Social Media for Busy People: 5 Tips to Speed Things Up
Let’s face it, not everyone can spend hours every day in front of a social media dashboard sharing content and engaging with followers. You’re often too busy to spend the time you’d like staying connected with your online community. But you know it’s an important part of your marketing, sales, HR, support, or other crucial business efforts. 1. We all have certain people that we can trust for great content and insight. To be successful on social media with limited time, filter out these important groups from the rest of the noise. Learn how to create and use Twitter lists. 2. If you’re too busy to respond to every message or mention of your company during the day, filtering your streams by Klout score is a great way to filter out the most influential people talking about you. Learn how to filter by Klout. 3. You’re busy during the day, but the majority of your social media messages can be scheduled in advance. Learn more about using the Hootlet. 4. 5. Learn more about repurposing content.
H of Lords report on digital skills
Recommendations The report, entitled "Make or Break: The UK's Digital Future", urges the incoming Government to seize the opportunity to secure the UK’s place as a global digital leader by, among other things: making digital literacy a core subject at school, alongside English and Maths; viewing the internet as important as a utility, accessible to all; andputting a single ‘Digital Agenda’ at the heart of Government. The report also noted that there are certain sectors of society, and UK regions, falling behind at great cost to the economy; and that industry has a vital role to play in developing the right skills in the workplace, in further and higher education, and in schools. The report also found that there is a distinct lack of Government coordination on digital initiatives – the current digital 'activity' within Government includes four Government Ministers, a Taskforce, a Committee, and a Unit. Committee Chairman Call for action The economy -millions of jobs are at risk of automation.
2011 e-learning tools
Yesterday, I finalised the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2011 list. In the last few days of voting there was a surge of contributions (both online and by email) that brought the number of contributions to 531. Many thanks to everyone who took the time to share their Top 10 Tools and help me compile this, the 5th annual survey of learning tools. The final list and presentation is available in full on this page HERE, but below I embed the presentation that I have created that is also available on Slideshare. This year as for the last couple of years, the #1 tool is Twitter. The list is dominated once again by free, online social tools - and proprietary content development tools continue to decline.The top three tools – Twitter, YouTube and Google Docs – retain their positions from 2010.Other tools have moved up the list since 2010. If you are interested in a more detailed view of the movement of the tools on the list, take a look at the Winners & Losers 2011.
Developing digital literacies
Digital literacies are those capabilities which fit an individual for living, learning and working in a digital society. Digital literacy looks beyond functional IT skills to describe a richer set of digital behaviours, practices and identities. What it means to be digitally literate changes over time and across contexts, so digital literacies are essentially a set of academic and professional situated practices supported by diverse and changing technologies. Digital literacies encompasses a range of other capabilities represented here in a seven elements model: Digital literacy as a developmental process Literacy is about development so understanding digital literacy in this way is important; we acquire language and become increasingly proficient over time and eventually reach a level of fluency. Defining digital literacy in your context Background About this resource Further resources
UK Digital Skills Taskforce
Emerging Practice in a Digital Age
Download the publication1 See supplementary resources, including video clips, podcasts and detailed versions of the case studies2 The environment of further and higher education is changing in response to economic pressures, government policies and changing behaviours influenced by greater ownership of new and increasingly more powerful technologies. In turn, this is encouraging institutions to review key aspects of their provision and to reassess what is delivered, to whom and in what ways. The quality of the learning experience is still the prime consideration, but our understanding of what constitutes quality has grown to recognise the importance of aspects such as personalised learning and an increasing emphasis on learner satisfaction and preparing students for future employment. So what role does emerging practice in the use of technology to enhance learning play in responding to these key drivers for change and why do institutions need to nurture emerging practice?
The Never Ending Thesis
Go ON UK | Basic Digital Skills Definition
In the UK, 1 in 5 adults lack the following Basic Digital Skills. Want to know why? Take a look at what the common barriers to digital exclusion are. The Basic Digital Skills definition has been adopted to focus partner support and celebrate success. We have consulted widely with a range of stakeholders including academics at the London School of Economics (LSE), our Go ON UK board partners, Citizens Online, the London Business School and Tinder Foundation in the development of the Basic Digital Skills definition. These ‘Basic Digital Skills’ are used as a basic standard of literacy for all Go ON UK partners. To learn more about why, read our rationale behind the change. You are welcome to use our Basic Digital Skills definition and can download a static version of the table as a PDF or image (JPEG).
Grant 4/11 - Call for projects in developing digital literacies
JISC invites institutions to submit funding proposals for projects to support the development and implementation of institutional approaches to digital literacies across the entire workforce and including students. Total funding of up to £1,000,000 is available for 10 to 12 two year projects funded at up to £100,000 each. The deadline for proposals is 12 noon UK time on Wednesday, 8 June 2011. It is envisaged that bidders will be notified of the outcome of the evaluation process in the week commencing 4 July 2011. The successful projects will be expected to start work mid July 2011. The work is to be completed by 31 July 2013. Briefing event A briefing event was held online via Elluminate at 10 am on the 12th May 2011. Recording of briefing session1 – please note there were technical difficulties at the start of this session so please start the recording approximately 10 minutes into the session Powerpoint presentation2 (pdf) Eligibility
