Computer Literacy Resources

Moved from Computer Literacy Resources for Teaching

Vision
To create a library of links and learning resources for people to use to develop computer, Internet and media literacies.

Objective
Following this wiki development structure we aim to develop a list of discrete learning objectives, each with their own page of detailed objectives and then subpages (child pages) of resource lists and learning and assessment activities to suite a variety of teaching and learning styles and environments.

Computer Literacy Categories
Following are NZQA units we could use as a basis, but we will focus on the elements within these to produce "tip sheets".

Foundational Computer Literacy (Access)

 * Knowledge of a personal computer system
 * Navigate within the Windows environment
 * Operate a word processor (111)
 * Creating and Managing Files (12884)
 * Sending & receiving emails (5491 - part of)
 * Install software
 * Download Acrobat Reader
 * Download Google Talk
 * Download Open Office
 * Download skype


 * Connect to and surf the internet
 * Printing (OU Tip 8)
 * Logging into the Otago Polytechnic Network
 * Using Windows Live

Intermediate Computer Literacy (Interpret)

 * Learning Management Systems
 * What is a Learning Management System
 * Using Moodle
 * Using Blackboard


 * Online Communication
 * Communicating effectively using text-based media
 * Netiquette
 * Autoforwarding emails


 * Using email groups & discussion boards (5941)
 * What is an email group?
 * Google Groups help forum
 * Changing Your Settings
 * Making a post
 * Making sense of threaded discussions
 * Posting an avatar
 * Managing subscriptions to an email group
 * Netiquette


 * Synchronous Communication Tools
 * Skype
 * Skypecast
 * MSN chat
 * gtalk


 * What is a blog?
 * What is a wiki?
 * Web conferencing
 * What is web conferencing?
 * Using Elluminate


 * What are virtual worlds?
 * Use a scanner (5962)

Advanced Computer Literacy (Create)

 * creating a screen recording
 * Adding media to documents (12885) (pictures, graphics, video, audio, tables) (OU tipsheet 15)
 * Producing graphics and illustrations (5939)
 * Create and use a spreadsheet (2784)
 * Producing slideshows (5946)
 * Introduction to creating digital audio, video and images
 * Digital image manipulation (photoshop, ...)
 * Writing a Compact Disk (CD)


 * Digital Information Literacy
 * Adding media to a website (15168)
 * Sharing images, video, audio and other files online
 * Use social bookmarking to store and retrieve information


 * Use RSS to store and retrieve information
 * Create and maintain a basic weblog
 * Work cooperatively using workgroup computer software
 * Using wikis
 * copyright of digital works
 * Video (Creating a video, editing a video, compressing a video, publishing a video online)
 * Audio (Creating audio recordings, editing, compressing and publishing)
 * Images (Creating, editing and publishing)
 * Slide presentations (How to use Ppt or OOPresentation, how to create audio for a presentation, how to publish it)
 * Social Networking Sites (what are they, how they work, how to use them for learning)
 * Second Life (what is it, how to use it, where are the educational resources in it?)
 * Publishing (InDesign, Illustrator)

Requests for development (please add your requests to this list)

 * Typing skills --David McQuillan 20:54, 2 November 2007 (CET)

Resource repositories
After the above categories and the topics within them have been resolved use this list of resource repositories to find freely available resources that assist in support. They will either seerve as examples and scripts to our own developments, or we will negotiate copyright and use them as they are.


 * Youtube.com
 * Google video
 * Blip.tv
 * Archive.org
 * Ourmedia.org
 * Wikipedia
 * Wikimedia commons
 * Yahoo video
 * Podomatic
 * Odeo
 * Slideshare.net
 * Google presentation
 * Flickr

more: http://del.icio.us/leighblackall/OpenCourseWare

Contributors

 * Helen Lindsay
 * David McQuillan
 * Leigh Blackall

Sarah Stewart