Living and Working on the Web

Lisa Harris, Olja Rastic-Dulborough and Cristina Costa

#UOSM2008

Session Plan

• How the module works • Introduction to Digital Literacy• http://todaysmeet.com/introworkshop - please

leave questions/comments on here during the session

• Satire by the Onion • Digital Literacy Conference• Student Video: Living and Working on the Web

What technologies are being discussed here?

• “The modern world overwhelms people with data and this is confusing and harmful to the mind” (Conrad Gessner, 1565)

• “It will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories.“ (Socrates, 469-399BC)

• “It socially isolates readers and detracts from the spiritually uplifting group practice of getting news from the pulpit” (Malesherbes, 1787)

• “It might hurt radio, conversation, reading, and the patterns of family living and result in the further vulgarisation of American culture“ (Ellen Wartella, 1962)

• “It’s making us stupid” (Nicholas Carr, 2008)

Digital Literacies at Southampton

• Raise awareness across the University• Benchmark University Digital Literacies activities • Link Education and Research communities• Run series of practical workshops • Digital Literacies Conference 2012 and 1013• Student Digital Literacies Champions • Develop DL Special Interest group – diverse

membership across all faculties and including Careers, Student Services, Library

• Curriculum Innovation

Curriculum Innovation: The rationale

“Traditionally academics view the world through the eyepiece of a single discipline. But the real world is not like that, it is by its very nature interdisciplinary and can only be deeply understood when viewed from multiple perspectives. ” Mark Cranshaw, Understanding Modern China

University policy is now directing us towards multidisciplinary research that:

1) feeds directly into teaching and 2) encourages student participation at all levels

Digital Literacy• “Digital literacy is the ability to locate, organise, understand,

evaluate, and analyse information using digital technology. It involves a working knowledge of current tools and an understanding of how they can be used”

• “The active management of online activities such as collaboration, networking , content creation and curation in order to “stand out from the crowd” in today’s job market”

• “an ability to respond positively to change”• Social media revolution 2013 (Eric Qualman, 3 mins)

“The new media environment can be disruptive to our current teaching methods and philosophies. As we increasingly move toward an environment of instant and infinite information, it becomes less important for students to know, memorize, or recall information and more important for them to be able to find, sort, analyze, share, discuss, critique, and create information and knowledge. They need to move from being simply knowledgeable to being knowledge-able.”

Wesch, M., 2011. From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-able: Building New Learning Environments for New Media Environments | UM Events | University of Michigan.

Living and Working on the Web

The reflective summary allows you to think about where you’ve come from and where you are now and how useful it might be for

you in the future - this is something you don’t get on other modules

My opinions have often been changed by what other people have put forward on the discussion board

One of the big benefits of studying online is the flexibility to fit my academic life around my professional life which has been really useful

No idea is lost - we can continue to share information and ideas online beyond the duration of a specific seminar

Successes

• Employability advantages• Raised awareness of digital literacy and blended

learning across University• Digitally proficient students can mentor less confident

colleagues • Active rather than passive learning • Flexibility of timing/location of learning for students

and tutors• Study recommendations were made between levels

and disciplines

Blogs: pulling it all together• Use the blog framework as a central point pulling in your other social

media content: Digital Economy Blog or to aggregate a series of blogs as per Multidisciplinary Research

• Tweets – Flickr – LinkedIn – Vimeo - Slideshare – Pinterest - Soundcloud - YouTube

• You can also embed other social media within individual blog posts• Video is increasingly important, especially authentic user generated

content• Provide sharing buttons • These activities provide a regular supply of “googlejuice” to the blog

Student Digital Champions: Flo Broderick

• Met at SXSC2 in October 2012• Took Digital Marketing and CI modules, learned

interviewing skills and video editing• Helped out in a big way at Digital Media Europe • Masterminded student contribution to

Digital Literacies Conference • Provided student perspective on our research into

online learning MOOCs• Visited Italy to carry out MOOC filming in Portus• Now in Madrid working for Telefonica Digital

Goo.gle [goo-guh l]verb, Goo.gled, Goo.gling( often lowercase ) to search the Internet for information about (a person, topic, etc.): We googled the new applicant to check her background.

@lisaharris #CIMbrandyou

Dare you Google yourself...?

www.employadam.com

• The original video• Why it works• The follow up video

The Future of You

“Welcome to a new era of work, where your future depends on being a signal in the noisy universe of human capital. In order to achieve this, you will need to master three things: self-branding, entrepreneurship, and hyperconnectivity.” By Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, in the HBR blog

Using social media to get a job

• Connect (LinkedIn, FB, Twitter)• Collaborate (Skype, Dropbox, Google Drive)• Create (Wordpress, Soundcloud, Pinterest,

YouTube/Vimeo) • Curate (ScoopIt, Delicious, Slideshare)

@lisaharris #CIMbrandyou

Finding me online

https://www.vizify.com/lisa-harrishttp://digitaleconomy.soton.ac.uk/people/lisa-harris/

www.about.me/lisa.harriswww.twitter.com/lisaharriswww.linkedin.com/in/lisajaneharrishttp://www.slideshare.net/lisaharrishttp://lisaharrismarketing.com

Thank you

Questions?