Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Back Again
Wow great to see that some people have read my blog. A little more about me. I'm a learning adviser and I work with students across the disciplines and levels at the University of Waikato. It is a really interesting and varied role as I meet students one-to-one, present workshops and create on-line learning development opportunities. Our purpose is to assist students increase their academic literacy skills. I think "being along for the ride" on this course will extend my knowledge of how to engage with learners while online particularly as the visitors to our pages are transitional (ie no assessment or requirement to attend).
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How much in the way of 'digital literacy' is regarded as an academic skill, Trish?
ReplyDeleteThe new phrase is "academic literacies" and this indicates that it is not only textually based literacy but literacy includes numeracy and technology especially with the increasing number of fully on-line papers being offered to students. Unfortunately the focus on this aspect tends to be shared between the eLearning unit, the library and our learning development unit. I say unfortunately because I think we would benefit from and more unified approach. My work is developing online resources and workshops for self study on writing, study skills and reading and these are presented in Moodle. I use eXe as the authoring tool but am interested in knowing what applications or combinations of applications others use for similar purposes.
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