi Arthur, 

I follow #jiscdiglit .  I have also found 'The 8 Elements of Digital Literacies' (Belshaw-2012) a useful framework for considering learning design.

No problem with your link to the Mindmeister map, took me straight there :)

- Clem

Belshaw D (2012) The Never Ending Thesis, 21 March (online) http://neverendingthesis.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

[Jane Challinor]

Hi Arthur

I have added a cloud to your cloudscape - as you suggested, a subset on digital identity and social media. I too am new to these tools and unsure as to netiquette here, so forgive me if I have posted in the wrong place. I will recommend the cloudscape to others who have been discussing this theme.

Not sure what happens next, but at least we have made a start!

Jane

[Arthur Oglesby]

Hi Jane,

I feel that how t establish a Digital Identity is important.

I bookmarked a post at Wired titled A Domain of One's Own.

As part of the first-year orientation, each student would pick a domain name. Over the course of the first year, in a set of lab seminars facilitated by instructional technologists, librarians, and faculty advisors from across the curriculum, students would build out their digital presences in an environment made of the medium of the web itself.

They would play with wikis and blogs; they would tinker and begin to assemble a platform to support their publishing, their archiving, their importing and exporting, their internal and external information connections. They would become, in myriad small but important ways, system administrators for their own digital lives. In short, students would build a personal cyberinfrastructure, one they would continue to modify and extend throughout their college career — and beyond.

In building that personal cyberinfrastructure, students not only would acquire crucial technical skills for their digital lives but also would engage in work that provides richly teachable moments ranging from multimodal writing to information science, knowledge management, bibliographic instruction, and social networking.

I really like the concept of individuals broadcasting their work via RSS so that others can pull that info to embed within a larger work.

Dave Winer, the "inventor" of RSS, is working on a "World Outline" tool that is still being developed. I am anxious to try it out. Everyone's data is totally theirs (on their own server) but it embeds into the proper place within a World Wide Data Outline.

[Catherine El-Bez]

Hi Clem. Hi Arthur,
Thank you for your interesting links.
I've created a scoop it for our team. If you consider that It could be useful then you could add the link to our cloudscape.
http://www.scoop.it/t/digital-literacy-oldsmooc

Catherine