Over the last couple of days we have been meeting with the other projects in our ‘cluster’ funded by the JISC’s Developing Digital Literacies programme; Bath’s Professionalism in the Digital Environment (PriDE),Read More…
Vitae, the UK organisation championing the personal, professional and career development of doctoral researchers and research staff in higher education institutions and research institutes, is running Digital Researcher 2012: an innovative, thought-provoking oneRead More…
The BBC are, once again, championing greater computer literacy (http://www.bbchelloworld.co.uk/index.html). This is not quite the same as digital literacy, of course, but it does form one (advanced) part of it. If youRead More…
The Digitally Ready team recently invited staff and students to a workshop to explore and reflect on their own digital literacies, using a pyramid model developed by Beetham and Sharpe (2008). WeRead More…
Yesterday I was at a SNOW meeting. That’s Social Networking and Other Web2.0 Technologies group, for those who haven’t run across the (semi) acronym before. It is a good opportunity to findRead More…
This week the Guardian has launched a campaign to promote improved digital literacies (link). This was evidently timed to coincide with Michael Gove’s announcement that the Government are overhauling the provision ofRead More…
Thank you for your lovely letter. I am sorry to hear that you find it hard to find out what support is available. Santa has asked me to say that he thinksRead More…
Hi – Santa says thank you so much for using his more formal mode of address! Something the elves here have thought about occasionally is a system like a spam filter, butRead More…
Dear Kirsti, Thank you so much for your letter, which has some great requests in it. More time to use online resources (or indeed, more time for any number of priorities) isRead More…
Thank you for your interesting letter. I know that training colleagues can be a time consuming and reward-free task sometimes. If it isn’t part of your actual role, you need to beRead More…