Here’s our third post about the Information Literacy for Digital Engagement project. You can follow this and related work at Community, Knowledge, Connections, and via @Community_Knect.
The very first Scottish Community Councils Twitter Hour was hosted by the Improvement Service’s Community Council Project last Tuesday. It was a fun- and information-filled time, especially as I was tweeting from a late-running train, then a taxi, then my home mac.
There’s lots of information and links in the Storify – enjoy!
Here’s our second post about the Information Literacy for Digital Engagement project. You can follow this and related work at Community, Knowledge, Connections, and via @Community_Knect.
Here’s our first post about the Information Literacy for Digital Engagement project. You can follow this and related work at Community, Knowledge, Connections, and via @Community_Knect.
Here’s our introduction to the Information Literacy for Digital Engagement project. You can follow this and related work at Community, Knowledge, Connections, and via @Community_Knect.
… or, rather, tales of my doings to showcase some of the fine work my Napier colleagues are doing.
Hat-tip to Lindsay Jenkins for this presentation.
I’m delighted to be back at my desk in Edinburgh Napier University’s Centre for Social Informatics, starting a project called Information Literacy for Democratic Engagement (IL-DEM). This project will be reported via a new research blog, Community, Knowledge, Connections, and via Twitter (@Community_Knect). Watch these spaces!
It’s also worthwhile following my colleagues:
Well it’s time to leave Napier for 6 months to pursue other personal interests. I’ll be back in October to work on the IL-DEM project with Peter Cruickshank and Hazel Hall.
For now a huge thank-you to friends and colleagues in the School of Computing/IIDI, principally in the Centre for Social Informatics.
I’m leaving Napier for 6 months at the end of tomorrow to pursue some personal interests. However, it’s very reassuring to know that I have some work to come back to. I’ll be working with Peter Cruickshank and Hazel Hall, investigating levels of digital and information literacy within Scotland’s Community Council system in a project entitledInformation Literacy for Democratic Engagement (IL-DEM). The award has been granted by the CILIP Information Literacy Group.
Hazel has blogged about the project’s aims and objectives, so it only remains for me to say that I’m looking forward to venturing into a slightly different research focus, while still working on aspects of Scotland’s hyperlocal democracy.
There may be some different research methods too, thus increasing my research skills, although the work will centre on understanding how people learn to use technology away from conventional education. In that sense, the work is likely to of interest to anyone concerned with helping people who struggle to make the best of their personal IT.
So I’ll be working with great colleagues, on interesting and practically useful things. What’s not to like?
A brief interlude from my non-work life. I guess that we might encounter some local government manifestations on our travels.
Elly and I have been spinning at the wonderful LifesCycle for four years to help keep ourselves fit enough to enjoy exploring the world on bikes. We are going off on our adventures later this year, but we know we are incredibly lucky to have the time and the security to do that. LifesCycle has been a strong supporter of Mercy Corps and we would like to add a little bit to their support of people suffering around the world, particularly refugees. If you have two minutes, this video will give you a little bit of insight into the people Mercy Corps supports. Continue reading
Bruce's IT-ish world 
