91勛圖厙 College's Digital Competencies Program helps students build the digital skills and critical perspectives on technology needed for success in the digital age.
Happy February, Mawrterswith the madness of WTF Week nearing, nows the perfect time to dive into some digital competencies!
This month were going to look at 2.2: Digital writing and publishing. This competency focuses on professionally and effectively communicating using digital word processing and web publishing software. Depending on your major and interests, this may involve learning:
- To typeset mathematical or scientific formulae (e.g., with LaTeX).
- To type and proof documents in multiple languages.
- To provide references in footnotes or endnotes.
- To embed, format and caption images, charts, or tables.
- To give credit to others creative work and original ideas, through attribution conventions appropriate for digital media.
Whether adding footnotes to your ridiculously long paper or using Wordpress to capture your study abroad experience, odds are youve been using 2.2 without even knowing it!
2.2 Digital Competency IRL Applications
Of course, this competency doesnt just apply to personal blogs or websitesits also practiced via social media. Using any range of digital publishing or social media tools, such as blogs, wikis, WordPress, Twitter, etc. count towards practicing this competency.
Here are some LITS tips to make sure that your accounts are reflecting your best self:
- Set your accounts to private when possible.
- If that doesnt work for you, only post/reblog things that youre comfortable with being publiceven if you delete something, theres always a chance that someone took a screenshot of it before you got the chance.
- When reblogging/posting/tweeting someones work, dont forget to give the creator credit!
- Practice mindful posting: if you wouldnt be comfortable with your employer/mom reading it, then you shouldnt post it.
Contest Time! Create Your Own Website
Its your turn! Put this competency in action and show us what youve got. Create your own Wordpress blog and sign up to in our "Finding the LITSEST Domain contest! The deadline to submit your form is February 15th, so mark your calendars!
Heres the nitty gritty:
- You MUST be a current student!
- Your domain MUST be hosted on digital.brynmawr.edu.
- You can only enter a website that YOU own.
- First Prize wins SEPTA tickets.
- ! Submissions will only be accepted through this form.
To learn how to use Domain of Ones Own to create your website check out our or .
Upcoming Events
From Tech Talks taking place in Old Library discussing ways WeVideo can be used to promote digital storytelling to the new Tempermental Prints exhibition coming to Canaday, we have numerous thrilling LITS events planned for March! For more info, see the LITS calendar.
Students who have registered for the exciting , co-hosted by LILAC and LITS, will be developing this competency and 2.3 Audiovisual Analysis and Production and meeting alums who create digital narratives professionally over Spring Break.