Collaborative Communication
Have you ever set up a video chat? Started a blog? Written something with classmates online?
Developing this competency involves:
- Becoming familiar with and comfortable using a range of digital collaboration tools, such as file-sharing systems, collaborative editing and annotation tools, discussion forums, blogs, online chat, or web-conferencing.
- Learning how to effectively and conscientiously use these tools to work with others both synchronously and asynchronously.
- Developing critical perspectives and skills needed to co-create knowledge.
- Valuing user-generated content and evaluating contributions made by others.
Digital Writing and Publishing
Have you ever made a website? Formatted a complicated paper? Published anything online? (Social media counts!)
Developing this competency involves:
- Learning to effectively use digital word processing software to produce complex, professional, printed documents. 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.
- Becoming familiar with and comfortable using textual mark-up languages, such as HTML, Wiki Markup, Markdown, LaTeX, XML, and MathML.
- Learning to critically analyze and effectively communicate using digital-age textual formats, such as hyperlinking and non-linear narrative.
- Becoming familiar with and comfortable using a range of digital publishing or social media tools, such as blogs, wikis, WordPress, Twitter, etc.
- Learning how to identify the digital publishing or social media tool that is most appropriate to given audiences, topics, and content.
- Learning how to give credit to other’s creative work and original ideas, through attribution conventions appropriate for digital media.
Audiovisual Analysis and Production
If you’ve ever made a movie (or analyzed one for class), created a podcast, or told stories online, you’ve probably developed this competency.
Developing this competency involves:
- Learning and using a range of methodologies to critically analyze images, film, audio recordings, animations, and other audiovisual “texts” and how they are used.
- Learning to effectively communicate ideas using audiovisual media (podcasts, video, etc.) and techniques (e.g. digital story-telling).
- Becoming familiar with and comfortable using a range of tools for publishing and sharing digital audiovisual content, and learning to identify those most appropriate to given audiences, topics, and content.
- Learning to format and optimize audiovisual media for sharing via different print and digital platforms.
- Learning how to give credit to other’s creative work and original ideas using attribution conventions appropriate for audiovisual media.
Content on this page can be credited to Bryn Mawr College, “Bryn Mawr Digital Competencies Framework” (2016). Blended Learning Research and Open Educational Resources. 3.
https://repository.brynmawr.edu/oer/3
