reporting on DIL project

I decided to keep a separate blog for the digital information literacy (DIL) project so here goes. We ran the first workshop last week with 13 participants. Four months to get to the action and then I was unable to make the first hour.

People have an impressive range of interests around digital information literacy - academic writing, podcasting, creating resources using screen capture software, blogging, 3D animation, Linux, video, interactive white boards. The challenge for us, as the action researchers and facilitators of the workshops, is how to facilitate all the different interests, bring together people with similar goals, and point people in the right direction to find the information they need.

I came into the workshop after Leigh had shown the group a video about the digital world in the future - YouTube - EPIC 2015. I have yet to watch it. After handing out the consent forms, it was time to move into the computer lab for the online survey. This took up most of the time left in the workshop. We told everyone about the email group DILOP which we will use for communicating with the group.

People were asked to do the following:

• Write down the digital information literacy issues you wish to address in the project and the things you would like to work on - maybe what you wrote on your expression of interest form;
• Write an outline of what happened in the first workshop - what you were shown, what you did, things you knew already, things you learned etc.
• List one or two goals of what you would like to do in the next workshop and in the project overall. Please bring an electronic copy of what you have written - email it to yourself or on a pen drive or save in a file on the network.
• You might also like to think about how you would like to record your progress in the project eg blog (http://blogger.com), electronic file (Word), web-based document such as Google docs http://docs.google.com/.