The slides from the first workshop of the Student Ambassadors for Digital Literacy project 2014/15. The workshop covered introductions to the team and Ambassadors and explored how students searched for information
3. SADL: what’s in it for you
• Digital literacy skills
• Tea, coffee, cake, chocolate
• A chance to have a voice
• Vouchers
• PDAM statement (good for employability)
• Online Badges to display your skills
4. Expectations
• 4 workshops
– Intro to SADL and finding information,
– Research and reading practices,
– Managing and sharing information,
– Your digital identity and footprint
• Blogging and sharing activities between
sessions – peer support
• A chance to share ideas with students in other
departments
• Other opportunities…
5. Introductions
In pairs introduce: -
• Name and degree
• What annoys you most on social media?
• Can you find anything else about your partner
online they don’t tell you?
6. Being a digital ambassador: what does
it mean?
• Meet our Senior Ambassadors
• The Ambassador Handbook
• Facebook Group
• Moodle SADL course – you can edit!
7. What skills do you think are
useful to support your studies?
8. Definition of digital literacy
a. “the ‘savvyness’ that allows young people to participate
meaningfully and safely as digital technology becomes ever more
pervasive in society.”
b. “By digital literacy we mean those capabilities which fit an
individual for living, learning and working in a digital society; for
example, the skills to use digital tools to undertake academic
research, writing and critical thinking: as per personal development
planning: and as a way of showcasing achievements.”
c. “Digital and information literacies are the skills, knowledge and
understanding that underpin our ability to learn, undertake
research and to teach in a digital age. It is vital that LSE students
and staff develop critical, creative, discerning and safe practises
when engaging with information in the academic environment.”
9. Which definition of digital literacy do
you prefer?
A. The savvyness to
participate
meaningfully and
safely in society
B. Capabilities which fit
an individual in a
digital society
C. Skills, knowledge and
understand that
underpin learning
33% 33% 33%
Capabilities which fit an i...
Skills, knowledge and un...
The savvyness to particip...
10. Searching for information
Where do you currently
search for information if
you need to write an
essay? What steps do you
go though?
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11. Searching for information
Where do you currently
search for information if
you need to write an
essay? What steps do you
go though?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lookoutboy.jpg
What process do you go through when
you are looking for a recommendation
of a good film to watch?
12. Searching for an essay topic
• Why does gender inequality persist?
• Use Google, Google Scholar and Library Search
• Compare and contrast your search results
• Quality of results? Can you find statistics?
Articles?
13. Differences Between Google Scholar
and Library Search
• Coverage
• Type of materials
• Reliability of materials
• Search functions
14. How to search Google Scholar
• Try the advanced search
• Too many results? add extra search terms
• Not enough results? think of different terms
• Results too vague? try using “quote marks” to
search for phrases.
• Modify library links to show LSE content
15. How to use Library Search
• Search for words
• Use refining options
• Too many results? add extra search terms
• Not enough results? think of different search
terms
• Results too vague? try using “quote marks” to
search for phrases.
16. Keywords
Define topic
Identify
scope and
keywords
Structure
your search
Choose
information
sources
Review
your results
Perform
your search
17. Which is your favourite academic
search engine now?
A. Google
B. Google Scholar
C. Library Search
(Summon)
D. Somewhere else
25% 25% 25% 25%
Google
Google Scholar
Somewhere else
Library Search (Summon)
18. Blogging
• What is a blog
• Blogs as a information source
• Blogs as an academic source
• Do you blog?
• Are you following / reading any blogs?
• What makes a good blog?
19. Writing good blog posts
• Come up with a catchy title for the post
• Make your point early
• Include links (but not too many)
• Videos and images add nuance
– Embedding other content sends readers to your
blog too! But find copyright free content
• Tag and categorise your posts
• Think of your audience!
21. Blogging activity
• Write a post to go on the SADL blog
• 200 words on what annoys you on social media
and why
OR
• What you learnt in today’s workshop
• What are you expectations of SADL?
• Why is digital literacy important and how is it
relevant to LSE life?
22. Keep in touch
• You are digital literacy ambassadors
• Talk to your peers!
• Think about what have you learnt today
• We look forward to seeing you at the next
workshop
• Workshop 2: week 7 of term
Notes de l'éditeur
Jane
Need to keep the flow an pace going throughout
Keep it informal
Ensure that the students are contributing most
Jane
Very short introduction to project and participants– two way knowledge exchange (10 mins max). It’s very important this its punchy and acts as a sale pitch to explain to the students what they will get out of the project and why they should come back to the next workshop!
SADL aims
Create a Student Ambassadors Network to explore the potential of this network for peer support
Deliver four workshops for Student Ambassadors to improve their digital and information literacy abilities
Seek advice and opinions from student ambassadors to ensure existing and new digital and information literacy resources are fit for purpose
Share best practice on embedding digital and information literacies into the curriculum with the teaching and learning community at LSE.
Jane
Jane
In pairs:-
Each student introduces the other half of their pair to say their partner’s name, their degree, their year of study and shares something (e.g., what they are doing at the weekend, what they like to eat at 2am, what band they listened to when they were 10 etc.)
Jane
Continuing on (possibly still in pairs) – keep the pace going…
what skills (could be any skills) do you think are useful to support your studies – put the answers on post-it notes and bring them to the front of the room and start building clusters of skills
consider differences between Statistics and Social Policy students
Consider which skills are digital literacy, which are other literacies
Use post it notes to put up on whiteboard (15 minutes)
Or Wallwisher / Padlet: http://padlet.com/wall/7m0p540zbi
Using post-its organise and define the skills and show how these skills will be covered by the project (10 minutes).
[Use post it notes to put up or Wallwisher/Padlet: http://padlet.com/wall/7m0p540zbi]
Which of these do you think are digital literacy skills?
Jane
Which of these these definitions do you like best?
a.) Futurelab
b.) JISC
c.) TLAC
Ellen
Where do you currently search for information if you need to write an essay? What about to get a recommendation about a good film to see?
Pair work – 5 minutes to discuss and then feed back
Good places to search?
Ellen
Where do you currently search for information if you need to write an essay? What about to get a recommendation about a good film to see?
Pair work – 5 minutes to discuss and then feed back
Good places to search?
Compare running a search in both using laptops?
What are the differences in what they find? Feedback and group discussion (15 mins)
Jane
Demo and show 4 little tricks
Ellen
And then demo the search in both?
Need a good search!
Ellen
Ellen
Jane
Briefly introduce blogging and its benefits in academic studies
Ask the what blogs they read – for personal and studies?
What makes a good blog?
Over to you to blog about today
Arun
Briefly introduce blogging and its benefits in academic studies
Ask the what blogs they read – for personal and studies?
What makes a good blog?
Over to you to blog about today
