Introduction session for Living and Working on the Web, Jan 2015

1. Living and Working on the Web
Lisa Harris and Olja Rastic-
Dulborough
#UOSM2008

2. About.me/lisa.harris
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3. Session Plan
• Introduction to Digital Literacy
• How the module works
http://blog.soton.ac.uk/uosm2008-2015
• Evaluating online information - exercise
• Satire by the Onion
• The latest from Erik Qualman
• Digital Literacy Conference
• Student Video: Living and Working on the Web

4. What technologies are referred to here?
“It will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls,
because they will not use their memories.“
(Socrates, 469-399BC)
“The modern world overwhelms people with data
and this is confusing and harmful to the mind”
(Conrad Gessner, 1565)
Technology will kill… (Eric Qualman)
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6. Digital Literacies at Southampton
• Raise awareness across the University
• Link Education and Research communities
• Run series of practical workshops
• Digital Literacies Annual Conference
• Student Digital Champions (Digichamps)
• DL Special Interest group – diverse membership
across all faculties and including Careers, Student
Services, Library
• Curriculum Innovation

7. 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”

8. “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.

9. Living and Working on the Web

10. 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

11. 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

12. Blogs: pulling it all together
• Use the blog framework as a central point pulling in your other social
media content:
http://kimberlyfenton.wordpress.com/category/uosm2008-2/
• 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

13. Exercise: accessing, storing and
evaluating online information
• Use this shared document to jot down your
ideas
• For more details, see the “evaluating online
information” link from the module blog

14. 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

15. Dare you Google yourself...?
@lisaharris #CIMbrandyou

16. Beware the “filter bubble”
• From https://www.google.com/settings/me you can
view what results other people see when searching for
your name, and what your own publicly visible Google
profile looks like.
• Entering your name directly into a Google search in
your own browser will NOT give you an accurate view
of how other people see these results.
• Google filters and personalises results according to
past search behaviour, so a search from your own
machine is likely to disproportionally favour your own
sites.

18. www.employadam.com
• The original video
• Why it works
• The follow up video

19. 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)

20. Web Science Institute
• The Web Science Institute brings together
world-leading multidisciplinary expertise to
tackle the most pressing global challenges
facing the World Wide Web and wider society
today.
• Funded PhD opportunities, F2F and online
events
– WSI Blog
– WSI website
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21. 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

22. Joining the Digichamps
• More information:
– Digichamps Blog
– Facebook Group
– What do the Digichamps do? (video)
• Digichamps help staff and students with educational
applications of new technologies, build professional online
profiles, and manage social media for live events.
• Students from all University Faculties & all levels of study
• Send a note to Lisa explaining why you would like to join
the Digichamps and highlighting the skills you offer / would
like to develop
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23. @lisaharris #CIMbrandyou

25. Thank you 
Questions?