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Digitally Ready

This project

	94% complete Funding period:July 2011 to July 2013 Source:		Organisations: University of Reading
	Tags: Developing Digital Literacies elearning

Related Projects

Builds on	Comments
DEVELOP	for BB enhancements, and using some of their widgets
See also	Comments
PriDE	highlighted in project plan
Digital Literacies in Transition - A Model for Transforming Graduate Attributes	highlighted in project plan
InStePP	highlighted in project plan
T-SPARC	some useful resources for use of video for evidence and reflection
Open University learning design initiative	some useful resources for use of video for evidence and reflection
The Exeter CASCADE Project	in programme cluster

Technologies

google calendar	for project management and sharing key dates, dissemination
MS Outlook	using email and calendar for project management and sharing key dates, dissemination
MS Project	using for project management
Microsoft Word	for project documentation
Google docs	some use for project documentation
Chili Project	trialling for project managment - open source, ticketing based system
Wordpress	Project blog (institutionally hosted)
Twitter	for dissemination and feedback, some automation used (have written some ruby code to do this
Doodle	for arranging cluster and project meetings
Facebook	thining about doing a facebook quiz for baselining activities
Twitpoll	considering for baselining poll - but concerned about lack of use by students of twitter
Drupal	Linksphere project networking site
Blackboard	main institutuional VLE, have adapted instituional questionnaire
SMS	would like to use for baselining but may not have the time/resources
HTML	for content creation ( also will provide paper based resources)
Javascript	may use to develop interactive resources - if time permits

Comments:

Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-11-09 14:16:35

Will add any suitable resources to JORUM and the Design Studio

Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-11-09 14:13:46

Will release content with CC licence (or similar for software)

Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-11-09 14:12:08

Exploring use of feedback widget and commenting widget from Develop project

Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-11-09 14:11:12

Building on BB enhancements and using some of the widgets from the Develop project.

Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-11-09 14:08:16

Still unsure about final format for materials produced, will probably be a mix of online and paper based resources.

Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-11-09 13:59:44

Thinking about creation of wizard for creating individual learning plans/individual baselining , but not sure if they will have time to develop. Will however try and spec a chat type AI system.

Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-11-09 13:54:28

Want to encourage empowerment of individual skills audits, and how to fill gaps.

Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-11-09 13:53:40

Recognise that baselining digital literacy skills very problematic as they vary so much depending on context.

Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-11-09 13:52:18

Have been able to do some accessibility changes to BB for baselining survey

Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-11-09 13:50:32

May use previous built social network from Linksphere project (VRE) programme

Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-11-09 13:45:59

Would like students union to try and get some recordings, but nothing has been formalised yet.

Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-11-09 13:40:43

Baselining will mainly be f2f interviews, hope to record some sound bites/videos, but not sure they have the time