What is digital literacy?
What is it and why is it important for your studies, life and future employment?
Understand the web
Find out about more about how the web works and it's impact on you
Manage your online identity
Find out about how to manage your online identity
Digital wellbeing
Steps to digital wellbeing
Top Tips
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You can’t Google your way to a degree – but it can help you, if used intelligently.
Try new technologies and resources
See Tools, Apps, Books and Sites (TABS) for suggestions.
Library subject guides
Signpost you to important online resources.
Be selective and critical of what you find
Consider what is useful and relevant, avoid what is misleading or lacking credibility. This takes practice. See:
Copyright
Understand when copyright applies – always acknowledge sources
Build your networks
As well as tutors, students and support services, online help and forums can be valuable sources of information.
Learn ways to build a positive profile
Employers will look at it.
Be safe and respectful
Think about your personal and professional reputation when you are online.
Resources
Resources
This is why we can't have nice things: mapping the relationship
Mapping the relationship between online trolling and mainstream culture
Linked In
Linked In is the world's largest professsional networking site.
Mendeley
Mendeley is a free reference management tool and academic social networking tool. It works with any browser and comes in a desktop or mobile version.
Creative Commons
Creative Commons enables you to search for images and other data that you can legally share, use and edit.