Slides and recording from Catherine Cronin now available

The slides and recording from today’s webinar on critical digital literacies, data literacies and open practice, given by Catherine Cronin are now available. I was really thrilled that Catherine agreed to give our final webinar in the series, because of how important her work on open educational practices has been. Catherine and I have a lot of shared interests and she is going to be Co-Chair of the OER19 Conference, which is taking place in Galway Ireland in April. I will be seeing her then, as I have had a paper accepted to discuss my experiences of running this module, and I am delighted that three of my webinar presenters, Chris, Dave and Lorna are hoping to join me to share their reflections.

The slides, a recording and a set of resources from Catherine are available. Thank you to everyone who joined the recording. We did have a couple of technical issues, with Catherine not being able to hear me, so we used the chat box. It just goes to show that there is no such thing as digital competence, even for those of us who think we are fairly good at this stuff! And Catherine’s advice at the end of our chat with me, was you just have to keep dancing! I hope you’ve all enjoyed these webinars and this one is a real treat! Thank you to all my webinar presenters – there is now a full list of them on the webinar page.

Webinar now available: an introduction to copyright literacy

This morning was the first webinar for Digital Literacies and Open Practice and I was delighted to be joined by my co-researcher and good friend Chris Morrison, who is the Copyright, Software Licensing and IS Policy Manager at the University of Kent. The recording and slides are now available. Chris recently published a chapter on copyright literacy in the book Digital Literacy Unpacked, edited by Jo Parker and Katharine Reedy and published by Facet Publishing.

Chris provided an excellent overview of what copyright literacy is, how it relates to digital literacy and open practice and highlighted some of the work we’ve done in this area. He highlighted the resources on the Copyright Literacy website as well as recommending the site Copyrightuser.org. Chris also answered questions from participants on a range of topics.

The next webinar will be on Thursday 8th November at 3.30pm and will be led by Lorna Campbell from the University of Edinburgh. I’ll post more about the next webinar soon.