Digital Literacy an important factor in Career Success

The University of Derby’s International Centre for Guidance Studies (iCeGS) have produced a report entitled ‘Careering through the Web‘ which explores the potential of web technologies for career development and support services. Inadequate ‘digital literacy’ could jeopardise your future career prospects Will ‘Digital Literacy’ Determine Your Future Career Success? The report acknowledges the accelerating influence [...]

CROSSING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE: a basic kit for the adult learner

EGSA would like to introduce the Media Literacy blog’s first guest blogger: Anne Peoples, University of Ulster: Now seems a good moment to reconsider the Digital Divide and how to equip adult learners to get across it.  We’re led to believe that the Divide is geographical and/ or generational but is this really the case? [...]

Microsoft College of the Future project

The Microsoft College of the Future project was jointly managed and developed by LSDA NI, Microsoft, and Southern Regional College.  The aim was to introduce lecturing staff to tools that would help with students’ learning. The project used Microsoft’s Live@Edu software, which is a collection of Web 2.0 tools that enable tutor lead collaboration within [...]

Using Social Media to Enhance Your Information Service

The Association of Information Managers (AIM) held an excellent seminar on Social Media after their AGM last Friday (12 Feb).  The seminar, entitled “Using Social Media to Enhance Your Information Service”, was delivered by Anne Peoples, tutor in Library and Information Management at the University of Ulster. The presentation focused on how to strategically engage [...]

Web 2.0 in teaching and learning

Web 2.0 and social media are everywhere on the internet and the idea of sharing and collaborating now seems to be the norm.  We know it is used extensively by media literate internet users; is constantly in the news; and has all sizes of organisations scrambling to embrace it as a means of connecting with [...]

10 Rules for Social Media in Corporate Communication

The Quadriga University of Applied Sciences are organising a conference in Amsterdam on the 22/23 Oct on Web 2.0 and social media.  The conference entitled ‘Online Communication: Decoding the Digital Revolution – Trends and Tools in Corporate Communication’ will showcase the necessary toolkit to deal with online communication methods and social media. Probably most of [...]

Ofcom Poll: What do you think of blogs?

Ofcom are currently running a poll to capture your view on blogging. (What is blogging?) The Poll Question: What do you think of blogs? Are they: The way forward for journalism Hit and miss – some are great, some less so Self-opinionated, amateurish twaddle To vote, you can find the poll on the lower right [...]

Twittering Adult Learning

A recent survey reports that 40% of all tweets are “pointless babble” and that only 8.7% of messages have some form of value.  Well we found one of those useful messages on NIACE Dysgu Cymru’s twitter page: http://twitter.com/NIACEDC. They have created a great fun video promoting adult learning.

More tweets

Social Media and in particular Twitter is certainly becoming very popular. This week we read that Labour have given Kerry McCarthy MP the job of improving their presence in social media sites such as facebook and twitter.  She will train MPs in the use of these tools and promote best practice. The BBC have quoted [...]

Civil Servants encouraged to use twitter

A twitter template strategy has been created by Neil Williams, of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), to encourage government departments to embrace the microblogging site as a means to improve communication. The template strategy is a good read if you’re thinking about twittering on behalf of your organisation. Read the original post [...]