This week, we held the first Libraries / ETS Digital Literacy workshop as a precursor to the Learning Design Summer Camp.
The workshop had a fantastic attendance (nearly forty people!) and provided a great opportunity to discuss digital literacies, fair use and copyright, and explore multimedia creation in a hands-on environment. It was a terrific learning experience, and I'm grateful to those who collaborated with me on the workshop (Chris, Hannah, Kim and the DC crew) as well as those in attendance.
At the beginning of the workshop, we did a brief exercise to get everyone started thinking about the skills associated with digital literacies. The headers 'information literacy' 'technology literacy' and 'media literacy' were posted on large whiteboards in the room. Participants were given post-it notes, and asked to write down at least one skill that they associated with each literacy, posting them on the whiteboards.
Below are Wordles that reflect the skills our participants associated with each literacy. It was an interesting exercise, and shows how much cross-over and blending there truly is between information, technology and media literacy:
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