Your online presence

Your digital information literacy

In this course you will use a number of information sources and technology tools to support your learning and for interaction with the facilitators and other learners.

You will need to apply skills for using:

• this WikiEducator site to access reading materials and (optionally) to collaborate with others;
• Internet-based tools to search for and manage information sources that you will use in your inquiry and writing;
• a blog for written work;
• asynchronous and synchronous (real time) tools for interacting with others.

Please note

Make sure you also check out the digital tools and resources in the section on Managing information.

Activity

Take a few minutes to assess your digital literacy using the Atomic Learning Framework. Make sure you ask to have the result emailed to you. Reflect on the result - the most important area for this course is the first row (Text). By the end of this course you will probably be working at level 4 in each of the five columns!

Your personal blog

You will be using a web-based eportfolio for your portfolio activities. This means that submitting your assessment portfolio will not be done by using 'snail mail' or email, but by providing the course co-ordinator with access to your eportfolio.

Please note

Make sure you have a clear understanding of what's required for your Assessment portfolio.

If you would also like to use a blog as a learning journal, you should set one up now:

Activity

Create an account at Blogger Work through the Blogger Getting Started Guide If you wish to share your blog, post the link on the Moodle discussion forum: Your electronic portfolio. Watch the 8 minute video How to Add Gadgets/Widgets to Blogger to learn how to set up an email subscription to your blog and add other cool tools. This will save your classmates time as they will get an email alert when you make a new post, and you wont have to keep reminding them on the Moodle forum. If this was new to you, congratulations! You are now an educational blogger.

WikiEducator account (optional)

You don't need an account to read and browse materials here on WikiEducator. However, you do need an account if you wish to create or edit pages. To set up an account:

Activity

Click on Create an account at the WikiEducator Login page If you are new to WikiEducator, read the About page You might also like to check out the Using WikiEducator page

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